Julia Polyck-O’Neill (they/she) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Communication and Media Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John’s, Newfoundland. Their research explores historical and contemporary intersectional feminist, digital approaches to interdisciplinary media artists’ archives and intersections between preservation and conservation, computational technologies, and creative praxis. Current and forthcoming projects and publications focus on the ways that institutions and organizations in Canada (and beyond) might balance critical feminist ethical approaches, research-creation, and the employment of emergent methods and technologies, including artificial intelligence-based automation, in their archives and the evolving needs and interests of humanities researchers during times of crisis, austerity, and epistemic transformation.
Polyck-O’Neill’s scholarly, peer-reviewed publications appear in journals including Amodern, Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (The Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History), English Studies in Canada, Canadian Literature, and in anthologies including Variable Conditions: Para-computational Arts in Canada, 1965–1995 (McGill-Queens UP)and Future Horizons: Digital Humanities in Canada (UOttawa Press). Their poetry has been published in The Capilano Review, Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, Groundwork: The Best of the Third Decade of Above/Ground Press, 2013–2023 (Invisible, 2023) and other places. They have published five chapbooks including Process (above/ground press, 2024) and Material (model press, 2021) and their first poetry collection, Bad Material, is forthcoming from Talonbooks in Spring 2027.