Amber Dean

Amber Dean is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Her research examines practices of public mourning and memorialization, focusing on whose lives are routinely represented as more or less grievable in Canada. Recently she has contributed to building and working with archives of difficult pasts, including 2SLGBTQ+ archives; archives of Inuit experience at the Hamilton Mountain TB Sanatorium; and the digital archives of the 1985 Air India bombing. She is the author of Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficult Work of Inheritance (University of Toronto Press, 2015), and co-editor (with Chandrima Chakraborty and Angela Failler) of Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning (University of Alberta Press, 2017).