I teach and research in the area of Indigenous literatures and film, European film and autobiography/life writing. I’m currently finishing a project on German women filmmakers who made films in East Germany just prior to the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990.

I’ve held several research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for my project on autobiographical filmmaking as well as several conference grants dealing with Indigenous issues.

I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of autobiographical writing and Indigenous literatures and filmmaking.

Edited

• Lischke, Ute et al, Indigenous Voices and Spirit Memory. Winnipeg: Aboriginal Issues Press, 2012.
• Lischke, Ute and David T. McNab, The Long Journey of Canada’s Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.
• Lischke, Ute and David T. McNab, Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations.  Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
• Lischke, Ute and David T. McNab, Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988‑89.  Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003.

Chapters in Books

• Lischke, Ute, “A World of Beauty: The Spirits within Nature in the Writings of Louise Erdrich” in Hele, Karl S. (ed) The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013.
• Lischke, Ute, “Reclaiming Indigenous Memory through Performance and Humour: Drew Hayden Taylor’s Documentary Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew” in McNab, David, Ute Lischke et al, Indigenous Voices and Spirit Memory, Winnipeg: Aboriginal Issues Press, 2012, pp 11-21.