Mariel Belanger

Mariel Belanger is a Syilx mother, land-based artist and Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies at Queens University. Belanger’s research is a portfolio of Digital Embodied Story Practice as an Indigenizing Research-Creation Methodology that explores digital story-making to subvert coloniality. Her research contributes to the growing body of interdisciplinary artistic scholarship that engages Indigenous community, language, and culture, as a bridge for society telling stories of our time.  She is a recipient of a CGS SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship and a Teyonkwayenawá:kon Graduate Scholarship.