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I am a feminist theorist of research-creation and critical making, and write about the relationship between art and theory.
I am a feminist theorist of research-creation and critical making, and write about the relationship between art and theory.
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.
Tschofen, Monique., 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, 2020.
Tschofen, Monique. “The Digital Denkbild: Caitlin Fisher’s New Media Art as Philosophy.” Theory, Culture and Society. 2015. 1-19
Tschofen, Monique. "Philosophical Thinking as a Plastic Art: Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraits," under revise and resubmit to Modernism/Modernity
My latest research projects are moving me into the areas of feminist new materialisms.
My latest research projects are moving me into the areas of feminist new materialisms.
Tschofen, Monique. “Becoming Matter/Becoming Mother: Wilding in Ali Abbasi’s Border (Gräns).” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2, Dec. 2023, pp. 149–74. imaginationsjournal.ca, https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29700.
Border (Gräns) (2018). Directed by Ali Abbasi, cinematography by Nadim Carlsen. ©Meta Spark & Kärnfilm. Reproduced with permission.
Working in research creation means we make creative works and then theorize them.
Scholarship about The Decameron 2.0
Publications about the Decameron 2.0
Publications about the Decameron 2.0
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
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.” University of Toronto Quarterly. Representing a (Post)Pandemic World, special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 93, no. 4, 2024, pp. 612-52. https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/utq.93.04.06
Conferences
Conferences
Monique Tschofen, Angela Joosse and Jolene Armstrong. “Speculative Archives and Creative DH.” New Directions in Digital Humanities Conference. Carleton University. May 6, 2022.
With Jolene Armstrong, Siobhan O’Flynn, Kari Maaren, and Angela Joosse. “Create-a-Thon: Digital Story-telling Practice and Creation as Feminist Collaboration, and Care,” Unconference 2023, Electronic Literature Organization. Jan 17, 2023.
Panel organizer. “Speculative Archives and World Building: The Decameron 2.0.” ELO (Electronic Literature Association and Media Arts Festival), Como, Italy. May 28-June 1 2022
Tschofen, Monique. “Epistemologies of Layering.” ELO (Electronic Literature Association and Media Arts Festival), Como, Italy. May 28-June 1.
Tschofen, Monique. “Intertextual Scholarship and the Aristotle Suites as Co-Creation.” ACLC/CCLA - Canadian Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. June 2022
With Jolene Armstrong, Kelly Egan, Lai-Tze Fan, Angela Joosse, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, The Decameron 2.0.” Centre for Digital Humanities, Toronto Metropolitan University, March 17, 2022.
Jolene Armstrong, Monique Tschofen, Siobhan O'Flynn, Angela Joosse, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof. “Make one, pass it on: Digital Story-telling Practice and Creation as Feminist Collaboration, and Care, with the Decameron Collective.” PhilosoPHIA Conference, Mount Royal University, Calgary, March 16, 2024.
Angela Joosse, Jolene Armstrong, Monique Tschofen. "Lessons in Project Management for Research Creation: The Decameron Collective." Project Managment in the Humanities Conference, DHSI, Victoria BC, June 5, 2024.
Scholarship about Memory Eternal
Publications about Memory Eternal
Publications about Memory Eternal
Armstrong, Jolene, Monique Tschofen, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, and Angela Joosse. "What the Body Remembers: VR as Site of Preservation in Memory Eternal | Вічная Пам'ять" MATLIT Materialities of Literature Volume 11 (2024). https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/15991/10815
O'Flynn, Siobhan, Jolene Armstrong, Monique Tschofen, Angela Joosse, Kari Maaren, Caitlin Fisher, Lai-Tze Fan, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan. “Memory Eternal: Speculative Memory-alizations and Possible Futures. ” Convergence (abstract accepted by editors, paper submitted.)
Joosse, Angela, Monique Tschofen and Jolene Armstrong. "Lessons in Project Management: The Decameron Collective." Submitted to IDEAH (Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities), Jan 2025.
Conferences
Conferences
Monique Tschofen, Jolene Armstrong, Angela Joosse, Siobhan O'Flynn, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan, Caitlin Fisher, Lai-Tze Fan. "Digital Humanities as Memory Work: Memory Eternal as a Virtual Site of Mourning.” Digital Humanities (DH) at Michigan State University (MSU) - Global DH Symposium. March 18-20, 2024.
Armstrong, Jolene, Monique Tschofen, Kari Maaren, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, and Angela Joosse. “Mourning, memory, and immersive empathy in “Memory eternal” Вічная Пам'ять: Book of Mourning, Electronic Literature Association Annual Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, 2023.
Armstrong, Jolene, Monique Tschofen, Caitlin Fisher, Siobhan O'Flynn, Kari Maaren. "Virtuality of Grief." New Media Writing Prize Unconference, May 14, 2024.
Armstrong, Jolene, Monique Tschofen. Emergence as Method: the Virtuality of Grief and Remembrance in Memory Eternal. Interactive Film and Media conference, June 2024.
Film Studies
Film Studies
I'm also a scholar of film studies and comparative literature.
My edited collection of essays on Atom Egoyan, edited with Jennifer Burwell, was the first Canadian collection on his work, and the first to represent his work in film, installation, theatre, and opera in one volume. It was the first to collect essays thinking through Egoyan's response to the Armenian diaspora.
I have also published on Ali Abbasi, Jean-Claude Lauzon, and Isabel Coixet.
Ed, with Jennifer Burwell. Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006
Featured reviews:
Tschofen, Monique. “Exile, Media, Capital: Calendar’s Systems of Exchange.” Comparative Literature in the New Century. Eds. Guilia De Gasperi, Joseph Pivato. McGill-Queen’s, 2018.
Tschofen, Monique. “Repetition, Compulsion, and Representation in Atom Egoyan’s Films.” North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema: 1980 to 2000. Eds. William Beard and Jerry White. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 2002. 166-83.
Tschofen, Monique. “My Life Without Me” in Routledge Encylopedia of Film. Ed. John White. London: Routledge, 2015. 366-369
Tschofen, Monique. “The Sweet Hereafter” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Film. Ed. John White. London: Routledge, 2015. 502-504.
Tschofen, Monique “Le Confessional/The Confessional.” The Cinema of Canada. Ed. Jerry White. London: Wallflower P, 2006. 205-15.
Tschofen, Monique. “Speaking a/part: Modalities of Translation in Atom Egoyan’s Work.” London Journal of Canadian Studies 21 (2005/6): 29-48.
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
In my scholarship on Canadian literature, I think about women's voices, interarts relationships, especially the relationship between word and image, and media.
In my scholarship on Canadian literature, I think about women's voices, interarts relationships, especially the relationship between word and image, and media.
Tschofen, Monique. “‘First I must tell about seeing’: (De)monstrations of Visuality and the Dynamics of Metaphor in Carson’s Autobiography of Red.” Canadian Literature 180 (2004): 31-50.
Tschofen, Monique. “Drawing Out a New Image of Thought: Anne Carson’s Radical Ekphrasis.” Word and Image. 29.2 (2013): 233-243.
Tschofen, Monique. “Ted Blodgett and the Pedagogy of Wonder.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature Dec 2018
Tschofen, Monique. “Agents of Aggressive Order”: Letters, Hands, and the Grasping Power of Teeth in the Early Canadian Torture Narrative. MediaTropes 1 (2008)
Edited collection: Tschofen, Monique, ed. Kristjana Gunnars: Essays on her Work. Guernica Press 2004.
Editing
Editing
I sit on the advisory board for the biannual journal Interfaces: Image / Texte / Language.
Created in 1991, Interfaces is an open access semiannual journal. Bilingual, it focuses on intermediality, on the relationship between text(s) and image(s), art and literature, history and visual sources as well as extending to the history of the visual arts and the epistemology of images. The journal is co-edited by the Université de Bourgogne, the College of the Holy Cross, and the Université Paris Cité.
Issues 1 to 35 are available on Persée.
I have co-edited, with Lai-Tze Fan, a special issue of the journal Imaginations: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, titled Vibrant Materialities Across Media, Literature, and Theory / Numéro spécial : Matérialités vibrantes à travers les médias, la littérature et la théorie (14.2 2023).
The special issue represents work from the Canadian Comparative Literature Working Group on Media and Materialities I co-led with Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Lai-Tze Fan.
Interviews
Interviews
Liu, Lulu, and Jin Sol Kim. In Conversation with the Decameron 2.0. Electronic Book Review, 2021.
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