Dissertation

2015        After Collective Memory: Postnational Europe and Socially Engaged Art, York University Libraries.

Edited volumes

2024               Synenko, J., and Epp, M. H., eds., Violent Labour and Media. Special issue of Media Theory, Vol. 9, No. 1.

2024                Synenko, J. and Mergler, A., eds., A Research-creation Episteme: Practices, Interventions, Dissensus. Special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Vol. 15. No. 3.

2021                Synenko, J. ed., Comparatism Now! Special issue of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 48.2.  

2018                Synenko, J. ed., Geospatial Memory. Special issue of Media Theory, 2.1.

Refereed journal articles

2024 “Let’s Abolish Research-Creation.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, SI: A Research-creation Episteme? Practices, Interventions, Dissensus, ed. Mergler, A., and Synenko, J.

2023               “‘Where Does This World End?’ Space, Time, and Image in Harun Farocki’s Parallel.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, SI: Vibrant Matters: Materiality across Media, Literature, and Theory, ed. Fan, L., and Tschofen, M.

2018                “Geolocating Popular Memory: Recorded Images of Hashima Island after Skyfall.” Popular Communication, 15(2), SI: Memory and Human Rights, ed. Kaiser, S.: pp. 141-153.

2017                “Settler Sublime: Reparation and Return in Yael Bartana’s Polish Trilogy.” PhiN: Philologie im Netz, Beiheift13: pp. 220-244.

2016                “The Geospatial Rhetoric of Asylum: Mapping Migration in Fortress Europe.” Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA, 9(4), SI: Fortress Europe: Media, Migration, and Borders, eds. Marino, S., and Dawes, S.: pp. 1-13.

2016                “Topography and Frontier: Gibellina’s City of Art.” M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 19(3), SI: Place, eds. Ballico, C., and Watson, A.

2014                “The Remainders of Memory: Berlin’s Postnational Aesthetic.” Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, 11(1), SI: Ruin, ed. Varghese, R.

Refereed book chapters

2019                “Library in Ruins: Digital Collections and the Idea of the University.” Re-viewing Comparative Literature in Canada, eds. Ingram, S., and Sywenky, I. Lanham: Lexington Books, 225-237.

2016                “Geospatial Detritus: Mapping Urban Abandonment.” Global Garbage: Urban Imaginaries of Excess, Waste, and Abandonment. Eds. Lindner, C., and Meissner, M. London and New York: Routledge, 165-180.

2013                “Archive Cultures: Technicity, Trace and Metaphor.” The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts, Narratives.eds. Parrot, M. and Derry, J. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 228-244.

2012                “Andreas Huyssen and the Genres of Historical Memory.” The Historical Textures of Translation: Traditions, Traumas and Transgressions. Ingram, S., and Reisenleitner, M. (Eds.).Vienna: Mille-Tre-Verlag, 33-59

Editorially Reviewed  

2025 Synenko, J., and Epp, M. H., “Violent Labour and Media.” Media Theory 9.1: 1-22.

2025                “Digital Geographies.” in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture, Vol. 3: Digitsations, Transformations, and Futures, eds. Sandywell, B. and Hand, M. [Forthcoming]

2024               “Spectacularly Televised: U.S. Congress Hearing on Campus Antisemitism Reveals Growing Interference in Educational Policy.” No More Abysses, No More Walls, Kreuter, A., ed. Substack.

2021                “Comparative Studies in a Precarious Present,” Canadian Review in Comparative Literature, 48(2).

2020                “COVID-19 and the Politics of Locations,” SCMS+

2019                “Humans of the Anthropocene: An interview with Thierry Loa,” MediaTheory (Blog edition).

2019                “Book Review—Hoskins, A. (Ed.), Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition,” New Media & Society, 21(1): 274-276.

2018                “Book Review—Graham, S. Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers,” PUBLIC: Art Culture Ideas, 57(1): 287-289.

2018                “Geospatial Memory: An Introduction,” Media Theory, 2(1): 1-33.

2017                “Teaching Media Infrastructure through Popular Culture,” Mediapolis: Journal of Cities and Culture: Student Voices, 4(2).

2016                “Book Review—Berry, C., and Moore, R. (Eds.). Public Space, Media Space,” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, 1(3).

2016                “What’s New? Boris Groys in Translation,” Reviews in Cultural Theory, 6(1), 37-41.  

2014                “Countermemory in Post-Wende Berlin,” Descant Magazine, 45(3), Special Issue: The Berlin Project, ed. Franklyn, K.: 147-156.

2012                “Topos of Faith: Derrida’s Counter-Institutions,” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Special Issue: Out of the Ruins: The University to Come, ed. Hanke, B. 28(1), 289-295.

2010                Synenko, J., Brown, R., Principe, C., and Weisberg, Z. eds., E-Topia, Special Issue: The Inhuman: Investigating Continental Thought in the Humanities.