Selena​ ​Couture ​is ​a settler scholar who works as ​an assistant ​professor​ of theory, history and Canadian theatre ​at the University of Alberta​. ​ ​She​ researches Indigenous performance with a ​focus on​ land, Indigenous languages and historiographic methods while also working to understand the colonial performative methods used in the construction of whiteness. Her research has been published in Theatre Journal, Performance Research, Canadian Theatre Review, and alt.theatre. Recent editing work includes Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (with Alexander Dick), and CTR 174 Special Issue on Commemoration with Heather Davis-Fisch. Forthcoming in Jan 2019 is a collaborative work, On This Patch of Grass City Parks and the Politics of Occupied Land, with Matt Hern, Sadie Couture and Daisy Couture. She is also currently working on her monograph, Against the Current and Into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver’s Stanley Park.