Olivia Brodowski

I'm fundamentally inspired by the natural environment: skiing, surfing, hiking, and travel are the scaffolding to my character and also to the future life I imagine for myself. One of my favourite pastimes is to document the beauty and complexity of nature through paintings, poems, short stories, films, and academic essays.

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My project, "The First People and The New: Re-Understanding Relationships with the Land Through Postcolonial Ecocriticism",
looks at how Indigenous and Settler Canadians might be said to have fundamentally opposing relationships to land; however, I argue that postcolonial ecocriticism helps her readers to understand such relationships in greater depth, finding beneficial overlap between the two. My project demonstrates this with a focus on encouraging reconsideration among settlers and their relationship with Turtle Island.