Stephanie Erickson

Stephanie Erickson is a doctoral student at the University of Victoria, studying in the English Department and the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought concentration program. Her area of research is Indigenous Futurism Literatures and their social and political significance for understanding and acting upon reconciliation in Canada. This work engages components of land and water stewardship, climate action, Indigenous language revitalization, and gender equity. Erickson’s research is further informed by her personal identity as a young Indigenous woman with mixed Red River Métis and German and Scandinavian settler ancestry. In accordance with Métis traditions, she offers her family names here: Swain, Breland, Grant, and Dauphinais. Born on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Erickson’s family quickly moved to BC where she grew up on the Okanagan Syilx territory. She completed an Associate diploma at Okanagan College before transferring to UBC (Okanagan campus), where she earned her BA in Creative Writing (2019). Erickson’s personal passion for social justice then led her to McMaster University, where her thesis focused on reproductive futurism in the Gender and Social Justice MA program (2022). Alongside her dissertation research at UVic, Erickson actively contributes to decolonizing pedagogy through multiple research and teaching appointments.