Julia Polyck-O’Neill

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Position

Assistant Professor

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Humanities (University of Guelph)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology / Visual Art and Art History (York University)

  • PhD, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Culture and Aesthetics (Brock University)

  • MA, Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts (Brock University)

  • BFA, Visual Art, English Concentration (University of Ottawa)

Contact Information

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

  • “Inscribing 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 “The Kinetic Archive,” vol. 48, no. 1, March 2022, pp. 45–63.

  • “Adrian Piper: Procedure, Intimate Inquiry, Archives.” Eds. Jane Malcolm and Sarah Dowling, special issue of Amodern “Body and/as Procedure,” no. 11, https://amodern.net/article/adrian-piper/.

  • “Archives, Intimacy, Embodiment: Encountering the Sound Subject in the Literary Archive." Eds. Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod, special issue of English Studies in Canada, “New Sonic Approaches in Literary Studies” vol. 46 no. 2 – 4, June/September/December 2020, pp. 47­–62.

  • “Reconsidering the Photographic Encounter: Materiality, Conceptualist Photography, Sublimation, and the Subject.” Eds. Christian Berger and Annika Schlitte, special issue of Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und AllgemeineKunstwissenschaft (The Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History) no. 19, 2021, pp. 393–412.

  • “Lisa Robertson’s Archive: The Feminist Archive, Singular and Collective.” Ed. Jason Wiens, special issue of English Studies in Canada “Pedagogies of the Archive” vol. 44, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 75–100.

  • “The Hyperobject and the White Cube: The ‘Strange Stranger’ in Douglas Coupland’s Canada House.” DeGruyter Open Cultural Studies vol. 2 no. 1, 2018, pp. 406–416.

  • “Contesting Vancouver: Case Studies in a Cultural Imaginary.” Introduction to Special Issue on “Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media.” Canadian Literature no. 235, Winter 2017, pp. 6–11. With Gregory Betts.

  • “Survivance, Signs, and Media Art Histories: New Temporalities and Productive Tensions in Dana Claxton’s Made to Be Ready.” BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly no. 195, Autumn 2017, pp. 129–144.

 

Book Chapters

  • “Relational Spaces: Unpacking an Archive of Emotion in the Garden District.” Toronto Chic. Eds. Katherine Franklin and Rebecca Halliday. University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.

  • “Joyce 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.

  • “Zainub Verjee in Conversation with Julia Polyck-O’Neill.” Variable Conditions: Para-computational Arts in Canada, 1965–1995. Ed. Adam Lauder, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023, pp. 318–332.

  • “Reimagining 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. 93–110.

  • “Vancouver’s 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. 133–155.

  • “Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts.” Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries. Eds. Gregory Betts and Christian Bök, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2019, pp. 79–94. 

 

Edited Journal Issues

  • Canadian Literature. A Special Issue on “Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media”. Co-edited and Introduction with Gregory Betts. No. 235, Winter 2017. (Published Fall 2018)

 

Podcast Episodes

  • “Lisa Robertson and the Feminist Archive.” The SpokenWeb Podcast S3, E2, November 2021.

 

Creative Writing

  • Material Process (working title). Poetry Book. Talonbooks, forthcoming.

  • Process. Poetry Chapbook. above/ground press, April 2024.

  • “what we can know.” 1 poem. The Capilano Review issue 3.50, In(ter)ventions in the Archive, Summer 2023, pp. 33–38.

  • Material. Poetry Chapbook (digital). Model Press, December 2020.

  • “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.

  • poem / image / self: Adrian Piper’s Catalysis. Poetry Chapbook. above/ground press, April 2019

  • Everything will be taken away. Poetry Chapbook. above/ground press, August 2018.

  • “ferment/foment.” 5 Poems. Fermenting Feminisms. Ed, Lauren Fournier. Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, September 2017.

  • Femme. Poetry Chapbook. above/ground press, October 2016.

 

Current Research Projects

  • Potential Archives: Access, Collaboration, Community

  • Vancouver’s Critical Conceptualism in Visual Art and Poetry (manuscript)

  • Digital Arts Preservation Initiatives and Policy in Canadian Contexts

  • The Debt Archive