Resume

• 2016

  Humber College

  I teach journalism students at Humber College how to design

  build

  and manage digital editorial outlets of all kinds.

  Humber College

• 2014

  Colour Story

  I work with publishers

  filmmakers

  and businesses to create interactive experiences that tell meaningful stories. Combining expertise in design

  editorial strategy

  and web development lets me build beautiful and intelligent interfaces for applications from journalism to e-commerce.

  Colour Story

• 2012

  Massey College Press Club Journalism Nights

  User Interface Design

  Editorial Design

  iOS Development

  Editing

  Content Strategy

  User Experience Design

  Writing

  Web Development

  Digital Strategy

  Research

  Duffin Wolfe

  Jessica

  Duffin Wolfe

  Helios Design Labs

  University of Toronto

  Between 2012 and 2014 at the University of Toronto

  I taught a course on the history of reading to students in the Book and Media Studies program

  and another on the novel to students in the English department.

  Instructor

  the Novel

  and the History of Reading

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  University of Toronto

  Under the supervision of Helios Design Labs

  I designed a user experience for a web extension for a documentary film about astronomy. We developed a prototype experience using a desert interface I conceptualized

  with integrated space explorations using Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope API.

  Interactive Narrative Intern

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Helios Design Labs

  Toronto Arts Council

  Toronto Arts Council Writer's Grant

  Doctoral Award

  2009-12

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

• 2011

  The Toronto Review of Books

  I'm the founding editor and web developer of The Toronto Review of Books

  a digital magazine about books

  readers

  Internet

  e-books

  street corners

  festivals

  songs

  thoughts

  Toronto

  and other artworks.

  Editor-in-Chief

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  The Toronto Review of Books

• 2010

  Samara Canada

• 2009

  WIDEN (Workshops for Inter-Discipline Exchange and Novelty)

  At every WIDEN

  three people from different fields speak on a common theme

  revealing shared projects and symbiotic insights. Since I started this series at the University of Toronto in 2009

  WIDEN networks have been formed at eight universities and colleges across Canada.

  WIDEN (Workshops for Inter-Discipline Exchange and Novelty)

  Professor of Digital Communications and Journalism

  I teach design and code for interactive storytelling at Humber College's Lakeshore Campus.

  Humber College

• 2008

  Films by JDW

  Spacing Magazine

  My first short film

  BERLIN (4 min)

  opened the Rooftop Film Festival in New York in 2008.

  Films by JDW

  For three years I served as the arts and reviews editor at Spacing Magazine

  where I collaborated with a team at the forefront of Canadian urbanism to cover the best new work in the field.

  Arts and Reviews Editor

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Spacing Magazine

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  My dissertation

  Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

  looks at the prehistory of cinema through printed images and visual experiences in literature.

  English

  Book History and Print Culture

  University of Toronto

• 2007

  POV Magazine

  I wrote numerous feature articles on interactive media and documentary film for POV Magazine

  including profiles of Ana Serrano at the CFC Media Lab and the NFB's Kat Cizek.

  POV Magazine

• 2006

  OCAD University

  Beginning as a teaching assistant and then continuing as an instructor

  I taught the history of graphic design

  printmaking

  and typography to students at the Ontario College of Art and Design University.

  Design History Instructor

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  OCAD University

• 2005

  Master's Degree

  English

  Book History and Print Culture

  University of Toronto

• 2001

  Bachelor's Degree

  English (Honours)

  Canadian Studies (Minor)

  McGill University