Conference Papers / Lectures

“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,” VIU Arts and Humanities Colloquium Public Lecture Series, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, 2 February 2024, lecture. https://news.viu.ca/community-classroom/community-classroom-blog/using-ojibwe-lens-examine-margaret

“‘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. 

Publications

Co-authored with Jackie Finch. “Indigenous Apocalyptic Fictions as Healing Narratives in Future Home of the Living God and Robopocalypse.” Transmotion, forthcoming.

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. Jennifer Markides and Laura Forsythe, eds. New York: DIO Press, 2019. 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). Volume 27 (Autumn 2013): 123-39. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:56194

Transmotion

Translation Projects

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), 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

You can find examples of my translation (French to English) and text adaptation (SEO) below:

• https://www.phytsproduction.com

• https://advice.decathlon.ca/how-to-trail-run-comfortably-in-the-fall

• https://advice.decathlon.ca/what-to-wear-when-horseback-riding-during-the-winter

• https://www.devinci.com/en/stories/articles/bikepacking-where-to-start/

• https://www.devinci.com/en/stories/articles/call2recycle/

• https://www.devinci.com/en/stories/articles/devinci-hatchet-r-spec-v-g-spec/

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/

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

• https://advice.decathlon.ca/how-to-choose-your-surfboard

• https://advice.decathlon.ca/where-are-the-best-surf-spots-to-chase-the-waves-in-canada-part-1

• https://advice.decathlon.ca/where-are-the-best-surf-spots-to-chase-the-waves-in-canada-part-2