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Dr. Jolene Armstrong
Dr. Jolene Armstrong
Associate Professor
Contact information
Email: jolenea@athabascau.ca
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Jolene is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, artist, photographer, poet, writer, translator. Her creative and translated work has recently appeared in Galaxy Brain, Peatsmoke Journal, and MacroMicrocosm, and will soon appear in Wildroof Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, The Hunger Mountain Review and The Society for Misfit Stories. She is particularly interested in the intersection of art and literature and the potential that immersive environments present as storytelling mediums. Jolene has two academic books, Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics (2015) and an edited collection Maria Campbell: Essays on her works (2012). Her essay, “Peasant Boots, Dancing Boots: Assimilation in Vera Lysenko’s Yellow Boots and Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms” was published in the collection: Comparative Literature for the New Century (2018). Most recently, Jolene has been a member of a creative/scholarly collaboration, The Decameron Collective, which is actively building an immersive web-based VR experience, a feminist collective that is responding creatively and academically to the Covid-19 pandemic, with an anticipated launch in Spring 2022. Jolene also created and runs the digital Museum of Ephemera (https://museumofephemera.omeka.net/) a virtual museum in which the public can contribute ephemeral items, search for information and resources on various ephemera. Jolene spent many years serving her Faculty Association as Constituency representative, Secretary, Vice-President and President. In her spare time, she assembles in images and words the shimmering, sometimes terrifying, ephemeral beauty that marks our collective existence on this blue planet. She lives and works in Amiskwaciy-Wâskahikan, treaty 6 territory (Edmonton) with her two kids and a menagerie of weird pets and projects strewn about her house.
Research interests
- Canadian/Quebec Literature
- American Literature
- Harlem Renaissance
- Latin American/Caribbean Literature
- Scandinavian Literature
- Folklore and Fairytales
- Boccaccio's Decameron
- Electronic Literature, immersive storytelling, film, new media
- Research Creation
- Literary Theory
- Feminist theory and literature
Educational credentials
- PhD University of Alberta, Comparative Literature, 2003
- BA, University of Alberta, Anthropology, 1992
Professional affiliations
- CCLA
- ACCUTE