The Canada-Us Border: Culture and Theory (Critical Insights in American Studies)

About the Author

David Stirrup is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Visuality and Visual Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Writing (Michigan State UP, 2020) and Louise Erdrich (Manchester University Press, 2010), and co-editor of Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary (Palgrave, 2012, w. James Mackay), Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2013, w. Gillian Roberts), and Enduring Critical Poses: Beyond Nation and History (SUNY Press, 2021, w. Gordon Henry, Jr. and Margaret Noodin). He is Co-Principal Investigator of Métis: a Global Indigenous People, funded by the AHRC (2023-2025, with Chris Andersen); Indigenous Knowledges: a Digital Residency Exchange and Best Practices Pilot, funded by the AHRC-NEH (2022-2023, with Jennifer Jenkins); Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain, funded by the AHRC (2017-2021, with Jacqueline Fear-Segal); and of the Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2012-2015, with Gillian Roberts). He is a founding editor of the open access journal of Contemporary Indigenous Literature, Transmotion. Jeffrey Orr is Associate Professor of Digital Communication at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include visual rhetoric, border studies and micro-rhetorical communication. His current research examines the rhetoric of governmental health communication, and public rhetoric pertaining to border policy on the Arctic.