Danielle Taschereau Mamers is a writer, researcher, and theorist of visual politics. Her first book, Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art (Fordham UP, 2024), investigates how the Indian Act, status cards, and other state-created documents materialize the category of Indian status and how Indigenous artists have critically and creatively responded to these documents. Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing cultivates strategies for looking and thinking disobediently, in ways that challenge state authority and denaturalize classification. Taschereau Mamers is also engaged in a study of art as a method of political theorizing and a project investigating the decolonial potential of bison reintroduction. In each of these projects, she brings together art and media theory as frames for analyzing the politics of documentation, archives, and images in settler colonial contexts.

Taschereau Mamers received her PhD in Media Studies from the University of Western Ontario in 2017. She is a white settler scholar, raised in Amiskwaciwâskahikan/Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory and is now based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Currently, she is the Managing Director of the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, a strategic research initiative of the University of Toronoto. Previously, she has held SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English & Cultural Studies at McMaster University, as well as Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wolf Humanities Center and the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute. Her research has been published in New Centennial Review, Settler Colonial Studies, the Journal of Environmental Media, PUBLIC: Art|Culture|Ideas, Photography & Culture, and elsewhere. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Media and Cultural Studies, Political Science, and English. Her commitment to anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies has been recognized with an IDEAS Grant, awarded by the McMaster’s Institute for Leadership, Innovation, and Excellence in Teaching. See full CV for more.

Taschereau Mamers contributes essays and criticism to a variety of online publications. Most recently, she has written about bison reintroduction and decolonization for the Globe and Mail, archival photographs of bison extermination for The Conversation, handwriting and intimate acts of mark-making for LitHub, and about writing groups and community for Avidly. Alongside her research and strategic research management work, Danielle facilitates strategic planning, partnership ideation, and team building. As a visual thinker with a career in words, she sneaks in images and illustration wherever she can. Lately, this has taken the form of graphic recording and her zine practice, DTM Editions. Her hand-drawn zines explore creating joy, surviving academia, and many things in between.