Dr. Michael D. Datura

Dr. Michael Dé Danann Datura (MA, PhD, Simon Fraser University) is a humanities teacher, an educational researcher, and occasionally a poet. His research draws on lyric philosophy and the hermeneutic tradition to examine place-based education, Indigenous ways of knowing, and radical politics in the context of settler colonialism and ecological emergency. His work aims to cultivate an ecosophic disposition to recognize the experience of wisdom traditions, contemplative practices, and critical reflexivity in a more-than-human world. He also likes long walks in the forest.