Dreamstories

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Pod-Head: Alexa Manuel

This pod will focus on storytelling and storylistening beyond written text. Together, we will explore how we can expand the ways we understand literatures by expanding the ways we view and experience what story is, where it comes from, and how we engage with it. Land, dreams, novels, poetry, performance, body artistry — all of these are forms of story that can be studied as literature. In particular, we will pay attention to the storytelling power of dreams.

Alexa Manuel

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Alexa Manuel (Syilx and St’at’imc Nations) completed her doctoral studies in March 2024. Her dissertation, titled “Stories of Lands, Bodies and Dreams: A tmixwcentric Literary Theory”, proposes a literary theory based in Syilx knowledges. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia.