Dr. Monique Giroux

Dr. Monique Giroux holds the Canada Research Chair in Métis Music and is an Associate Professor in the Music Department. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen’s University (2015–2017), a PhD in (ethno)musicology at York University (2013), an MA in musicology also at York University (2008), and a BMus combining performance and research at Brandon University (2005).

Her research centres the rematriation of audio/audiovisual recordings and the strengthening of relational research-creation responses to and conversations with Métis music-dance practices and practitioners. Prioritizing a visiting way methodology, Giroux furthermore addresses the historic and ongoing hoarding of knowledge by institutions while prioritizing Métis ways of relating to place and to others.

Giroux’s first monograph, Métis Music: Stories of Recognition and Resurgence considers the complex dynamics of recognition, non-recognition, and erasure over a history of Métis music-making, from the Red River Resistance to the present day. Critically, she asks: what makes music Métis, and who gets to decide? In addition to her monograph, Giroux has published numerous book chapters and journal articles including articles on "Métis-style" fiddling, Métis bard Pierre Falcon (Ethnologies), Indigenous/settler relations at old time fiddle contests (Ethnomusicology), alliance studies (Yearbook for Traditional Music), Métis music festivals (MUSICultures), and ethnodrama (Studies in Musical Theatre).