Jessica Duffin Wolfe is a doctoral candidate in
English,
Book History & Print Culture at the
University of Toronto, where she specializes in
Victorian Literature & Visual Culture, & serves on the
Arts Council. From 2006 to 2008 she taught the history of typography, printing, and printmaking at the
Ontario College of Art & Design. In 2009 she founded the graduate-student speakers series
WIDEN (Workshops for Inter-Discipline Exchange & Novelty), which now runs at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Massey College, and York University. In addition to her academic work, JDW writes on documentary film and new media for
POV Magazine, and was the Reviews Editor at
Spacing from 2008 to 2011. Her first short film,
BERLIN (4 min), screened widely in Toronto and opened the
Rooftop Film Festival in New York in 2008. Between 2010 and 2011 she made two online book exhibits,
Drawing Palestine from London, and
Illustrating Illustration. She is now working on a new online project,
The Toronto Review of Books.