Degreees: BA(Victoria), MA, PhD (Toronto)

Originally from Regina, Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber began his studies at S.I.F.C. After a year of Native Studies, he moved to Vancouver Island where he worked at the old Victoria Foundries before continuing his studies at the University of Victoria, where he completed his BA. He then harrowed teaching ESL in Quebec before eventually taking graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where he wrote his dissertation on elegies that involve colonial conflicts between English Canadian, First Nations, and Métis cultures. While at the U of T, he also found interest in studying the grammar and structure of English and has an article in the History of the English Language (HEL) database. He has also published an article on cognitive theories regarding oral and written traditions in the International Journal of Canadian Studies (2004). Presently, he teaches First Nations and Métis poetry, fiction, and drama, and he has articles forthcoming on Indigenous aesthetics. His recent interests also involve researching and developing a course program on representations of games of chance in First Nations and Western literatures, film, and popular culture.