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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
2020 - present, reveiwer for the Journal of International Students
2020 – member & reviewer for The Institute of Postcolonial Studies (Melbourne)
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
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Master of Arts University of Pretoria
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Honours Bachelor of Arts University of South Africa
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
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
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2022 |
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2021 |
Viljoen, J-M 2021, War comics: a postcolonial perspective, Routledge, UK.
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2019 |
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2016 |
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2021 |
Viljoen, J-M 2021, War comics: a postcolonial perspective, Routledge, UK.
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2022 |
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2016 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2021 |
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2019 |
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2015 |
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2015 |
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2014 |
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2013 |
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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'.
2020 External examiner for Flinders University Master of Arts Research Thesis.
2018/9 External examiner & post-graduate supervisor for the Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa.
2017/8 Collaboration on publication about decolonial interpretations of heroism, with Prof MS May, Department of Industrial & Organisational Psychology, University of South Africa.
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Jyväskylä University | FINLAND |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Award for Education Innovation for the outstanding contribution made towards education innovation (mobile learning) at the University of Pretoria, 2006.
Recent PhD thesis supervision completions:
Recent Honour's thesis supervision completions:
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
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Ecocriticism and fantasy fiction: the importance of cli-fi in a climate crisis | Current |
Investigating the application of an eclectic approach in a contemporary painting practice | Current |
Lucarelli and the contemporary 'giallo' through a post-colonial lens. | 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 |
Unmasking the provocatrix: 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 |