Gina Snooks
MGS (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Gender Studies, 2015)
BA (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Women's Studies and Folklore, 2013)
Areas of Interest
Trauma & healing, Pagan studies, arts-based methodologies, life writing.
Thesis topic: examines Pagan women and Pagan gender variant persons’ experiences of trauma and healing through the usage of auto/biographical portraiture.
Awards
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2017
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2016
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2015
Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2014
Publications
Snooks, Gina, Nagy, Rosemary, Timms, Rebecca, Debassige, Donna, Jodouin, Kathleen, Quenneville Brenda and Lanyan Chen. “Blending Feminist, Indigenous, and Participatory Action Research Methodologies: Critical Reflections from the Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking.” Feminist Formations 33.2 (2021), 160-184.
Nagy, Rosemary, Snooks, Gina, Quenneville, Brenda, Chen, Lanyan, Wiggins, Sydnee, Debassige, Donna, Jodouin, Kathleen and Rebecca Timms. "Human Trafficking in Northeastern Ontario: Collaborative Responses." First Peoples Child & Family Review 15.2 (2020): 80-104. https://fpcfr.com/index.php/FPCFR/article/view/405
Snooks, Gina and Sonja Boon. “Salt Fish and Molasses: Unsettling the Palate Between Two Continents.” European Journal of Life Writing 6 (2017): 218-241. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.6.213
Snooks, Gina. “IABAGraduate Student and New Scholar Forum: Trauma, Testimony, and the Art of Therapeutic Portraiture.” What’s Next?: The Futures of Auto/Biography Studies, a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32.2 (2017).
Presentations
2021 (August) Negotiating (Newfound) Land-Based Creative and Spiritual Practices on Unceded Territory, with Emma Croll-Baehre. Witch Institute Conference, presented by Kingston University. Decolonial Praxis in Personal Spiritual Practice section. Online Conference
2020 (December) - “Portraits of Self and/as Life Writing Praxis.” Teaching Life Writing: a conference on nonfiction and pedagogy. University of Alberta. Online Conference.
2018 - “Research as Allyship: Reflections on the Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking.” Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF), Gathering Diversities, Social Sciences and Humanities Congress, University of Regina, Regina, SK. Co-presented paper on behalf of the Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance with Dr. Rosemary Nagy (lead investigator) and Jylelle Carpenter-Boesch
2017 “Trauma, Testimony and the Art of Healing Through Auto/biographical Photography.” The International Auto/Biography Association Chapter of the Americas Conference: Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas A Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar, York University; Toronto, ON.
Teaching
Courses Taught: WS4458F (special topic) Storytelling for Change: The Art of Decolonial Feminist Praxis, 2017
TA Assignments: WS 1020E Intro to Women’s Studies 2015-2017
