Publications

This page lists my publications and works-in-progress. 

Note: For publications on multispecies relationships produced through the FIDO Research Lab, authorship reflects interdisciplinary research conventions in which the final author denotes the Principal Investigator and overall project lead; student collaborators are indicated with an asterisk (*).

Refereed Journal Articles

Multispecies and More-than-Human Learning

*Linares-Roake, J., Cudworth, E., Van Patter, L., Rice, C., & Breen, A. V. (2025). Looking back with Logos the Cat: Unsettling the gaze in multispecies research. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004251346740

Van Patter, L. E., *Linares-Roake, J., & Breen, A. V. (2023). What does One Health want? Feminist, posthuman, and anti-colonial possibilities. One Health Outlook, 5, 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-022-00076-

Breen, A. V. (2020). Lessons from my dogs: Reflections on animal rights and dog training. Journal of the International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants, 18. https://winter2020.iaabcjournal.org/reflections-on-animal-rights-and-dog-training/

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Breen, A. V., *Falconer, T. A., *Squires, K., *Martin, S., *Swain, A., *Lipinski, E., … *Sams, A. (2023). Ways of knowing and becoming: Learning together in a graduate course on interdisciplinarity. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2023.2.14214

Breen, A. V., *Twigger, K., Duvieusart-Déry, C., *Boulé, J., *Borgo, A., et al. (2018). We learn by doing: Teaching and learning knowledge translation skills at the graduate level. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2018.1.7

*Cairney, K., & Breen, A. V. (2017). Listening to their lives: Learning through narrative in an undergraduate practicum course. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2017.3.3

*Ingram, C. M., Breen, A. V., & Van Rhijn, T. (2017). Teaching for well-being? Introducing mindfulness in an undergraduate course. Journal of Further and Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2017.1409343

Health, Family, and Life-Course Learning Contexts

*Martin, S., *Linares-Roake, J., Breen, A. V., Chalmers, H., Stamatopoulos, V., & Charles, G. (2025). Caring in a new context: Young caregivers’ experiences during COVID-19 in Canada. Child & Youth Services, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2025.2534808

*Linares-Roake, J., Breen, A. V., Chalmers, H., & *Martin, S. (2024). Young caregivers and COVID-19: A care-full approach through post-qualitative inquiry. International Journal of Care and Caring. https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000052

*Iacobucci, M., Smoliak, O., & Breen, A. V. (2022). The experiences of young sibling caregivers: A qualitative study. Canadian Journal of Family and Youth, 14. https://doi.org/10.29173/cjfy29843

*Walton, K., Breen, A. V., Gruson-Wood, J., Jewell, K., Haycraft, E., & Haines, J. (2020). Dishing on dinner: A life course approach to understanding the family meal context among families with preschoolers. Public Health Nutrition.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020001779

Breen, A. V., & Chalmers, H. (2020). Building resilience in COVID-19. Child & Youth Services, 41(3), 235–236. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2020.1834936

*Areguy, F., Mock, S., Breen, A. V., Van Rhijn, T., & Wilson, K. (2019). Communal orientation, benefit finding, and coping among young carers. Child & Youth Services, 40, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2019.1614906

*Walton, K., Horton, N. J., Rifas-Shiman, A., Field, E., Austin, S. B., Haycraft, E., Breen, A. V., & Haines, J. (2018). Exploring the role of family functioning in the association between frequency of family dinners and dietary intake among adolescents and young adults. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.5217

Narrative Identity Across the Life Course

Breen, A. V., *Scott, C., & McLean, K. C. (2019). The “stuff” of narrative identity: Touring big and small stories in emerging adults’ dorm rooms. Qualitative Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000158

Breen, A. V., McLean, K. C., *Cairney, K., & McAdams, D. P. (2016). Movies, books, and identity: Exploring the narrative ecology of the self. Qualitative Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000059

Breen, A. V. (2014). Changing behavior and changing personal identity: The case of pregnant and parenting young women and antisocial behavior. Identity, 14(1), 60–79.

McLean, K. C., *Wood, B., & Breen, A. V. (2013). Reflecting on a difficult life: Narrative construction in vulnerable adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research, 28, 431–452.

Breen, A. V., Lewis, S. P., & Sutherland, O. A. (2013). Brief report: Non-suicidal self-injury in the context of self and identity development. Journal of Adult Development, 20, 57–62.

Sutherland, O. A., Lewis, S., & Breen, A. V. (2013). Discursive narrative analysis: Online autobiographical accounts of self-injury. The Qualitative Report, 18, 1–17.

McLean, K. C., Breen, A. V., & Fournier, M. A. (2010). Constructing the self across adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 20, 166–187.

McLean, K. C., & Breen, A. V. (2009). Processes and content of narrative identity development. Developmental Psychology, 45, 702–710.

Edited Books

Wilson, S., Breen, A. V., & Du Pré, L. (Eds.). (2019). Research as reconciliation: Unsettling ways of knowing through Indigenous relationships. Canadian Scholars Press.

Book Manuscripts (In Preparation)

Du Pré, L., Wilson, S., & Breen, A. V. (Manuscript in preparation). Visiting as Indigenous methodology (Working title).

Breen, A. V. (Manuscript in preparation). Following Olive (Creative non-fiction; working title). Represented by Cooke McDermid Literary Agency.

Refereed Book Chapters

Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Decolonial Pedagogies

*Perchak, S., Breen, A. V., & Anderson, K. (2025). Indigenizing the classroom: Bringing critical kinship to family studies. In O. Smoliak, E. Tseliou, T. Strong, S. Bava, & P. Muntigl (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of postmodern therapies (pp.533-544). Routledge.

Rice, C., Dion, S., Fowlie, H., & Breen, A. V. (2024). Identifying and working through settler ignorance. In G. Vass & M. Hogarth (Eds.), Critical studies and the international field of Indigenous education research. Routledge.

Wilson, S., Breen, A. V., & Du Pré, L. (2021). Mining for culture or researching for justice? Unsettling psychology through Indigenist conversation. In K. C. McLean (Ed.), Cultural methods in psychology: Describing and transforming cultures (pp. 410-426). Oxford University Press.

Breen, A. V. (2019). You do not belong here: Storying allyship in an ugly sweater. In S. Wilson, A. V. Breen, & L. Du Pré (Eds.), Research as reconciliation: Unsettling ways of knowing through Indigenous relationships (pp. 61-72). Canadian Scholars Press.

Narrative Identity Development

Breen, A. V., & McLean, K. C. (2017). The intersection of personal and master narratives: Is redemption for everyone? In B. Schiff, E. McKim, & S. Patron (Eds.), Life and narrative: The risks and responsibilities of storying experience (pp. 197–213). Oxford University Press.

McLean, K. C., & Breen, A. V. (2016). Selves in a world of stories during emerging adulthood. In J. Arnett (Ed.), Oxford handbook of emerging adulthood (pp. 385–420). Oxford University Press.

Breen, A. V., & McLean, K. C. (2010). Constructing resilience: Adolescent motherhood and the potential for self-transformation. In K. C. McLean & M. Pasupathi (Eds.), Narrative development in adolescence: Creating the storied self. Springer.

Invited Reference Works

Breen, A. V., & Schroeder, K. (In press). Human–animal studies. In T. Teo (Ed.), The Palgrave encyclopedia of theoretical and philosophical psychology. Palgrave Macmillan.

Works in press/under review/in preparation (Selected)

Van Patter, L., *Cortese, A., *Linares-Roake, J., Cudworth, E., & Breen, A. V. (In press). Respecting and suppressing dogness: Humans’ perceptions of companion animal needs and emotions. Society & Animals.

*Linares-Roake, J., Van Patter, L., Rice, C., Cudworth, E., & Breen, A. V. (Revised and resubmitted). Cripping multispecies care: Disability, ableism, and speciesism in multispecies homes. Disability Studies Quarterly.

Cudworth, E., Van Patter, L., *Linares-Roake, J., Rice, C., & Breen, A. V. (Revised and resubmitted). Crazy dog moms? Gendering relational differences and parental parallels in multispecies families. Journal of Family Studies.

Linares-Roake, J., *Sader, R., & Breen, A. V. (Revised and resubmitted). Dog–human play: A scoping review. Anthrozoös.

*Delfs, E., Du Pré, L., Wilson, S., & Breen, A. V. (Under review). “Maybe it’s not said, maybe it’s shown”: Indigenous pedagogy and knowledge emergence through classroom visiting. In E. Posca (Ed.), Indigenization & decolonization.

Breen, A. V. (In preparation). Attachment theory has gone to the dogs: A critical intervention (Working title).

Arts-based community scholarship

Breen, A. V. (Principal Investigator). (2024). Human–Animal Playful Interactions (HAPI).
Community-engaged digital storytelling research-creation project examining adult learning through human–animal play; digital stories co-created with nine adult co-researchers.

Breen, A. V. (Director & Producer). (2024). Play is becoming. RedLab.
Research-creation film exploring adult learning, relationality, and becoming through human–animal play.

Breen, A. V. (Director & Producer). (2016). The stories beneath. RedLab, with contributions from Susan Dion and Carla Rice (Centre for Aboriginal Education).
Research-creation film grounded in Indigenous and narrative approaches to relational learning and storying experience.

Breen, A. V. (Co-Investigator). (2015). nIshnabek de’bwe wIn // Telling Our Truths: Aboriginal People and Allies in Urban Schools Using Technology, Telling Stories and Making Change. (PI: Carla Rice and Susan Dion). Collaborated to produce digital stories with Aboriginal teachers and artists in collaboration with 3 school boards.

Non-Academic Publications

MacDonald, D., Breen, A., & Jacobs, N. (2022, June). ‘End the genocide’: Little action on MMIWG calls for justice in the 3 years since the national inquiry concluded. The Conversation. 

Breen, A. (2021, January). Is your new dog nipping, humping. or playing rough with your kids? Today’s Parent.

Breen, A. (2021, January). 6 ways to make sure your dog gets along with your kids. Today’s Parent.

Blog Posts 

Great online training courses for dog caregivers (June, 2022).

New puppy socialization (May, 2022)

Empty Nest Dogs, (May, 2022). The DoGenius Institute.

Some thoughts on sexual violence and children’s relationships with dogs. (September, 2021).

How much “well” is in welfare? (December, 2020). The DoGenius Institute.

It’s time to care for our young carers (May, 2016). The Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness.

Dignity, belonging, & resilience in Arviat (November, 2015). The Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness.

The friendship stairs (co-authored with Francesca Kurtz) (May, 2015). The Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness.