Dr. Brenna Duperron
Assistant Professor - English

PhD in English Literature, Dalhousie University
MA in English Literature, Simon Fraser University
BA in English Literature, Simon Fraser University

Dr. Brenna Duperron is an Assistant Professor of English, specializing in Medieval and Early Moden literatures. Duperron received her PhD from Dalhousie University in 2024, and her SSHRC-funded doctoral dissertation, “Fear Not the Language of the World: Red Reading Literacy in The Book of Margery Kempe”, bridges Indigenous and premodern scholarship, disrupting the borders of orality/literacy in medieval texts. Before joining UNBC, she taught as a contract faculty member at Dalhousie University, University of King’s College, and Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research focuses on developing, shaping, and promoting the emerging subfield of Indigenous/medieval studies. She won the Van Courtland Elliot Prize for her piece in the English Language Notes special issues Medieval Pasts and Indigenous Futures, “Ghostly Consciousness in The Book of Margery Kempe,” (2020) which reads pre-contact texts through Indigenous methods and approaches as an act of decolonization. In a 2021 issue of Exemplaria, Duperron co-authored “Thinking Indigeneity: A Challenge to Medieval Studies” with Elizabeth Edwards, Inglis Professor at University of King’s College, providing both a state-of-the-field review of the interdisciplinary links between medieval studies and Indigenous studies and a ‘call-for-action’ imploring further consideration and commitment to decolonial practices. After completing the 2025 RaceB4Race First Book Institute, she is currently working on her first monograph based on research from her dissertation.