Science Building, SN4077
Department of Gender Studies
Memorial University
John's, NL A1C 5S7

phone: 709.864.2007
email: carollynneda@mun.ca

Academics

BA Government (Harvard); MA Education (Toronto), PhD Education  (Toronto)

Areas for Student Research Supervision

• Indigenous feminisms, and Indigenous social and political thought
• De-, anti- and post-colonial feminisms (including critiques of modernity)
• Settler colonial theory
• History of and contemporary Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations
• Contemporary social movements - feminist, anti-colonial, anti/alter-globalization
• Affect theory (especially public affect theory)

Examples of Recent Courses Taught

• GNDR 1005: Identities and Difference
• GNDR 3008: Feminists Practices and Global Change
• GNDR 3015: Indigenous Feminisms in Theory and Practice
• GNDR 6200: Graduate Seminar in Gender Studies
• GNDR 6403: Feminisms and Social Change

Bio

Carol-Lynne D'Arcangelis does research in the areas of Indigenous - non-Indigenous relationships, with a focus on the tensions and possibilities for non-colonizing solidarity between Indigenous women and non-Indigenous women across Turtle Island (North America). Her work is interdisciplinary, drawing on a wide range of literatures including Indigenous feminisms, critical race theory (and critical whiteness studies), settler and post-colonial studies, and increasingly, cultural studies and theories of (public) affect. More specifically, she is interested in exploring the ways in which modernity/modern subjectivity (often referred to in shorthand as liberal individualism) can be said to retain a grip on social/power relations within and across social groupings. Her work has a distinct auto-ethnographic component in the way in which it reflects (and reflects upon) her activism as a white feminist ally to raise awareness about the missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada. Prior to joining the academy, Carol-Lynne lived and worked extensively in Central America in the areas of social justice and human rights.

Publications

Books

D'Arcangelis, C. L. (2022). The solidarity encounter: Women, activism, and creating non-colonizing relations. University of British Columbia Press.

Refereed Articles

D’Arcangelis, C. L., & Quiroga, L. (2023). Cuerpo-territorio: Towards feminist solidarities in the Americas. Revista Eletrônica Da ANPHLAC, 23(35), 150–174. https://doi.org/10.46752/anphlac.35.2023.4140

D’Arcangelis, C. L. (2020). Feministische Aufrufe des Dekolonialen Widerstand und Wiederaufleben in den Arbeiten von María Lugones und Leanne Betasamosake [Feminist invocations of the decolonial: Reading resistance/resurgence in María Lugones and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson].Peripherie, 40(157/158), 34–67. DOI: 10.3224/peripherie.v40i1-2.03 www.zeitschrift-peripherie.de/D-Arcangelis_Feminist-Invocations-of-the-Decolonial_Endf_Homepage.pdf

D’Arcangelis, C. L. (2018). Revelations of a white woman settler-activist: The fraught promise of solidarity. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 18(5), 339–353. doi: 10.1177/153270861775067

D'Arcangelis, C. L. (2013) Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization or Decolonizing Native Histories [Book review], AlterNative, 9(1), 105-107.

D'Arcangelis, C. L. (2010). Exploring Indigenous feminist relational sovereignty. Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, 34(2), 127-138.

D'Arcangelis, C. L. (2002). Mayan women and the Foro as a political collective: The case of the Guatemalan National Women's Forum, Canadian Woman Studies, 22(2), 126-132.

Refereed Book Chapters

Yannick Gamache, M., Lenon, S., Hrynyk, N., & D’Arcangelis, C. L. (2024). Roundtable: Regional perspectives on gender and sexuality in the classroom. In N. Kouri-Towe (Ed.), Reading the room: Lessons on pedagogy and curriculum from the gender and sexuality studies classroom. Concordia University Press.

Huntley, A., & D’Arcangelis, C. L. (2024). Conversations on decolonizing justice. In C. Fortier, E. Hon-Sing Wong, N. Penak & MJ Rwigema (Eds.), Abolition and social work. Between the Lines.

D’Arcangelis, C. L. (2017). Enhancing Indigenous women’s participation and formal representation. In A. Marland & L. Moore (Eds.), The democracy cookbook: Recipes to renew governance in Newfoundland and Labrador (pp. 198-201). St. John’s, NL: Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) Books.

D'Arcangelis, C. L., with Huntley, A. (2012). No More Silence: Towards a pedagogy of feminist decolonizing solidarity. In S. Walters, & L. Manicom (Eds.), Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates: Building Pedagogies of Possibility.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Reports

Huntley, A., with D'Arcangelis, C. L. (2012). No More Silence in South Africa, Muskrat Magazine, Issue 3. http://www.muskratmagazine.com/issue3/muskrat-warriors/no-more-silence-in-south-africa/

D'Arcangelis, C. L. (1998). Mapeo sobre el Proceso del Foro Nacional de la Mujer. Guatemala: United Nations Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA).

D'Arcangelis, C. L. (1994). Women and political culture. In J. Spence (Ed.), El Salvador's Elections of the Century: Results, Recommendations, Analysis. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Initiatives.