Jessica Duffin Wolfe

code < storytelling > design

Hi!

I’m a professor of digital storytelling at Humber College in Toronto. I also write essays and make strange web projects. My breakdown is more or less code < storytelling > design, but if you like you can read the backstory.

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Recent Work

Here are some things I’ve made or written over the last couple of years, most to least recent.

A taste of home

A story about Persian, Turkish, and Egyptian flavours and feeling at home in Kensington Market. The Globe and Mail, 2023

How Kingston became the Cambodian food capital of Canada

On a refugee and the thousands who crave his cooking, for The Globe and Mail, 2023

Diamond Planets

On Marche and Guriel, for The Literary Review of Canada, 2023

Why Christmas and Ghosts Go So Well Together

for The Globe and Mail, 2022

On Collections

an essay about how sometimes books sneak out of the stacks—and then back in. Literary Review of Canada, 2022

The Thomas Booker Rare Fish Library

a virtual reality experience about oceans and doom, 2021

Below the Brine

an essay about oceans and doom (to go with The Thomas Booker Rare Fish Library), Literary Review of Canada, 2021

Private Parts

an article on privacy and teledildonics (read: “smart” bedroom devices), The Walrus, 2021

In the Human Frame

an essay about Leonard Cohen and aftermath, Literary Review of Canada, 2021

A Shelter for Dreams

an essay about Berlin, Frei Otto, and Googling one’s own memories, Literary Review of Canada, 2021

A Ruling on the Rules

a tiny essay about masked children, Literary Review of Canada, 2020

Pandemic

an essay about the literary origins of the coronavirus, Literary Review of Canada, 2020

Check out Libby

an essay about everyone’s favourite e-reading app, Literary Review of Canada, 2020

Commentator

a web app for writing feedback more quickly

Bibliomancr

a web app for book-based divination

Bored to Life

an essay about algorithms, boredom, and books, Literary Review of Canada, 2019

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