Assistant Professor
North Borden Building, Room 223
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Indigenous Literatures, Theatre, and Film
- Oral Tradition and Indigenous Knowledges
- Feminism and Queer Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
Biography
Tyler Pennock is a two-spirit adoptee from a Cree and Metis family around the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. Their first Book, BONES (Brick Books), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry, was released in 2020, and their second book, BLOOD was released in September 2022. Tyler was the inaugural FASS (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) Indigenous Artist-in-Residence at Carleton University in 2023, and is an Assistant Professor Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Toronto.
Publications
- Skin (Forthcoming) (Brick Books Publishing : 2026)
- Nighthawk (Kegedonce Press : 2024)
- Blood (Brick Books Publishing : 2022)
- “I’m not an Expert in Intimacy and Neither are You.” (League of Canadian Poets. : 2022)
- “Measure” (Guelph Institute for Environmental Research : 2021)
- Bones (Brick Book Publishing : 2020)
- “B.” (Glad Day Lit : 2020)
- “Extrait de Bones." (Maison de la Poésie de Nantes. : 2020)
- Senator Murray Sinclair: Community, education, change: Indigenous ways of knowing, Kihkinoohamaakewin. (Rabble.ca : 2018)
- “Enda’aan: Why Land Matters" (Shameless Media : 2016)
- Buffy Ste Marie (University of Toronto Press : 2011)
- Profile: Lillian McGregor (University of Toronto Press : 2010)
- Honouring Excellence: John Kim Bell (University of Toronto Press : 2010)
- Launching New Waves: Indigenous Waves Radio Show (University of Toronto Press : 2009)
- Elijah Harper (McNaughton & Gunn : 2008)
- Avoided Averted (McNaughton & Gunn : 2008)
- Words (Kegedonce Press)