Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Areas of Interest
- Indigenous literatures
- Studies in law and literature
- Postcolonial and feminist theory
- Legal writing
Biography
In her book, Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, she explores how Indigenous women’s writing from Canada and the United States addresses case law concerning tribal membership, intergenerational residential school experiences, and land claims. Her current project analyzes Justice Thurgood Marshall’s papers in the context of Indian civil rights claims from the 1960s. She is a co-editor (with Greig Henderson and Simon Stern) of “The Critical Work of Law and Literature,” University of Toronto Quarterly (Fall 2013) and a co-editor and contributor (with Shari Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman) to the award-winning collection, Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (UBC 2010). Suzack is cross-appointed to the Indigenous Studies Program and teaches courses for English and Indigenous Studies on comparative Indigenous literatures, comparative Indigenous studies, and Indigenous decolonization with a focus on gender issues and Indigenous women.
Awards
- 2023 Ludwik & Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize Awards of Excellence - University of Toronto
Publications
- Comparative Racialization and American Indian Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (Routledge : 2017)
- Transitional Justice, Termination Policies, and the Politics of Literary Affect in Chrystos’ Not Vanishing ( : 2017)
- Human Rights and Indigenous Feminisms (Routledge : 2016)
- Indigenous Feminisms in Canada ( : 2015)
- The Critical Work of Law and Literature ( : 2013)
- The Becoming of Justice: Indigenous Women’s Writing in the Pre-Truth and Reconciliation Period ( : 2013)
- The Transposition of Law and Literature in Delgamuukw and Monkey Beach (UBC Press : 2011)