Professor David Stirrup
About
My research interests centre on Native American and Canadian Aboriginal literature in all genres–fiction, poetry, memoir, and children’s writing—and Native North American visual art. I am particularly interested in the relationship between literary and artistic production and major legal, political, and theoretical debates over cultural and political sovereignty, indigeneity, modernity, and community. In addition, I am particularly focused currently on the relationship between the literary and and artistic production; in the intersection of politics and aesthetics; and in the legal, political, and theoretical debates over cultural and political sovereignty, indigeneity, and post-Imperial Britain’s responsibilities to the peoples it made treaties with during the colonial era. My interests extend to the rise of discourses of global indigeneity in forums such as the UN and the International Labour Organisation, and to comparative understandings and constructions of the indigenous in a variety of locations. My work to date has drawn on a wide variety of disciplines, including Indigenous Studies, literary theory, Cultural Anthropology, History, Border Studies, and Law Studies, and focuses on literature and art from c.1880 to the present.