Peer-reviewed scholarship, in-press work, public scholarship and book reviews.
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (Published)
Bessai, J. W. (2026). Art as a public service in the Canadian aporetic condition: The NFB, stylisation of experience, and national identity. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 38(1), 107–125. https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2026.7
Bessai, J.W., (2026) Digital genre fiction at the National Film Board of Canada: Civic storyworlds, Indigenous futurisms, and environmental memory. Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (Special issue: Breaking Convention: Genre Fiction in a Global Frame).https://doi.org/10.1177/30333962251414774
Bessai, J. (2026). The Toxic in Public Discourse: Art, Media, and Digital Spaces. Culture and Dialogue, 14(1), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.1163/24683949-12340153
Bessai, J. W. (2025). The aporetic condition in Canadian public policy: Cultural resurgence and ecological transition. Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies, 99, 93–103. https://doi.org/10.4000/15g1r
Bessai, J. (2025). Art as a catalyst for global citizenship: The National Film Board of Canada’s approach to societal challenges. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 21(1–2), 94–108. https://doi.org/10.5130/pjmis.v21i1-2.9636
Bessai, J. W. (2025). Populist style, nationalist affect, and the aporetic condition: Rhetorical realignment in Canada’s 2025 election. Journal of Intercultural Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2025.2565772
Bessai, J. W. (2025). Algorithmic realities and the Canadian aporetic condition: Digital counterpublics and epistemological justice. Alma Mater – Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Kulturforschungen, 2(3), 15–25. https://doi.org/10.29329/almamater.2025.1360.2
Bessai, J. W. (2025). Digital flames: Public storytelling, climate, and reconciliation at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). University of Bucharest Review: Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 15(1), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.15.1.3
Bessai, J. W. (2024). Interdisciplinary dialogues: Media arts in humanities scholarship: The National Film Board of Canada as an interdisciplinary infrastructure. Scaffold: Journal of the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Culture, 1(2), 5–11. https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/J-ICSLAC/article/view/4885
Peer-Reviewed Scholarship (In Press)
Journal articles (in press)
Bessai, J. W. (in press). Exposing the digital gaze: The NFBC and vernacular media in contemporary Canadian storytelling. Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature.
Bessai, J. W. (in press). From documentary to digital: The National Film Board of Canada’s role in transnational knowledge transfer, 20th–21st century. Hungarian Historical Review.
Public Scholarship
Bessai, J. W. (2026, January 19). Reading the city through countermonuments of ecology: From
Mistaseni to Floodlines. NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment), The Otter. https://niche-canada.org/2026/01/19/reading-the-city-through-countermonuments-of-ecology-from-mistaseni-to-floodlines/
Bessai, J. (2025, December 5). Playing inside the grid: Bear 71, Do Not Track, and life under observation. NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment), The Otter. https://niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/playing-inside-the-grid-bear-71-do-not-track-and-life-under-observation/
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters (Published)
Bessai, J. W. (2026). Sustainability as strategic narrative: The Canadian aporetic condition and global environmental governance. In S. Gudek-Golcek, G. Durmaz, & A. Inan-Simsek (Eds.), Critical approach to sustainability discourse and action in international relations (pp. 349–376). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-1707-6.ch011
Book Reviews
Bessai, J. W. (2025). Review of Philosophizing the Americas, edited by J. A. Carter & H. A. Estévez. H-Net Reviews. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60974
Bessai, J. W. (2024). Review of Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood (G. C. Anderson). H-Net Reviews. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60297
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