Jennifer Hardwick

B.A. Hons (SFU) M.A. (Queen's) PhD (Queen's)

Surrey Office: Fir 318

Dr. Jennifer Hardwick (she/they) is a neurodivergent settler scholar and teacher who currently lives on the unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo, and Tsawwassen peoples. Her research focuses on Indigenous literary, media, and performance arts on the territories we currently call Canada, disability justice in policy and practice, and communities of solidarity.

Jen is passionate about education, and has spent the last 15 years teaching, creating, organizing, and facilitating with post-secondary institutions, arts organizations, non-profits, and community groups. She currently teaches in both the English Department and Policy Studies program at KPU, and she has been faculty participant in the Including All Citizens Pathway since 2019.

In her spare time Jen likes to bake, practice martial arts, travel, and spend time outside.

Courses taught

ENGL 1100: Introduction to University Writing
ENGL 1202: Reading and Writing about Selected Topics
ENGL 2300: Writing in the Digital Age
ENGL 2301: Canadian Literature in English
ENGL 3301: 19th Century Canadian Literature
ENGL 3303: Canadian Poetry
ENGL 3390: Indigenous Narratives

Areas of Interest

Indigenous Literary, Media, and Performance Arts
Canadian Literature
Community Engagement
Digital Cultures
Disability Justice
Inclusive Education
Pedagogy

Scholarly Work

Co-authored with Lilach Marom. “From Access to Inclusion: A Call for a Cultural Shift in Higher Education.” Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research. May 2024
Co-authored with Kya Bezanson, Anju Miller, Emma Sawatzky, and Fiona Whittington-Walsh. “Designing for Inclusion: Lessons from Including All Citizens.” Designing for Care. Edited by Sean Michael Morris, Surita Jhangiani, Martha Burtis, Jerod Quinn, and Sukaina Walji. Hybrid Pedagogy Books, 2022. pp. 67-85
“Open and Closed: Open Education Projects, Indigenous Studies, and Teaching Undergraduate Students About the Ethics of Information Access.” Integrating Digital Literacy in the Disciplines. Edited by Lauren Hays and Jenna Kammer. Stylus Publishing, 2021. pp. 83-94
“Identity and Survival in the Multimedia Art of Street-Involved Youth” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. vol 9. no. 1, 2017. pp. 82-101
Co-authored with Jill Scott, Kanonhsyonne Janice Hill, and Konwanonhsiyohstha Callie Hill. “Honouring the Kahswéntha: Renewing the Relationship Between the Kanyen’keháka and Queen’s University.” Indigenous Perspectives on Education for Well-Being in Canada. Edited by Thomas Falkenberg and Frank Deer. Education for Sustainable Well-Being Press, 2016. pp. 123-127
“Dismantling Narratives: Settler Ignorance, Indigenous Literature and the Development of a Decolonizing Discourse.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. Vol. 33, 2015, pp. 99-118
“A safe space for dangerous ideas, and a dangerous space for safe thinking.” Hybrid Pedagogy. 13 August 2014
“‘We’re writing our own stories’: An Examination of Youth Writing in Our Story: The Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge.” Studies in Canadian Literature. vol. 36. no. 1, 2011. pp. 124-141
Policies and Reports
Co-authored with Fiona Whittington-Walsh. Research Assistants Zafreen Jaffer, and Katelyn Watson. Fostering Equitable, Accessible, and Inclusive Admissions through Disability Justice. Prepared for BCCAT. Nov. 28, 2023
Co-authored with Shane Sable. Everything is Ceremony: Indigenous Burlesque and the Necessity of Embodiment, Relationship, and Imagination in Indigenous Research Methodologies. Prepared for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. February 2019.
Other Writings, Reviews, and Digital Projects
Co-authored with Seanna Tacaks. “Tying Universal Design for Learning to Intercultural Teaching.” Inclusive Pedagogies. Ed. Christina Page. KPU Open. August 2021.
“KDocs Talks to Virago Nation.” Documentary Film Short. Richmond, BC. February 2020
Co-authored with Shane Sable and Amei-lee Laboucan. “‘Medicine in Our Very Bones’: Bringing Indigenous Burlesque to Kwantlen Polytechnic University.” Alt Theatre. vol. 15 no. 3, 2019.
Co-authored with Amei-lee Laboucan “A Decolonial Love Story: A Review of Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed” CanLit.ca July 2019