Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
- mdumont@ualberta.ca
- Address
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3-27 Humanities Centre
11121 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
Poet, writer, and professor Marilyn Dumont.
She is grateful to live and work in the territory of her ancestors: the Cree/Métis: Dufresne/Vaness and Dumont/ Boudreau/ Poitras kinship lines. Marilyn earned her BA from the University of Alberta and MFA from the University of British Columbia. She freelanced for twenty years before taking on a professorship with the Faculty of Native Studies and the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta in 2016.
I have worked with students at the masters and doctorate level in the completion of creative theses. I am particularly interested in supervising students who are interested in studying Metis Literature, Indigenous women's poetry pre-1985, Indigenous women's poetry.
Book Awards:
Her first collection of poetry, A Really Good Brown Girl (1996), won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets. This collection is in its fifteenth printing and a classic of Brick Books. Other collections include green girl dreams Mountains (2001- winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for that year); that tongued belonging (2007), winner of the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year and Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year; and The Pemmican Eaters (2015), which won the 2016 Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award.
Other Awards
2018, awarded a Lifetime Membership from the League of Canadian Poets for her contributions to poetry in Canada.
2019 awarded the University of Alberta, Distinguished Alumni Award
2019, awarded the Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award.
Courses
ENGL 307 - Métis Literature
Studies of the contributions of Métis writers to the formation of their intellectual and community traditions. Prerequisite: 6 units of junior ENGL, or 3 units of junior ENGL and 3 units of junior WRS.
NS 280 - Selected Topics in Indigenous Studies
WRITE 392 - Intermediate Poetry
Lectures and workshops focusing on selected poetic technique and form. Prerequisite: WRITE 294 unless waived by Instructor; a minimum grade of B+ in the prerequisite course is strongly recommended.
WRITE 494 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
Prerequisite: WRITE 392 or WRITE 394 unless waived by Instructor; a minimum grade of B+ in the prerequisite course is strongly recommended.
WRITE 535 - Directed Creative Writing/Creative Research Project
Design and completion of an undergraduate project under the guidance of a member of the Department. The project is to be an original creative project judged by the Department to be the equivalent of a half-year creative writing course for 3 units, or a full-year creative writing course for 6 units. Prerequisite: successful completion of 6 units WRITE credits or the equivalent, with consent of Department and Instructor.
Scholarly Activities
Research - Metis Kinscapes
Featured Publications
South Side of a Kinless River
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ARC Poetry Magazine. 79 (Winter 2016):133
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Room. 40.1 Food
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ARC Poetry Magazine. 79 (Winter 2016):133
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Room. 40.1 Food
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