Monique Tschofen is Associate Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, and the Joint York-Toronto Metropolitan Graduate Program in Communications and Culture, a scholar of new media, visual culture, Canadian studies, and globalization, and a digital storyteller, working with poetry, sound art, and experimental film. Her publications include textbooks on film and literature, literature and multimedia, and literary hypertext, as well as edited collections of essays on Canadian writers and filmmaker Atom Egoyan. Her research theorizes the relationship between art and philosophy, asking about the conditions under which an artwork can be an “act of theory," looking at Gertrude Stein, digital installation art, experimental cinema, and ekphrastic poetry.  

More recently, she was a founding member of the feminist Decameron Collective, a group of nine interdisciplinary scholar-creators from across Canada, whose interdisciplinary, public-facing projects emerge from a practice of collaborative research co-creation anchored in care ethics. Investigations of past and present moments experiment with creative digital humanities and research creation methodologies. With the members of the Collective, Monique has produced and exhibited two digital storyworlds and co-created a body of over twenty sound and video works, chapbooks and artbooks, as well as hosted workshops, conference presentations, and written manifestos and scholarly papers about the implications of this collaborative, living archive. Fusing poetry, algorithmic generation, digital photography, animation, and sound art, with the histories of manuscript culture and book making, Monique's work tests the possibilities of digital worldbuilding and feminist collaborative co-creation by generating new works and scholarship about them.  This work has been acknowledged internationally, with Honorable Mention for the Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature (Decameron 2.0, 2022), the Digital Humanities Award (Memory Eternal, 2023), and shortlisted for the Wonderbox Digital Opening Up - New Media Writing Prize (Memory Eternal, 2023).  Forthcoming Decameron Collective works include a capstone exhibition with new work in Augmented Reality using handmade artbooks called Metamorphoses: Love Letters to Futures.

Her works with Jolene Armstrong include an installation Fire and Water, and an interactive documentary called Solastalgia, selected for juried exhibition in Toronto at ELO and in Brasil in the fall. 

Her solo projects have been exhibited internationally. Careless Water (2024) was selected for juried exhibition at ICIDS (International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling) in Baranquilla, Colombia. In There Behind the Door (2024) was selected for juried exhibition at the Electronic Literature Organization's Media Arts Festival.  Happenings: A Tragico-Lyrical Philosophical Essay was shortlisted for both the Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize and the Social Good Prize in the 2024 New Media Writing Prize (UK).

In 2024-25, she was a Visiting Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto, and began creating a body of works that move her even more explicitly into feminist and environmental spaces. Aquaphoria (Before the Waters Rise), awarded best environmental documentary of the Montreal Women Film Festival 2025, was also a nominee for the LA Independent Women Film Awards, received Honorable Mention in the Experimental Forum (Los Angeles) (2025), and was an official selection of the Toronto Short Film Festival.