Jessica Jacobson-Konefall is Assistant Professor of Canadian Art and Theory at the School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph. Her research interests include Canadian and Indigenous art, Marxist feminism, Critical Theory, Indigenous and critical race theory, and poststructuralist theories. Her current SSHRC Insight Development project focuses on ecological aesthetics in Treaty 1 and Treaty 3 territory (Manitoba/Ontario). She is Collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant Archive/Counter-Archive out of York University, with Anishinaabe artist and cultural worker Angelina Mcleod (Shoal Lake 40 First Nation) and Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery, working on an art/academic project relating birchbark scrolls with civic/reserve archives. She is working on two book chapters on the relationship between energy "resources" and contemporary arts in Canada, and writing a monograph focused on the art of Rebecca Belmore and other contemporary artists in light of the question: "what does it mean to be here in a good way?" She is a practicing artist.
