Mylène Yannick Gamache, BA, MA, PhD

• INDG 1220 - Indigenous Peoples in Canada, Part I
• INDG/WOMN 2430 - Indigenous Women’s Stories
• INDG/WOMN 2630 - Indigenous Feminisms
• WOMN 3000 - Psychoanalysis, Femininity, and Race
• INDG 4260/7260 - Critical Indigenous and Black Futurisms
• INDG 4300/7220 - Indigenous Gendered Perspectives on Settler Colonial Violence

Mylène Yannick Gamache is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. Born and based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she is franco-manitobaine, with Gamache relations to Laurier and La Brocquerie, MB., as well as Red River Métis by her mother line, with Carrière relations in St. Pierre-Jolys, Beauchemin relations in Îles-des-Chênes via Grande Pointe, St. Vital, and St. Boniface.

• PhD (English), University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 2017
• MA (Women's and Gender Studies), University of Toronto, 2012
• BA Double Honours (Philosophy, Women's and Gender Studies), University of Manitoba, 2011

Research interests

• Psychoanalysis
• Literary analysis and experimental theory
• Indigenous feminisms
• Inter-Indigenous world-building

Research summary

For cross-disciplinary literary analyses of psyche, telepathy, mourning and possession, please consult related publications in English Studies in Canada, The Oxford Literary Review, as well as articles forthcoming in differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and Wicazo Sa Review.

Mylène is also one of five co-founding members and researchers in Iapi debwewin aasaamb (IDA), a co-lab and research initiative funded by a 2022-2024 SSHRC Insight Development research grant and by a 2024-2028 SSHRC Partnership Grant (University of Alberta - Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality). IDA's reading and writing practices invite us to enact inter-Indigenous relational governance as an everyday practice. Our Indigenous feminist core values are informed by critical co-readings of historiographies on the Iron Alliance; a socio-political confederacy among Northern Plains Nakoda, Anishinaabe, Nêhiyaw, and Métis poly-kinetic peoples especially active in the 17th to 19th centuries.

Book Chapters

• Iapi debwewin aansaamb. "Cannibals and Regist*rs: Haunting Relations Across the Indigenous Prairies (and Beyond).” Contemporary Indigenous Horror, edited by Naomi Borwein and Krista Collier-Jarvis. University Press of Mississippi, 2027 (in review).
• Gamache, Mylène Yannick. "«On s’en fait des rêves» (March 4, 1942): Reading density and time-travelling in place with Lucile Beauchemin’s 20th century life writings." Métis Storytelling, edited by Celiese Lypka and Aubrey Hanson, University of Manitoba Press, 2026 (in press).
• Gamache, Mylène Yannick. "Becoming critical: on the limits and possibilities of learning with Indigenous women’s stories." Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics and Poetics Today, edited by Dominique Hétu, Amanda Fayant, Marie Carrière and Libe Garcia Zarranz, University of Alberta Press, 2025, pp. 15-30.
• Red River Readers. "Métis in Multivocal Flux: Across, Between and Beyond Disciplinary Approaches to Métis Studies." Métis Coming Together: Sharing our Stories and Knowledges, edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides, Peter Lang Group AG, 2024, pp. 19-34.
• D’Arcangelis, Carol Lynne, Mylène Yannick Gamache, Nicholas Hrynyk, and Suzanne Lenon. "Regional Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom." Reading The Room: Lessons On Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom, edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe, Concordia University Press, 2024, pp. 331-347.

Articles

• Gamache, Mylène Yannick. “Indigenous portals, tele-communications, and urgent animations.” Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 42, no. 1, 2026 (forthcoming).
• Gamache, Mylène Yannick. “Reflecting Psyche: a protocol for colonial readers.”  differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2026  (forthcoming).
• Iapi debwewin aansaamb. “A guide to inter-Indigenous co-labbing.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, 2025, pp. 71-90.
• Gamache, Mylène Yannick. "Restorying Métis-Nêhiyaw Telepathies and Reading Unsettling Stories." English Studies in Canada, vol. 47, no. 1, 2021, pp. 73-89.
• Gamache, Mylène Yannick. "Reading with Simpson and Lindberg: re-membering kinship ties, layered bodies, and visitation (w)rites." Feminist Review, vol. 128, no. 2, 2021, pp. 1-15.
  
  
   

• 2023 - Indigenous Female Leader Award, Magnificent Women's Awards Gala
• 2022 - Merit Award, Service Category, University of Manitoba and University of Manitoba Faculty Association