Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies. Founder, Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies.
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ALT Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our third roundtable of the day is on "Indigenous Horror on Turtle Island" and will feature Dr Krista Collier-Jarvis (Pictou Landing Mi'kmaw Nation)(Mount Saint Vincent University) and Tiffany Morris (Mi'kmaw). 📍Online 🗓️ 3rd July 2025, 15:30-17:00 BST Don't forget to sign up (for free!) using the QR code or the link in our bio ✨
ALT Krista Collier-Jarvis (she/her) is a member of the Mi’kmaw First Nation and an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Mount Saint Vincent University. She teaches American and Indigenous literatures, climate fiction, and film. She has published several articles and book chapters, including uncanny play in Pet Sematary, haunting back in Blood Quantum, endemicity in The Last of Us, and the rise of the rhizombie. She recently completed a two-week horror writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity under the mentorship of Shane Hawk where she worked on Indigenous horror. Krista is the co-lead on the Two-Eyed Seeing project and is the Early Career Representative for the Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Social media: @lnuonhorror (Twitter and Bsky) Photo cred: Krista Collier-Jarvis wearing a medallion made by local artist Crystin Edwards and gifted to Krista by Dr. Margaret Robinson on the day of her PhD defence. (Nick Pearce photos)
ALT Tiffany Morris (she/her) is an L’nu’skw (Mi’kmaw) writer from Nova Scotia. She is the author of the ecohorror novella Green Fuse Burning and the Elgin Award-winning horror poetry collection Elegies of Rotting Stars. Her work has appeared in the Indigenous horror anthology Never Whistle At Night, as well as in Nightmare Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, and Apex Magazine, among others. Her MA thesis, “The Apocalypse Will Not Be Colonized: Crisis, Monsters, and Futurism in Recent Indigenous Narratives” won the Acadia University Outstanding Masters Research Award in 2022. tiffanymorris.ca Bluesky: @tiffmorris Tiffany is pictured smiling and has red hair.
ALT Thanks to our funders British Association for American Studies, Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, and the University of Westminster!
