About

Dr. Jas M. Morgan is a Toronto-based Cree-Métis-Saulteaux Assistant Professor in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Department of English. Morgan holds a Canada Research Chair in Digital Wahkohtowin and Cultural Governance. Morgan is the Director of Culture and Heritage at Yellowhead Institute and the Facilitator for the Digital Wahkohtowin & Cultural Governance Lab. Morgan’s areas of expertise include Indigenous kinships, Indigenous narratives in film and tv, Indigenous documentary cultures, Indigenous social media and internet cultures, digital media, digital publishing, digital archives and heritage, and Trans Indigenous thought.

Morgan has an extensive background in film and art criticism. Morgan previously held the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art magazine and served as the Arts and Literary Summit programmer for MagNet 2019. Morgan’s first book nîtisânak (Metonymy Press, 2018) won the prestigious 2019 Dayne Ogilive Prize and a 2019 Quebec Writer’s Federation first book prize, and has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and an Indigenous Voices Literary Award. Morgan is the co-founder of gijiit—a curatorial collective that focuses on community-engaged Indigenous film and art curations, gatherings, and research dealing with themes of gender, sex, and sexuality—and has curated exhibitions and programs at articule in Montreal, Never Apart in Montreal, La Galerie Centrale Powerhouse in Montreal, AceArt in Winnipeg, and InterAccess in Toronto.

Morgan’s research and writing has received many accolades. Morgan is a REVEAL Indigenous Art Award recipient, and have been awarded national Magazine Awards in the Essay category for “Stories Not Told” and in the Best-Editorial Package category for “#MeToo and the Secrets Indigenous Women Keep.” For their work as lead editor for the summer 2017 issue of Canadian Art, an issue on the theme of “Kinship,” they were also nominated for a National Magazine Award in the “Best Editorial Package” category. Morgan’s writing has appeared in The Walrus, Malahat Review, Room, GUTS, esse, Teen Vogue, CV2/Prairie Fire, The New Inquiry and other publications. Morgan’s research about queer and trans Indigenous film, archives, and futures has been published by academic journals and publishers internationally such as the Canadian Theatre Review, Fernwood Press, University of Manitoba Press, and Duke University Press.