Rubelise da Cunha
Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) and Coordinator of the Canadian Studies Centre (NEC-FURG). Her research focuses on Brazilian and Canadian Indigenous literatures and the theory of literary genres. She was a post-doctoral researcher (2008-2009) at Laurentian University, Canada, where she studied Canadian Indigenous theater. Her recent publications include Indigenous Narratives of the End and the Dream of Possible Futures in The Marrow Thieves (2019), by Cherie Dimaline (Abusões, 2024), The Unending Appetite for Stories: Genre Theory, Indigenous Theatre and Tomson Highway’s ‘Rez Cycle’ (Canadian Journal of Native Studies, v.1&2, 2009), The Trickster Wink: Storytelling and Resistance in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen (Ilha do Desterro (UFSC), v.1, 2009). With Eloína Prati dos Santos, she also edited the second volume of Perspectives on Amerindian Literature in Brazil, the United States and Canada (2007).
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