Kristin Dowell is Associate Professor of Indigenous Art & Film in the Department of Art History at Florida State University where she also serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Center. She has worked as a film curator at several Indigenous film festivals and is the author of “Sovereign Screens: Aboriginal Media on the Canadian West Coast” (2013). Her current book, “Digital Sutures: Family & Cultural Memory in Indigenous Women’s Films” explores how Indigenous women and gender expansive filmmakers re-define film genres, such as stop-motion animation and experimental documentary, to recuperate family histories, ancestral knowledge, and cultural memory. She is a proud speaker of the Irish language and curator of “Talamh agus Teanga: Land and Language in Contemporary Irish Art”, the first exhibition of Irish art at FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts which was exhibited from January 2024 to May 2024. She is Irish American with family ties to the townland of Gallach (Castleblakeney) in County Galway. Professor Dowell has carried out curatorial and scholarly research in 2023 and 2024 in Ireland as she further develops research projects on Irish language media and contemporary Irish art.