Response to J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, “A Structure, Not an Event: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity,” published in Lateral 5.1. Gniadek approaches settler colonialism via questions of time—asking When is settler colonialism?—which reveals how narratives of national belonging tend to operate, as narrative confrontations that facilitate violence throughout and across time.
Articles by Melissa Gniadek
Melissa Gniadek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, where she teaches nineteenth-century American literature and culture. Her current book projects involve temporalities of settlement in US contexts and the Pacific “at home” in nineteenth-century America. Her work has appeared in journals including American Literature, Early American Literature, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.