Julia Polyck-O’Neill

Position
Assistant Professor
Education
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Humanities (University of Guelph)
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology / Visual Art and Art History (York University)
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PhD, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Culture and Aesthetics (Brock University)
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MA, Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts (Brock University)
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BFA, Visual Art, English Concentration (University of Ottawa)
Contact Information
- Office: AA 3011
- Telephone: (709) 864-8742
- Email: jpolyckoneill@mun.ca
Teaching and Research Interests
Critical Archives; Digital Humanities; Digital Media Studies; Critical Posthumanism; Feminist Theory and Philosophy; Contemporary Poetry; Autotheory and Autofiction; Media Art History; Cultural Policy; Contemporary Aesthetic Theory
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- 淚nscribing History and the Future Together: Digital, Feminist Methods and Relationality in the Interdisciplinary Artist Archive. Eds. Linda Morra and Gregory Betts, special issue of English Studies in Canada 淭he Kinetic Archive, vol. 48, no. 1, March 2022, pp. 4563.
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淎drian Piper: Procedure, Intimate Inquiry, Archives. Eds. Jane Malcolm and Sarah Dowling, special issue of Amodern 淏ody and/as Procedure, no. 11, .
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淎rchives, Intimacy, Embodiment: Encountering the Sound Subject in the Literary Archive." Eds. Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod, special issue of English Studies in Canada, 淣ew Sonic Approaches in Literary Studies vol. 46 no. 2 4, June/September/December 2020, pp. 47颅62.
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淩econsidering the Photographic Encounter: Materiality, Conceptualist Photography, Sublimation, and the Subject. Eds. Christian Berger and Annika Schlitte, special issue of Zeitschrift f眉r 脛sthetik und AllgemeineKunstwissenschaft (The Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History) no. 19, 2021, pp. 393412.
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淟isa Robertson檚 Archive: The Feminist Archive, Singular and Collective. Ed. Jason Wiens, special issue of English Studies in Canada 淧edagogies of the Archive vol. 44, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 75100.
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淭he Hyperobject and the White Cube: The 楽trange Stranger in Douglas Coupland檚 Canada House. DeGruyter Open Cultural Studies vol. 2 no. 1, 2018, pp. 406416.
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淐ontesting Vancouver: Case Studies in a Cultural Imaginary. Introduction to Special Issue on 淐oncepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media. Canadian Literature no. 235, Winter 2017, pp. 611. With Gregory Betts.
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淪urvivance, Signs, and Media Art Histories: New Temporalities and Productive Tensions in Dana Claxton檚 Made to Be Ready. BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly no. 195, Autumn 2017, pp. 129144.
Book Chapters
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淩elational Spaces: Unpacking an Archive of Emotion in the Garden District. Toronto Chic. Eds. Katherine Franklin and Rebecca Halliday. University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
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淛oyce Wieland, Archival Subjectivities, and Feminist Futures: Media, Remediation, and Relationality in the Feminist Archive. Imagined Archives. Eds. Paula Burleigh and Nikki Georgopulos. Vernon Press, forthcoming.
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淶ainub Verjee in Conversation with Julia Polyck-O橬eill. Variable Conditions: Para-computational Arts in Canada, 19651995. Ed. Adam Lauder, McGill-Queen檚 University Press, 2023, pp. 318332.
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淩eimagining Representational Codes in Data Visualization: What Contemporary Digital Humanities Might Learn from Visual Arts-Based Disciplines. Future Horizons: Digital Humanities in Canada. Eds. Paul Barrett and Sarah Roger, University of Ottawa Press, 2023, pp. 93110.
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淰ancouver檚 Monuments to Capital: Public Art, Spatial Capital, and Luxury. Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Re-centring Luxury. Eds. Jessica Clark and Nigel Lezama, Intellect Books, 2022, pp. 133155.
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淲ords With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts. Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries. Eds. Gregory Betts and Christian B枚k, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2019, pp. 7994.
Edited Journal Issues
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Canadian Literature. A Special Issue on 淐oncepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media. Co-edited and Introduction with Gregory Betts. No. 235, Winter 2017. (Published Fall 2018)
Podcast Episodes
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淟isa Robertson and the Feminist Archive. The SpokenWeb Podcast S3, E2, November 2021.
Creative Writing
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Material Process (working title). Poetry Book. Talonbooks, forthcoming.
- Process. Poetry Chapbook. above/ground press, April 2024.
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渨hat we can know. 1 poem. The Capilano Review issue 3.50, In(ter)ventions in the Archive, Summer 2023, pp. 3338.
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Material. Poetry Chapbook (digital). Model Press, December 2020.
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15 Words for Power and other poems. 5 poems. Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies vol. 8, no. 1, December 2019.
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poem / image / self: Adrian Piper檚 Catalysis. Poetry Chapbook. above/ground press, April 2019
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Everything will be taken away. Poetry Chapbook. above/ground press, August 2018.
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渇erment/foment. 5 Poems. Fermenting Feminisms. Ed, Lauren Fournier. Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, September 2017.
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Femme. Poetry Chapbook. above/ground press, October 2016.
Current Research Projects
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Potential Archives: Access, Collaboration, Community
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Vancouver檚 Critical Conceptualism in Visual Art and Poetry (manuscript)
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Digital Arts Preservation Initiatives and Policy in Canadian Contexts
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The Debt Archive