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Monographs

 

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles and book contributions

 

Conference papers / Keynotes

 
 

Margaret Atwood’s Composite Creatures: Writing Between “the Human” and “the Animal” in the MaddAddam Trilogy. De Gruyter Press, forthcoming (expected fall/winter 2026).

Co-authored with Jackie P’ip’ey’osot Schmidbauer-Finch. “Indigenous Apocalyptic Fictions as Healing Narratives in Future Home of the Living God and Robopocalypse.” Transmotion, forthcoming Fall 2026.

Co-authored with Deborah Madsen. “Indigenous Narratives.” The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction. Edited by Patrick O’Donnell, Stephen J. Burns, and Lesley Larking. Wiley Blackwell, 2022, pp. 1-10. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119431732.ecaf0246 

“Anishinaabe Mino-Bimaadiziwin in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.” Research Journeys in/to Multiple Ways of Knowing. Edited by Jennifer Markides and Laura Forsythe, DIO Press, 2019, pp. 155-63.

“Revolutionary Writing: The Symbiosis of Social and Literary Conflict and Aesthetic Production in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL), vol. 27, Autumn 2013, pp. 123-39. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:56194

Co-presented with Jackie P’ip’ey’osot Schmidbauer-Finch. “Indigenous Apocalyptic Fictions as Healing Narratives in Future Home of the Living God and Robopocalypse,” Canadian Association of American Studies. Online conference, 24-26 October 2025, conference paper.

“Hope and Despair in the Time of Carnism: Why Vegan Literatures Matter,” Vegan Intersections: Literature, History, Theory, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2-4 April 2025, keynote. https://www.unige.ch/vls/events/vls-conference-2025-vegan-intersections

“A History of Vivisection.” Histoire de la Cité, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 April 2025, roundtable discussion on “Veganism: Is It a Fad?”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BylTHLGyzDE&ab_channel=FestivalHistoireetCit%C3%A9.

“Mino-Bimaadiziwin as Critical Theory: Reading Atwood's Speculative Fiction Through an Ojibwe Lens,” The Colloquium: The Arts and Humanities Public Lecture Series, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, 2 February 2024, lecture. https://www.youtube.com/live/HaDnXFocXLo?si=3tyZSz6LmABAtOiy

“‘Red Reading’ Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” NorthEast Modern Language Association. Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Washington, D.C. 21-24 March 2019, conference paper. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:103498

“Mino-Bimaadiziwin in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction.” Rising Up: A Graduate Students Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Research, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 9-10 March 2018, conference paper. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:103498

“‘Bright Side’: Margaret Atwood's Post-Apocalyptic Post-Anthropocentrism.” Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS): Uncertain Futures.  OCAD University, Toronto, Canada, 27-29 October 2017, conference paper. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:103499

“Animals, the Arts, and the 'Other': Revising the Scala Naturae in Posthuman Narratives.” European Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSAeu): SCALE. University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, 15-18 June 2015, conference paper. 

“Hybrids, Companions, and Siblings: The Posthuman(ist) Family of Oryx and Crake.” Approaching Posthumanism and the Posthuman, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 June 2015, conference paper. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:100793

“Post-Apocalyptic Storytelling and Post-Anthropocentric Ethics in Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” Swiss Association for North American Studies (SANAS): Literature, Ethics, and Morality, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 20-21 November 2014, conference paper. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:101452

"The Relationship Between Conflict and Aesthetic Production in Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." Swiss Association for North American Studies (SANAS) / Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS): Cultures in Conflict / Conflicting Cultures, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 9-10 November 2012, conference paper. 

Transmotion

 

Translations and SEO

 

Creative Non-Fiction and Copy-Writing

From our website: “Transmotion is a biannual, fully and permanently open-access journal inspired by the work of Gerald Vizenor. Transmotion publishes new scholarship focused on theoretical, experimental, postmodernist, and avant-garde writing produced by Native American and First Nations authors, as well as book reviews on relevant work in Vizenor Studies and Indigenous Studies.”

As the Book Reviews editor (2020-present), my team of editorial assistants and I work with writers and scholars from all over the world at nearly every level of academia, from senior experts to promising undergraduates, to ensure pristine, timely reviews for our bi-annual editions.

Current issues can be found here: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/index

In 2019, while writing my dissertation, I wrote a series of reviews of local restaurants for a community news website. You can find the published reviews here (all photographs are mine, unless stated otherwise): https://www.kitsilano.ca/author/bryn-skibo-birney/

I have also written a series of advice and how-to articles for Decathlon, an international sporting-goods retailer. Several of these articles are available below: