Monique Tschofen
The two prongs of my current research are art and philosophy, and research creation. On the scholarly front, I write on the idea of theory from the 4th century BCE to today, and I ask about how digital literature, installation art, poetry, painting, and cinema can be acts of theory. My current research-creation projects, The Decameron 2.0 (2022) and Memory Eternal (2023), are undertaken with nine research-creators from across Canada,
Juried Exhibitions
Memory Eternal Вічная Пам'ять: Book of Mourning. Electronic Literature Association Media Arts Festival. VR storyworld. Coimbra, Portugal, July 12-15, 2023.
Decameron 2.0. Electronic Literature Association Media Arts Festival, Como Italy, May 30-June 1, 2022.
Non-juried Exhibitions
The Decameron Collective - Decameron 2.0: Feminist Collaborative Digital Storytelling in the New Age of the Plague. RUBIX 2022 Digital Exhibits, TMU University. https://www.TMU.ca/the-catalyst/rubix-2022/digital-exhibits/
Refereed Publications
“’The Sight of a Reason’: Philosophical Thinking as a Plastic Art in Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraits.” Modernism/Modernity. Submitted. 2024
2023 “Becoming M/other: Materialities in Ali Abbasi’s Border.” Imaginations: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 14.1 2023.
2021 Liu, Lulu, and Jin Sol Kim. “In Conversation with the Decameron 2.0,” Electronic Book Review September 12, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7273/RQDE-MQ56.
2019 Tschofen, M., Lai-Tze Fan, Nataleah Hunter-Young, and Dan Browne. “Reforming Critique: Critical Making as Method and Practice.” Reviewing Comparative Literature in Canada: Issues of Scholarship, Pedagogy and Publishing in the Contemporary Conjuncture. Eds. Susan Ingram and Irene Sywenky. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press. 135-157.
2018 “Ted Blodgett and the Pedagogy of Wonder.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 45.4 (2018): 541–544.
2018 “Exile, Media, Capital: Calendar’s Systems of Exchange.” Comparative Literature in Canada. Ed. Giulia De Gasperi and Joseph Pivato. Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2015 “The Digital Denkbild: Caitlin Fisher’s New Media Art as Philosophy.” Theory, Culture and Society. 33.5 (2016): 139-157
2013 “Drawing Out a New Image of Thought: Anne Carson’s Radical Ekphrasis.” Word and Image 29.2 (2013): 233-243.
2010 “Ripple Effects.” Interview with Atom Egoyan. Atom Egoyan: Interviews. Ed. T. J. Morris. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. Reprinted from Image and Territory, eds. Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell.
Sample of supervised ComCult projects:
2023, GRIFFEN HORSLEY, MA Thesis, "Necromancy: A Hauntology of Grief, Material Culture, and Research Creation"
2021, PAUL COUILLARD, PhD: Rethinking Presence with a Thinking Body: Intra-Active Relationality and Animate Form."
2021, RENÉE LEBLANC-PROCTOR, MA thesis: “I am inevitable”: Seriality, Nostalgia and the Marvel Cinematic Universe."
2021, KATHLEEN BALLANTYNE, MA MRP: Viewing the Spectacular Body of Modernity: Bourgeois Identity and the Body of the Other.
2021, HOLLY CHANG, MA Project: Stitching the Story of Chinese-Canadian Histories: Quilting as an Archival Medium."
2020, DANIEL BROWNE, PhD: Mediated Landscapes: Technology and Environment in Recent Canadian Cinema."
2018, EMMA SHARPE, MA Project: Feeled Recordings: An Embodied Exploration of Archival Ephemera."
2018, EMILY PLEASANCE, MA Project: A/R/Tography as a Method of Awe: An A/R/Tographic Inquiry of The Canadian North."
2017, 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.
2016, LAI-TZE FAN, PhD: Pre | Digital Liminalities: A Hermeneutics of the Intermedial and Materiality in the Print Intermedial Novel.
2015, EVREN OCZELCUK, PHD: “Turkey’s Internal Other: Embodiments Of Taşra In The Works Of Orhan Pamuk, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, And Fatih Akin.”
2013, ALEKSANDRA BIDA, PHD: “Mapping Home: Literary and Filmic Representations of Multi-scalar Dwelling"
2012, KELLY EGAN, PHD: “The Projector’s Noises: A Media Archaeology of the Cinema Through The Projector.”
2011 ANGELA JOOSSE. PHD: “Made from Movement: Marie Menken’s Arabesque, Richard Serra’s Torque, and Michael Snow’s This/Dat/Cela.”
2005, AMANDA GRAHAM. MA: “Surfaces Tell Stories: Oscar Muñoz and the Art of Experiencing Images.”
2005, HEATHER DAVIS. “Absence as the Mechanized Dreamwork of Colonial Landscapes.”
2003 ETOILE STEWART (Co-supervised with Liora Salter) “Transgressive Actions and Public Space.” Communications and Culture.
2003 SARA CHAN. (Co-supervised with Jody Berland.) Imaginary Soundscapes: Electronic Music Culture and the Aesthetics of the Virtual.”
2003, CHRISTINE JOHNS, “Mapping the Canadian Landscape: The Performing Arts and Experiential Perspectives.” Toronto Metropolitan University, Communications and Culture. April 23, 2003.
ComCult Teaching Activities
- CC 8921 Visual Culture
- CC 9904 Perspectives in Commun and Culture Studies