Monique Tschofen

Center for Digital Humanities

My current research is in environmental humanities; I work in research-creation modes with a team of fine arts, humanities, social scientists, and scientists to examine and respond to the polycrisis. Other interests include the history of art-as-theory.

Recent publications

R. O’Flynn, Siobhan, Jolene Armstrong, Monique Tschofen, Lai-Tze Fan, Angela Joosse, Caitlin Fisher, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan. “Imagine the World Anew”: Documentary Making, Story-telling Practice and Creation as Feminist Collaboration and Care in a Time of Crisis,” Convergence. Submitted Summer 2023.

R. Joosse, Angela, Monique Tschofen and Jolene Armstrong. "Lessons in Project Management: The Decameron Collective." IDEAH (Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities). In press.

R. Monique Tschofen and Jolene Armstrong. “Emergence as Method: The Virtuality of Grief and Remembrance in Memory Eternal.” Interactive Film & Media Journal, 4.1-2 (2024): https://doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v4i1-2.1987.

R. Tschofen, Monique. "In (a) Critical Condition: Reconsiderations of Krisis, Critique, and Theoria through Research Co-creation." Imaginations: A Cross-Cultural Journal of Image Studies 15.3 (2024): 13-46. https://doi.doi.ororg/10.17742/IMAg/10.17742/IMAGE29715.GE29715

R. Armstrong, Jolene, Monique Tschofen, Angela Joosse, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, and Kari Maaren. “What the Body Remembers: VR as Site of Preservation in Memory Eternal | Вічная Пам'ять.” MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 11.1 (2024): 59-83. https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/15991/10815

R. Tschofen, Monique, Siobhan O’Flynn, Jolene Armstrong, Lai-Tze Fan, Caitlin Fisher, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kari Maaren, Angela Joosse. “A Research-Creation of Care: Feminist Speculation, Collaboration, and Curation in the Digital Virtual Gallery.” Representing a (Post)Pandemic World, special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 93, no. 4, 2024, pp. 612-52. https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.93.04.06

R. Tschofen, Monique and Lai-Tze Fan. “Introduction: Vibrant Materialities Across Media, Literature, and Theory / Introduction: Numéro spécial: Matérialités vibrantes à travers les médias, la littérature et la théorie.” Imaginations: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 14.2 (2023). doi: 10.17742/IMAGE29699

R. Tschofen, Monique. “Becoming Matter/Becoming Mother: Wilding in Ali Abbasi’s Border (Gräns) | Devenir Matière/Devenir Mère en Border (Gräns) d’Ali Abbasi.” Imaginations: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 14.2 (2023) doi: 10.17742/IMAGE29700

Juried Exhibitions

Fire and Water, Jolene Armstrong and Monique Tschofen. Installation. Electronic Literature Organization’s Media Arts Festival. July 10-13, 2025.

Metamorphoses: Love Letters to Shared Futures by the Decameron Collective: Jolene Armstrong, Catilin Fisher, Monique Tschofen, Siobhan O’Flynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan. Electronic Literature Organization’s Media Arts Festival. July 2025

Memory Eternal by the Decameron Collective (Angela Joosse, Jolene Armstrong, Monique Tschofen, Catilin Fisher, Siobhan O’Flynn, Kari Maaren, Lai-Tze Fan, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan). Toronto Metropolitan University Rubix 10th Anniversary. February 27, 2025.

Monique Tschofen. Happenings, Interactive Film and Media Conference, Toronto, June 10-13, 2025. https://scalar.rula.info/happenings/index

Monique Tschofen. Careless Water, International Conference of Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), Baranquilla, Colombia December 2-6, 2024. https://icids2024.ardin.online/art-exhibition/ https://arcg.is/05GXOe0
Memory Eternal by the Decameron Collective (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Lai-Tze Fan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O’Flynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) Interactive Film and Media Conference, Toronto, June 11 2024.

Monique Tschofen. In There Behind the Door, Electronic Literature Organization’s Media Arts Festival, Florida, July 18-21, 2024. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/in-there-behind-the-door-an-exhibition-of-deformances-of-gertrude-stein/index

Decameron 2.0 (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O’Flynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) PhilosoPHIA Conference, Society for Continental Feminism. Mount Royal, Calgary. March 16, 2024.

Decameron 2.0 (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O’Flynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) International International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ICIDS 2023, November 11th-15th, Kobe, Japan.

Memory Eternal Вічная Пам'ять: Book of Mourning by the Decameron Collective (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O’Flynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) Electronic Literature Organization Media Arts Festival. VR storyworld. Coimbra, Portugal, July 12-15, 2023.

Decameron 2.0 by the Decameron Collective (Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Catilin Fisher, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O’Flynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Monique Tschofen) Electronic Literature Organization Media Arts Festival, Como Italy, May 30-June 1, 2022. https://www.elo2022.com/portfolio/tschofen-mareen-joosse-armstrong/

Carrie Sijia Wang, Mark Marino and Monique Tschofen “Chatbot,” included in Carrie Sijia Wang, Rituals of Social Transformation, Brooklyn’s Head Hi, Brooklyn, New York, January 26, 2024.

Documentary Film

Aquaphoria (Before the Waters Rise) (14:16 min film).
Director, Writer, Photographer: Monique Tschofen.
Sound: Hendrick de Haan. Produced by IMPRINT Documentary Collective.

Best Environmental Film: Montreal Women Film Festival 2025; Nominee, LA Independent Women Film Awards 2025; Honorable Mention: Experimental Forum (LA) 2025.

Official Selection: Toronto Short Film Festival (March 13, 2025); Liberty Film Festival (Athens), 2025; Sophia International Film Festival (Bulgaria) (2025); ECOCine International Environmental and Human Rights Film Festival (Brasil) 2025.

ComCult Supervisory Activities

PhD

• Fizza Mir, In progress. “Fashion and Abolition.”
• Azadeh Monzavi, co-supervised with Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof. In progress.
• Olivia Trono (PhD). In progress.
• Paul Couillard (PhD). “Rethinking Presence as a Thinking Body: Intra-Active Relationality and Animate Form.” York, Communications and Culture. July 23, 2021.
• Daniel Browne (PhD). “Mediated Landscapes: Technology and Environment in Recent Canadian Cinema.” TMU, Communications and Culture. April 29, 2020.
• Brooke Ford (PhD). “The Case for Graphic Counter-Memorials in The Comics of Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli” Co-supervised with Andrew O’Malley. TMU, Communications and Culture. August 14, 2017.
• Lai-Tze Fan (PhD). “Pre | Digital Liminalities: A Hermeneutics of
  the Intermedial and Materiality in the Print Intermedial Novel. 2011-2016.
• Evren Oczelcuk (PhD). “Turkey’s Internal Other: Embodiments of Taşra in the Works of Orhan Pamuk, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Fatih Akin.” York University, Communications and Culture. 2005 - 2015.
• Aleksandra Bida (PhD). “Sweet-bitter Home: Roots/Routes and Identity.” 2008-2013.
• Kelly Egan (PhD). “Towards an Aesthetic of Visual Music: Film as Technological Transgression, Acoustic Space and Sounding the Absurd.” 2012.
• Angela Joosse (PhD). “Made from Movement: Marie Menken's Arabesque, Richard Serra's Torque, and Michael Snow's This & That.” 2011.

MA

• Dylan Aslop (MA) “Climate Crisis, Youth, and Media: A Story Analysis of Geo-Doc Videos as Agents for Social Transformation.” Communications and Culture. August 13, 2024.
• Griffen Horsley (MA) Communications and Culture. “Remediating the Necromancer: Abstracted Photoscanning and the Materiality of Grief.” September 5, 2023.
• Dhvani Ramanujam. Communications and Culture. “Screening (Im)Materiality: On Virtually Programming planetary ruins & other possibilities.” August 24, 2022.
• Quentin Stuckey (MA). Literatures of Modernity. “’All Eyes On Me’: Pandemic-Induced Mental Illness And Performance In Bo Burnham’s Inside.” August 2021.
• Renée Leblanc Proctor (MA). “I am inevitable”: Seriality, Nostalgia and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. TMU. Communications and Culture. September 8, 2021.
• Holly Chang. (MA) “Stitching the Story of Chinese-Canadian Histories: Quilting as an Archival Medium.” TMU. Communications and Culture. August 19, 2021.
• Kathleen Ballantyne (MA) “Viewing the Spectacular Body of Modernity: Bourgeois Identity and the Body of the Other.” TMU, Communications and Culture, August 23, 2021.

ComCult Teaching Activities

• CC 8921 Visual Culture
  
• CC 9904 Perspectives in Commun and Culture Studies