Dolleen Manning
Bio
Dr. Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning is a member of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nations, an artist, scholar, and youngest of twelve. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), hosted by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) at McGill University. Manning received her PhD recently from the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, and holds graduate degrees in contemporary art (MFA, Simon Fraser, 1997) and critical theory (MA, UWO, 2005). She is also a recipient of the SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, held at Michigan State University, MI, USA, commencing September 2018-2020. She works at the intersection of Anishinaabe ontology and epistemology, critical theory, phenomenology, and art. Manning has chapters published in Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze/Guattari and the Arts, eds. Antonio Calcagno, et al. (Rowman and Littlefield 2014), and Feminist Phenomenology Futures, eds. Helen Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski (Indiana UP 2017). For the BIT project, Manning is co-facilitating the cultivating the arts stream with Mary Bunch, as well as developing collaborative workshops and symposiums with art components, in Montreal and Toronto.