Dory Nason

PhD Ethnic Studies (UC Berkeley)

Dory Nason joined the First Nations Studies Program in August 2008. Dory comes by way of the University of California's Ethnic Studies Department at Berkeley. Specializing in Indigenous feminism and literature, Dory holds a joint position with the UBC Department of English.

Dory's Contact Info

Room: BUCH E-261, 1866 Main Mall
(604) 827-5688
dory.nason(at)ubc.ca

Dory's courses

For the winter session of 2011/12, Dory will be instructing the following courses:

Dory's brief biography

Dory Nason (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Anishinaabe and an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.  She currently holds a joint position with the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of English. Her areas of research include contemporary Indigenous Feminisms and related Native women’s intellectual history and literature.  She is currently at work on her book manuscript, Red Feminist Voices: Native Women’s Activist Literature. At UBC, Professor Nason teaches on the subjects of Native Literature and Criticism; Indigenous Theory and Research Methods; and Writing & Representation on Indigenous topics in advanced research.

Dory on Graduate Studies

Below is a video of Dory talking about her experience undertaking graduate studies.

This video was originally developed for the Aboriginal Transitions: Undergraduate to Graduate (AT:U2G) Project through the Indigenous Education Institute of Canada in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia.