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, edited by Warren Cariou, Deanna Reder, Lorena Fontaine, and Jordan Abel. Brush Education, 2025.
. By Deanna Reder. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2022.
by Michael Nest, Deanna Reder, Eric Ball. U of Regina P, 2020.
Eds. Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene Manuel. U of Manitoba P, 2019.
Eds. Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner and Gabrielle Hill. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2017.
Eds. Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016.
Eds. Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2010.

Co-edited, with Michelle Coupal, as guest editors, a Special Double Issue on 鈥淗ow We Teach Indigenous Literatures鈥� in Studies in American Indian Literature 34 (1-2): Spring-Summer 2022.
Co-edited, with Sophie McCall, the fiftieth anniversary special issue: Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies. Ariel: a Review of International English Studies 51 (2-3): June 2020

鈥淔irst Peoples, Indigeneity and Teaching Indigenous Writing in Canada鈥� with Margery Fee. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum, edited by Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee. Cambridge University Press Syndicate, 2023. 60-79.
鈥淭he People and the Text: An Inclusive Collection鈥� Collections Thinking: Ontologies, Agents, Communities with Margery Fee. Edited by Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, and Linda M. Morra. Routledge, 2023. 292-305. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003282303
鈥淔orensic Anthropology and Archaeology as Tools for Reconciliation in Investigations into Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential Schools鈥� with Katherine L. Nichols (first author), Eldon Yellowhorn, Deanna Reder, Emily Holland, Dongya Yang, John Albanese, Darian Kennedy, Elton Taylor, and Hugo F.V. Cardoso. Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples. Eds. Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach, and Adele Perry. McGill-Queens UP, 2021. 203-229.

鈥淔辞谤别飞辞谤诲鈥�. Unsettling Spirit: A Journey into Decolonization by Denise M. Nadeau. McGill-Queens UP, 2020. xi-xiv.
鈥淚ndigenous Autobiography in Canada: Recovering Intellectual Traditions.鈥� The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Oxford UP, 2016. 170-190.

鈥淎 Call to Teach Indigenous Literatures鈥� co-authored with co-editor Michelle Coupal. Studies in American Indian Literature 34:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022): ix-xxi
鈥淯sing Indigenous-Informed Close-Reading to Unlearn: Teaching Indigenous Perspectives of History in Literature.鈥� Studies in American Indian Literature 34:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022): 59-74, 245-250
鈥淚ndigenous and Postcolonial Studies: Tensions and Interrelationships, Creative and Critical Interventions鈥� with Sophie McCall. Ariel: a Review of International English Studies 51.2-3 (April-July 2020): 1-25
鈥淐onversations at the Crossroads: Indigenous and Black Writers Talk鈥� Edited by Sophie McCall, with David Chariandy, Karrmen Crey, Aisha Sasha John, Cecily Nicholson, Samantha Nock, Juliane Okot Bitek, Madeleine Reddon, Ariel: a Review of International English Studies 51.2-3 (April-July 2020): 57-82
with Alix Shield. Canadian Literature 237: 13-25, 184.
"Native American Autobiography: Connecting Separate Critical Conversations," Lifewriting Annual 4 (December 2015): 35-63

June 2, 2025 Indigenous Intellectual Traditions: Decolonizing Knowledge and Methods through Collaborative Thought and Action. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) and Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA), Toronto, Ontario.
June 18, 2022 - "芒cimisowina: Stories that Remember the Missing and Much-Missed." Indigenous Literary Studies Association, Gabriel Dumont Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
June 6, 2022 - "The People and the Text, Neglected Indigenous Works, and Making Relationship with Research." Digital Humanities Institute, virtual
Oct 29, 2020 - , University of British Columbia, Vancouver
May 30, 2019 - 鈥淭he Legacy of the Indigenous Literary Archive鈥�, Canadian Writing Centres Association, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver
March 12, 2019 - 鈥淪orting Libraries Out: Decolonizing Classification and Indigenizing Description鈥� with M茅tis Research Partner Treena Chambers, 911吃瓜, Vancouver
Feb. 15, 2019 - 鈥淩eading the Indigenous Archive鈥� for Developing Minds Through Reading and Writing: Practical Strategies for Critical Thinking in the Curriculum鈥�, 911吃瓜, Vancouver.

March 31, 2025 鈥淔rom Teaching Indigenous Literatures to Indigenizing the Curriculum鈥擲trategies We Have Used鈥�, with Sophie McCall, a webcast for ILSA.
March 20, 2021 鈥淚ndigenous Perspectives of History: Story as Repository鈥� Vancouver Institute Public Lecture.
Nov 20, 2020 - 鈥淧andemics in the So-Called New World鈥� 911吃瓜 Department of Humanities, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies and Institute for Humanities (remote presentation)
Nov 15, 2020 - 鈥攁 discussion about the recent American Quarterly Review Journal Publication and Indigenous writing (remote presentation)
Feb 6, 2020 - 鈥淭he Obligation of Stories: Missing Jim Brady and Abbie Halkett鈥� 911吃瓜 President鈥檚 Faculty Lecture, Vancouver, BC
March 2, 2019 - 鈥淩edefining the Indigenous Archive: the Bottom of a Lake as Text,鈥� Critical Nationalisms and Co-publics, Vancouver, BC
Oct. 17, 2018 - 鈥淟iterary Research Guided by Indigenous Protocols,鈥� presentation on The People and the Text with Margery Fee, Treena Chambers, and Alix Shield. Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Vancouver, BC
May 28, 2018 - On SSHRC project The People and the Text; invited by the Association of College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) and co-hosted by the Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA); Regina, Saskatchewan