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Jeanne-Marie is a scholar and lecturer at UniSA Creative in the field of contemporary literature & visual culture. In her interdisciplinary teaching and research she is primarily occupied by the problem of the apparent gap between the way people view their experiences and how they communicate them; and how this gets in the way of solving social problems & imagining new futures. Because contemporary visual literature such as comics and animated documentary films seems to perform this problem, she often teaches and researches these forms of communication through a humanities lens. Her work is thus about the unique role that art & aesthetics plays in helping us think through intractable problems in contemporary... Read more
About me
Jeanne-Marie is a scholar and lecturer at UniSA Creative in the field of contemporary literature & visual culture. In her interdisciplinary teaching and research she is primarily occupied by the problem of the apparent gap between the way people view their experiences and how they communicate them; and how this gets in the way of solving social problems & imagining new futures. Because contemporary visual literature such as comics and animated documentary films seems to perform this problem, she often teaches and researches these forms of communication through a humanities lens. Her work is thus about the unique role that art & aesthetics plays in helping us think through intractable problems in contemporary times because of the ways in which different art forms help us capture what lies beyond language & help us envision situations in which experience/data may not be immediately visible. This has lead her to focus on applying aesthetic theory, postcolonial theory, affect theory and theories of haptic visuality to visual and textual communications and media (including interview transcripts and literary forms), in order to study problems with the representation of marginal groups & stigmatised experiences.
Her interdisciplinary international training as well as living and working in contested states with violent histories (such as Apartheid South Africa, Cyprus & Australia) drive her engagement with marginalisation and decolonisation. This work has lead to publications, presentations, research supervision and the design and delivery of courses on the use of images to communicate trauma. Her work on mobile learning has lead to research projects and teaching tools designed to bridge the gap between the physical and the digital in the design of learning environments.
Her work on contemporary media arts & literature; language & digital learning support has lead to successful research collaborations and three internal and two external grants. Her current projects include: writing a book in graphic medicine about how comics may help us envision women’s mental health; being chief investigator on grants projects using comics to prevent suicide in young men in farming & supporting neurodiverse comics creators.
She is a member of the ‘Creative People, Products and Places (CP3’) research concentration in the University's 'Transforming Societies' research stream and an associate member of the 'National Enterprise for Rural Community Wellbeing' at UniSA. She is an external examiner and reviewer of several national and international universities and journals. She is also a member of the following professional organisations: The Institute of Postcolonial Studies (Melbourne); The Memory Studies Association & The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia.
About me
2023 - present, reviewer for at de arte Journal (for decolonisation, art & comic books).
2022- present, member of the Association for the study of Australian Literature
2020 – member, Memory Studies Association
2016 – present, reviewer for Social Identities Journal (UK)
2016 – present, member of Cultural Studies Association of Australasia & reviewer for 'Continuum'
2012 – present, reviewer for English Academy Review (RSA)
About me
Date | Title |
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28/12/2023 |
Charl Blignaut Arts, Culture & Society Editor at The Conversation Africa reached out to ask what's not to love about Marvel's Black Panther film franchise., https://theconversation.com/black-panther-wakanda-forever-and-the-problem-with-hollywood-an-african-perspective-219232 |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Master of Arts University of Pretoria
Honours Bachelor of Arts University of South Africa
Bachelor of Arts University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults University of Cambridge
English Studies lecturer, University of South Africa, 2011- 2012
Reading & writing facilitator, University of South Africa, 2010 - 2011
Research Assistant, Witwatersrand Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2009-2010
Learning materials developer, Unit for Distance Education, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2002 - 2008
Lecturer in English literature & instructional design, Girne American University, North Cyprus, 2007
External grant funded research projects:
Arts & Health Alliance Grant funded project – Supporting Neurodivergent Comics Creators (with WritersSA, Dr Jessica White, AProf Kylie Cardell, Jessica Alice, AProf Lydia Woodyett, Dr Aaron Humphrey, Ms Jo Mignone, Dr Katerina Bryant, Dr Edith Hill).
Wellbeing SA funded project - Tailoring Suicide Prevention Strategies to Men inFarming Occupations (with Prof Lia Bryant, Dr Rosie Roberts, Dr David Radford & Dr Donovan Doreen).
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Currently supervising a vacation research scholarship recipient doing research on ‘Supporting Neurodiverse Comics Creators’.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
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2023 |
52
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2022 |
Open access
1
3
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2022 |
Open access
52
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2021 |
Viljoen, J-M 2021, War comics: a postcolonial perspective, Routledge, UK.
10
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Year | Output |
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2021 |
Viljoen, J-M 2021, War comics: a postcolonial perspective, Routledge, UK.
10
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Year | Output |
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2022 |
Open access
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2016 |
1
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Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
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2023 |
52
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2022 |
5
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2022 |
Open access
1
3
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2022 |
Open access
52
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2021 |
3
2
1
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2019 |
Open access
1
1
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2015 |
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2015 |
1
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2014 |
6
3
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2013 |
2
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Press article
Black Panther, Wakanda Forever & the problem with Hollywood: an African perspective, published in The Conversation Africa (2023).
Co-authored book
2010. English for Life : Grade 10 Home Language; Authors: Therona Moodley, Jeanne-Marie Viljoen, Felicity Horne, Ian Butler & Megan Howard published by Best Books NB Uitgewers / Publishers, Pretoria and Cape Town.
Co-authored book chapter
2007. The Use of Mobile Phone Technology for Student Support by Johan Hendrikz & Jeanne-Marie Viljoen in ‘An Anthology of “Best Practices” in Teacher Education’ edited by T. K. S. Lakshmi, K. Rama and Johan Hendrikz. Published by The National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC)of India and The Common Wealth Of Learning.
Co-authored journal article
Dec 2004. Special Edition of Perspectives in Education Transforming learning through technology: the case of using SMSs to support Distance students in South Africa by JM Viljoen, CS du Preez and A Cook, Vol 23 No 4.
Doctoral thesis
Conferred in 2016 by the School of Communications, International Studies & Languages at the University of South Australia, entitled: Smearing Ash on the Wall: the ineffable, violence and trauma in graphic narratives of war.
Master's thesis
Conferred in 2009 by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria, entitled: Playing with the Subject: Writing in Greenaway's 'The Pillow Book' & in Kafka's 'The Penal Colony'.
Research
External grant funded research projects:
Arts & Health Alliance Grant funded project – Supporting Neurodivergent Comics Creators (with WritersSA, Dr Jessica White, AProf Kylie Cardell, Jessica Alice, AProf Lydia Woodyett, Dr Aaron Humphrey, Ms Jo Mignone, Dr Katerina Bryant, Dr Edith Hill).
Wellbeing SA funded project - Tailoring Suicide Prevention Strategies to Men inFarming Occupations (with Prof Lia Bryant, Dr Rosie Roberts, Dr David Radford & Dr Donovan Doreen).
2023, Organised national research workshop - in collaboration with CP3 & Dr Jessica White on health humanities (15 November 2023, UniSA Adelaide)bringing together creative practitioners, researchers, HDRs & community groups working in disability, mental health, and/or chronic illness.
2023, Organised exhibition & master class – with Dr Nkosinkulu, Z.Z. Painting Lecturer in the Department of Fine and Studio Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, Tshwane University of Technology, City of Tshwane, South Africa. Auditory and visual odyssey into Xhosa culture: [jazz music, painting, drawings, poetry]. Exhibited at UniSA SASA Gallery Adelaide (14-15 September 2023)
2023, Organised international hybrid research symposium - in collaboration with CP 3, Dr Aaron Humphrey (JM Coetzee Centre of Creative Practice, University of Adelaide), Graphic Horizons and The Future of Comics in an Intermedial World (14-15 September 2023) (with keynote by Sam Wallman, award-winning graphic novelist & arts activist).
2022, presented paper ‘Using an affective feminist lens on form to expand imagination in the Oqaluttuaq graphic narratives of the Arctic’ by invitation at the ‘Gender, Identity & Embodiment Seminar Series Hosted by the Department of English Studies, University of South Africa (Sept 2022)’
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Jyväskylä University | FINLAND |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
2023 - present, Research Grant Expert Peer Assessor, Australian Research Council.
External Examiner Engagements:
2024 – External examiner for PhD thesis, Department of Visual Arts (Visual Culture & Media), University of Pretoria, titled: 'We’re Digging the Future: Afro-future Mining in Africa', supervised by Dr RF Du Plessis.
2023 – External examiner for PhD thesis, Department of English, University of Pretoria, titled: ‘Using Plain Language for more effective interdisciplinary science communication’ , supervised by Dr I Noomé.
2020– External examiner Master of Arts Research Artefact- Exegesis, Flinders University, titled "Creating a realistic visual style in the production of a graphic novel ‘DEMONS’", supervised by Dr T Barnett.
2018 – External examiner for Master of Arts thesis, Department of English Studies, University of South Africa, titled: ‘Art Designs in Life: Explorations of Leaders’ Impact on Society using MacBeth and Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s Grand Tragic Fall’, supervised by Prof ZT Motsa.
2019 Teaching award commendation, UniSA Education, Arts & Sciences.
Award for Education Innovation for the outstanding contribution made towards education innovation (mobile learning) at the University of Pretoria, 2006.
Recent higher degree by research supervision completions:
Recent Honour's thesis supervision completions:
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Ecocriticism and fantasy fiction: the importance of cli-fi in a climate crisis | Current |
Looking up, looking down: Investigating how an eclectic approach to source material, methodology and methods can function within a contemporary painting practice that responds to memory, place, and history in Tarntanya/Adelaide. | Current |
New adult: marketing ploy or crucial contribution to the romance genre | Current |
Queering the fat body: The impact of fatness on queer identities | Current |
Translating Lucarelli through a postcolonial lens | Current |
Unmasking the procatrix: engaging the clandestine literacies of l'écriture kinesthésique to neuroqueer creative writing research | Current |
Unveiling the subaltern: an investigation through recent Iranian women's writing | Current |
The abject and affective body: écriture féminine in Enright's novels | Completed |
The Turtle Moves: how Terry Pratchett¿s Discworld does vernacular theory | Completed |
Using a fictional micronation to explore issues in a future Australia | Completed |