Roewan Crowe

Currently an Associate Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of Winnipeg and Co-Director of The Institute for Women's & Gender Studies. Her creative and scholarly work explores queerness, class, violence, queer ecology, and what it means to be a settler. She lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

• Birthplace — Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • Occupation — Artist, Writer and scholar • Notable Works — Quivering Land • Website — roewancrowe.com

Crowe was born to working class parents in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, moving to Spruce Grove, Alberta in 1969. After completing an honours bachelor of arts degree at the University of Alberta, Crowe moved to Toronto to complete graduate studies in community psychology and arts-based research at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. After she completed her doctoral studies, she returned to the prairies.

Roewan Crowe creates work through the use of performance, installation, video, text, and theory, and her recent work creates intimate landscapes, making space for feelings, connection, and queer encounters. Noted work includes: stop-motion animation Queer Grit which has traveled to video and film festivals internationally; digShift (ongoing), a decolonizing and environmental reclamation project using site specific performance and multichannel installation to explore the shifting layers of an abandoned gas station; Lifting Stone, a queer femme performance/installation creating intimate poetic encounters; and My Monument, a multimedia exhibition with artists cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane and Paul Robles. That video uses Crowe's book Quivering Land to explore vanished feminist/queer/alternative cultural sites. Her longstanding community practice is concerned with creating space for and building engaged feminist/queer/artistic communities. In collaboration with Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) in 2008, she curated Art Building Community, a project that saw the launch of ten new works and a weekend symposium.

Crowe is the author of the book Quivering Land as well as scholarly articles and several chapbooks.

Quivering Land is a queer Western, engaging with poetics and politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West. Reviews of Quivering Land include: Herizons: Women's News and Feminist Views, and Canadian Women in Literary Arts, an inclusive national literary organization.