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Dr Jeanne-Marie Viljoen

  • Lecturer School of Creative Industries
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Dr Jeanne-Marie Viljoen
  • graphic narratives & animated documentaries
  • post colonial & post structural trauma theory
  • digital humanities & mobile learning
  • cultural politics of systemic & symbolic violence
  • identity politics of cultural&linguistic diversity

I am a Lecturer in Cultural Studies and English in the School of Creative Industries at UniSA.  My research fields encompass literary and cultural studies.

My interest in explaining how communication occurs in the contexts where language cannot capture all we want to say has lead me to focus on applying aesthetic theory, post-colonial trauma theory, affect theory and theories of haptic visuality to textual and visual communication, especially in instances where language is inadequate to communicate meaning.

My interdisciplinary international training has prepared me for a variety of research activities. My work on non-fictional comics and animated documentary films has lead to publications, presentations, research supervision and... Read more

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About me

I am a Lecturer in Cultural Studies and English in the School of Creative Industries at UniSA.  My research fields encompass literary and cultural studies.

My interest in explaining how communication occurs in the contexts where language cannot capture all we want to say has lead me to focus on applying aesthetic theory, post-colonial trauma theory, affect theory and theories of haptic visuality to textual and visual communication, especially in instances where language is inadequate to communicate meaning.

My interdisciplinary international training has prepared me for a variety of research activities. My work on non-fictional comics and animated documentary films has lead to publications, presentations, research supervision and the design of courses on the use of images to communicate trauma. My 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. My work on communicating wellbeing and belonging in situations of high cultural and linguistic diversity has lead to successful research collaborations and grant applications.

I am a member of both the ‘Creative People, Products and Places (CP3’) and the ‘Centre for Economic and Cultural Sociology’ research concentrations in the University's 'Transforming Societies' research stream. I am an external examiner and adjunct supervisor in the Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa and I regularly review articles for the Social Identities Journal.

 

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Professional Associations

Cultural Studies Association 2016/7

Applied Linguistics Association of Australia 2018/9

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Experience

Qualifications

  • 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

Work history

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

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Research

Research themes

  • Transforming societies

Research focus

  • Cultural Studies
  • Communication and Media Studies
  • Film, Television and Digital Media
  • Historical Studies
  • Literary Studies
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Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.

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Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

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Chapters

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2016

Viljoen, J-M 2016, 'Unconstrained by accuracy: Commemorating the Khan Younis massacre through a comic', in West, Brad (ed.), War, Memory and Commemoration, Routledge, US, ch. 9, pp. 149-160.

Journal Articles

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2019

Viljoen, J-M 2019, 'Decolonising violence through the ineffable: the case of Africa's world war', African Identities, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 18-35.

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2015

Viljoen, J-M 2015, ''Productive Myopia': seeing past history's spectacle of accuracy in Joe Sacco's footnotes in Gaza', Journal of War and Culture Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 315-327.

2015

Viljoen, J-M 2015, 'Engaging an aesthetics of the 'invisible' in graphic narratives to represent violence ethically', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 847-860.

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2014

Viljoen, J-M 2014, 'Waltz with Bashir : between representation and experience', Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural and Media Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 40-50.

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Viljoen, J-M 2013, 'Representing the "unrepresentable" : the unpredictable life of memory and experience in Waltz with Bashir', Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 66-80.

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Other outputs

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

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'.

 

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External engagement & recognition

Highlights

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.

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Teaching & student supervision

Teaching strengths

  • Cultural studies
  • English language & literature
  • Screen media studies
  • Visual research methods
  • Popular culture

Highlights

Award for Education Innovation for the outstanding contribution made towards education innovation (mobile learning) at the University of Pretoria, 2006.

Recent Honour's theses completions:

  • 'Anti-authoritarian themes & power relations in The Simpsons'
  • 'Islamophobia in stand-up comedy'

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Courses and programs

Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate

  • HUMS 3050 Researching Culture (2019)
  • COMM 1080 Introduction to Comicbooks (2020)
  • LANG 2044 English Language for Business Studies (2020)
  • LANG 2044 English Language for Business Studies (2019)
  • LANG 1052 English for Academic Use in Australia (2020)
  • LANG 1052 English for Academic Use in Australia (2019)
  • LANG 1052 English for Academic Use in Australia (2018)
  • LANG 1053 English for Academic and International Communication (2020)
  • LANG 1053 English for Academic and International Communication (2018)
  • HUMS 3047 A History of Ideas (2020)
  • HUMS 3047 A History of Ideas (2019)
  • HUMS 3047 A History of Ideas (2018)
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Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title Student status
Female consciousness in Anne Enright’s novels Irish women's identity in contemporary Ireland Current
Notes in the margins: forgotten women poets of the beat generation Current
The matter of dead bodies: ineffability, grief and multimodal printed literature Current
The Small Gods of Online Identity Current
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