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Associate Professor

E: kcrey@sfu.ca
Room: K9668

Karrmen Crey

Karrmen Crey is Stó:lō and a member of the Cheam First Nation. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, where her research examines Indigenous film, television, and digital media; institutions of media culture; Indigenous film festivals and conventions; gender and Indigenous digital media histories; and Black and Indigenous futurisms and critical theory. 

Education

  • Ph.D, School of Theater, Film, and Television, Cinema and Media Studies,  University of California Los Angeles 2016

publications

Books

  • Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada (Minnesota Press, 2024)
  • Co-editor of By Their Work : Indigenous Women’s Digital Media in North America (Minnesota Press, 2025).

research

Indigenous film, television, video, and digital media; film festivals, conventions, and institutions of media culture; Indigenous social movements; national media cultures, history, and policy; transnational Indigenous theory and media; postcolonial media; Indigenous and Black futurisms and critical theory; decolonial theory and scholarship.