Department of English

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Margaret Robinson

Associate Professor

Portrait of vegan scholar Dr. Margaret Robinson.
Department of English , Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

Email: mrobinson@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1360
Mailing Address: 
Room 3102, McCain Building 6135 University Avenue PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Decolonizing and Indigenizing ways of teaching
  • Representation of Indigenous people
  • Representation of sexual & gender minority people
  • Fanfiction
  • Queer theory
  • Popular culture

Education
BA (Saint Mary’s University)
MA, PhD (University of Toronto)

 

Remarks
Margaret Robinson is a bisexual and two-spirit scholar from Eski'kewaq, Nova Scotia, and a member of the Lennox Island First Nation. Her work examines the Indigenous New Wave, Mi’kmaw oral traditions, and the representation of Indigenous and of sexual and gender minority people in creative works, drawing on critical, postcolonial, and queer theories, intersectionality, and third wave feminism.
 

Selected Publications

  • Morisano, D., Robinson, M., Rush, B., & Linklater, R. (2024). Conducting research with Indigenous Peoples in Canada: ethical and policy considerations. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1214121. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1214121/full
  • Robinson, M., Hannam, B. (2022). Addressing Colonial Trauma Through Mi’kmaw Film. In: Indigenous Media Arts in Canada: Making, Caring, Sharing (pp. 118-143). E Winton & D Claxton (Ed.), Wilfrid Laurier University.
  • Robinson M (2020). Veganism and Mi'kmaq Legends. Reprint In: Meatsplaining: The Meat Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial (pp. 237-246). J Hannan (Ed.), Sydney University.
  • Robinson, M. (2020). Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: Hip Hop, Cultural Continuity and First Nations Suicidality. In: We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel (pp. 183-203). C Marsh & MV Campbell (Ed.), Routledge
  • Robinson M (2017). Mi’kmaw Stories in Research. In: Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy. M Battiste (Ed.) Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press, 56-68.

Selected Awards

  • Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John R. Evans Leadership Fund, Research Nova Scotia, Mi’kmaw Cultural Research Lab, 2021-2024, $180,767
  • Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reconciliation, Gender, & Identity. Canada Tri-Council, 2019-2023 (CRC-2019-00295; renewable), $500,000