Malou Brouwer is a PhD candidate in Transnational and Comparative Literatures in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. Her PhD research combines author interviews with analysis of Indigenous women’s poetry to show how multilingual poetry contributes to resisting colonialism and encouraging decolonization across languages. She has published in Studies in American Indian Literatures, Transmotion, Alternative Francophone, and SFRA Review, among others and created a podcast episode for the Salon du Livre des Premières Nations. She teaches Indigenous literatures in English and French, Indigenous Studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies and world literature. She also works as French translator and has published creative work. Originally from the Netherlands, she now lives and works in Treaty 6 territory and Métis Nation Region 4 (Edmonton).
