Ryan Shuvera

Ryan Shuvera is a settler scholar originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Treaty 1 territory). He is a Sessional Lecturer for ISP100 at UTM. He holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy from Lakehead University, an M.A. in Social and Political Thought from Acadia University, and a Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism from Western University in London, Ontario. His research analyzes experiences of listening to popular music, often produced by Indigenous peoples, as a basis to examine the ways that settlers listen, comprehend, and communicate (write, speak, act) ideas of reconciliation or unsettlement. Aspects of his research have been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS), including a paper discussing the neglected presence of Indigenous musicians in a history of country music in North America. He has also published an article in a special issue on decolonization in the IASPM Journal, which discusses Tanya Tagaq’s cover of Nirvana’s song “Rape Me,” and addresses how Tagaq’s performance shifts the narrative of the song to speak to the reality of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.