Dolleen Manning

Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning is a Queen's National Scholar in Anishinaabe Language, Knowledge and Culture in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Queen's University. She is a member of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation and an interdisciplinary artist. She received a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, an MFA in Fine Art from Simon Fraser, and is an Alumni of Lambton College.

She cites her early childhood grounding in her mother’s cultural lessons as her primary creative and academic influence. Manning has wide-ranging interests in Anishinaabe onto-epistemology, critical theory, phenomenology, art, and research-creation, investigating First Nation’s imaging practices, mnidoo interrelationality, epistemological sovereignty, and the debilitating impact of settler colonial logics. She is well known for her concept of Mnidoo Worlding, a development of Anishinaabe relational ontologies.

Dr. Manning has published articles in Public and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, as well as book a chapters in Feminist Phenomenology Futures and Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze/ Guattari and the Arts. She is Principal Investigator of Earthdiver: Land-Based Worlding (MITACS), and Co-Investigator on Pluriversal Worlding with Extended Reality. Manning co-directs the cross-institutional Peripheral Visions Co-Lab (York and Queen’s).

She is an affiliate of Revision Centre for Art and Social Justice, Fellow of The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), and Member of Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society. Manning is co-Director of the Peripheral Visions CoLab.