Krista Collier-Jarvis - PhD
Dr. Collier-Jarvis is a member of the Mi’kmaw First Nation and an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Mount Saint Vincent University. She holds a BA honours from MSVU, as well as an MA and a PhD from ±«Óătv University. She is the Early Career Representation for the Indigenous Literary Studies Association, the Lead Investigator on the NSERC Promoscience-funded Two-Eyed Seeing Project in relation with L’nu communities across Mi’kma’ki, and a Research Affiliate with Thinking through the Museum. Upon completion of her doctorate, she has been offered a number of wonderful research opportunities. She participated in relational work with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., as well as the Wereldmuseum in Leiden, Netherlands. During these experiences, Collier-Jarvis engaged with the material culture of her L’nu ancestors and worked closely with museum staff and researchers on decolonial praxis. She received a postdoctoral Earth Scholarship from the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, which enabled her to spend a month travelling throughout Scotland, collaborating with doctoral researchers on multiple climate-based issues and solutions and gathering traditional Scottish folk horror. She has presented a number of conference papers as well as workshops and invited talks. Some highlights include discussing Indigenous comics and climate issues at Hal-Con and leading a reconciliation workshop with not-for-profit organizations dedicated to the wellbeing of newcomers. Chapters from her doctoral research are forthcoming in several books and journals, notably, within Global Indigenous Horror (2025), to which she is co-editing the follow-up collection Contemporary Indigenous Horror (2026/7) with Dr. Naomi Simone Borwein.
Recent publications/public presentations:
“Okanada”: Repositing Selves and Others in Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum. , edited by Naomi Simone Borwein, University Press of Mississippi, available for pre-order, 2025, pp. 54-89.
&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;“’Danger: Children at Play’: Uncanny Play in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.” Humanities: Gothic Adaptation: Intermedial and Intercultural Shape-Shifting; Vol. 12, no. 5, 2023, p. 90, .
“Beneath the Ice: Exploring the Qallupiluk.” Nighttide Magazine, 29 Dec. 2024, .
“Five Mi’kmaw Storytellers You Need to Know.” ±«Óătv Gazette, 27 Sept. 2024, .
"", Black and Indigenous Speaker Series, MSVU, Halifax, N.S, 2024