Dissertation
2015 After Collective Memory: Postnational Europe and Socially Engaged Art, York University Libraries.
Edited volumes
2021 Synenko, J. ed., Comparatism Now! Special issue of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 48.2. Online link.
2018 Synenko, J. ed., Geospatial Memory. Special issue of Media Theory, 2.1.
Refereed journal articles
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. [In press]
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. Online link.
2014 “The Remainders of Memory: Berlin’s Postnational Aesthetic.” Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, 11(1), SI: Ruin, ed. Varghese, R. Online link.
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 “Digital Geographies.” in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture, Vol. 3: Digitsations, Transformations, and Futures, eds. Sandywell, B. and Hand, M. [Invited; submission forthcoming]
2021 “Comparative Studies in a Precarious Present,” Canadian Review in Comparative Literature, 48(2).
2020 “COVID-19 and the Politics of Locations,” SCMS+ Online link.
2019 “Humans of the Anthropocene: An interview with Thierry Loa,” MediaTheory (Blog edition). Online link.
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. Online link.
2017 “Teaching Media Infrastructure through Popular Culture,” Mediapolis: Journal of Cities and Culture: Student Voices, 4(2). Online link.
2016 “Book Review—Berry, C., and Moore, R. (Eds.). Public Space, Media Space,” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, 1(3). Online link.
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. Online link.
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