Sarah Henzi
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde
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Biography
Sarah Henzi (Ph.D., Université de Montréal; M.A. (fast-track), Université de Montréal; Licence ès Lettres, Université de Genève) is a settler scholar and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Literatures in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde at Université de Montréal. Prior to that, she was an FQRSC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia (2013-2014) and a Visiting Scholar at McGill University's Institute for the Study of Canada (2015-2016). She is Secretary of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA) and Assistant Editor for Francophone Writing for Canadian Literature.
Her research focuses on genres that are redefining and expanding upon what has been considered thus far as “literature” in the field of Indigenous Literary Studies: comic books, graphic novels, science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, film script, and erotica. Also, the prevalence of new media and of the audio-visual and digital worlds are providing exceptional entry points to the land and territories (whether spatial, discursive, aesthetic) that many artists and writers may no longer have access to. Her work also seeks to promote the Francophone literary and artistic works of Indigenous peoples in Quebec. Taken together, her research seeks to offer new ways of thinking about such interventions, without them being constrained to or by fictitious frontiers – national, generic, linguistic or institutional.
Research and teaching are, for Sarah Henzi, extensions/outgrowths/complements of one another; as such, she has an excellent teaching dossier, having taught as a Sessional Instructor/Lecturer in the Department of English, Concordia University (2016, 2017), in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde, Université de Montréal (2016), in the Department of First Nations Studies, Simon Fraser University (2014-2016), in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program, University of British Columbia (2015), in the Department of English, McGill University (2014), and in the Département d'études anglaises, Université de Montréal (2010, 2011, 2012). From 2013 to 2016, she also co-organized and taught the Graduate Summer School on Indigenous Literature and Film at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM). In 2017, she became its sole organizer and lecturer, the theme of which was (Re)Conciliation: Indigenous Perspectives.
Affiliations
- Membre – CRILCQ — Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture au Québec
- Membre – CELCP — Centre de recherche des études littéraires et culturelles sur la planétarité
Areas of Expertise
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Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
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Au-delà des deux solitudes dans le monde canadien des bandes dessinées : vers des mondes transmédiatiques (avec le numérique, l'animation, et le jeu vidéo)/Beyond the two solitudes in the Canadian world of comics. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2025 - 2027
Indigenous Literatures and Languages in the Americas: Translanguaging and Education in Global Contexts Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2022
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1. Monographies (traductrice et éditrice)
Dufour, Emanuelle. “Québec was born in my country!” A Diary of Encounters Between Indigenous and Québécois Peoples. Translation and Foreword by Sarah Henzi. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Indigenous Imaginings Series, 2025.
Kapesh, An Antane. Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu / I am a Damn Savage – Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? / What Have You Done to My Country? Translation and Critical Afterword by Sarah Henzi. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Indigenous Studies Series, 2020.
2. Monographies (co-éditrice)
Morra, Linda M. & Henzi, Sarah (eds.) On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to Canadian History, Literature and Identity. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021.
3. Chapitres de livres
Henzi, Sarah. “Irreconcilable ‘Myths of Métissage’: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism in Québec.” In 150 Years of Canada: Grappling with Diversity since 1867, Ursula Lehmkuhl and Elisabeth Tutschek (eds.) Waxmann Series, 2020: 159-178.
Henzi, Sarah. “Francophone Indigenous Writing in Québec.” In The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literatures, James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice (eds.) Oxford University Press (US), 2020 (paperback reprint): 655-674.
Henzi, Sarah. “Narratives of Indigenous Place(s), Space(s) and Citizenship(s).” In Indigenous Places and Colonial Spaces: The Politics of Intertwined Relations, Nicole Gombay and Marcela Palomino-Schalscha (eds.) Routledge Series on Space, Place and Politics, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018: 72-87.
Henzi, Sarah. “Betwixt and Between: Alternative Genres, Languages, and Indigeneity.” In Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures, Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra (eds.) Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016: 487-492.
Henzi, Sarah. “Indigenous Uncanniness: Windigo Revisited and Popular Culture.” In The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature, Deborah L. Madsen (ed.) Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2015: 469-479.
Henzi, Sarah. “Francophone Aboriginal Writing in Québec.” In The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literatures, James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice (eds.) Oxford University Press (US), 2014: 655-674.
4. Articles
Henzi, Sarah. “Creating Shki-kiin, New Worlds: The Possibilities and Sustainabilities of Indigenous SF.” Transmotion. Vol. 10, No. 1, 2024: 96-126.
Henzi, Sarah. “Indigenous Languages Matter.” Translation Studies. Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2024: 185-189.
Henzi, Sarah. “Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman).” Lettres québécoises [special issue, “Sœurs autochtones disparues”] No. 190, 2023: 16-19.
Henzi, Sarah. “Teaching Indigenous Literatures in French and in Translation.” Studies in American Indian Literatures [special issue, “How Do We Teach Indigenous Literatures”] Vol. 34, Nos. 1-2, Spring/Summer 2022: 149-162.
Henzi, Sarah. “‘And Whom We Have Become’: Indigenous Women’s Narratives of Redress in Québec.” Studies in Canadian Literature [special issue, “Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress”] Vol. 46, No. 2, 2021: 186-212.
Henzi, Sarah. “Entre orature et écriture: souveraineté, décolonisation et culture populaire autochtones.” Canadian Literature 230/231, Fall/Winter 2016/2017: 198-213.
Henzi, Sarah. “‘La grande blessure’: Legs du système des pensionnats dans l’écriture et le film autochtones au Québec.” Recherches amérindiennes au Québec. Vol. 46, Nos. 2-3, 2016: 177-183.
Henzi, Sarah. “‘A Necessary Antidote’: Graphic Novels, Comics, and Indigenous Writing.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. Vol. 43, Issue 1, March 2016: 23-38.
Henzi, Sarah. “Bodies, Sovereignties and Desire: Aboriginal Women’s Writing of Québec.” Québec Studies. Vol. 59, 2015: 85-106.
Henzi, Sarah. “Unveiling the Rhetorics of Apology: Strategies of Reappropriation in First Nations Literatures.” London Journal of Canadian Studies. Vol. 26, October 2011: 91-116.
Henzi, Sarah. “Stratégies de réappropriation dans les littératures des Premières Nations.” Studies in Canadian Literature. [Special Issue entitled “Indigeneity in Dialogue: Indigenous Literary Expression Across Linguistic Divides”] Vol. 35, No. 2, 2010: 76-94.
Henzi, Sarah. “Resistance and Transformation: Negotiating Political Rhetorics in First Nations Literatures.” Australasian Canadian Studies. Vol. 27, No. 1-2, 2009: 117-127.
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Entrevues invitées
“Translated graphic novel educates readers on reconciliation in Québec.” Interviewed by Casey McCarthy. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences News (SFU). July 15, 2025.
“La BD, outil de transmission et de rapprochement.” Interviewed by Marc Fournier. Culture et confiture - Radio Canada. May 10, 2025.
“Listening and Unlearning from the Heart.” Interviewed by Christine Lyons. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences News (SFU). October 22, 2021.
“Un cours en études autochtones offert en français pour la première fois à SFU.” Interviewed by Jacques Dufresne. Boulevard du Pacifique – Radio Canada. December 9, 2020.
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