writing

new book coming soon - AT THE LIMITS OF CARE (fall 2025).

recent academic publications

• Klostermann, J., & Funk, L. (2024). Bounding the boundless: Gendered work hierachies and "boundless work" in Ontario long-term care homes. Studies in Political Economy.
• Klostermann, J. (2023). Bev said ‘no’: Learning from nursing home residents about care politics in our aging society. The Gerontologist.
• Klostermann, J. (2023). Residents who care: Rethinking complex care and disability relations in Ontario nursing homes. In P. Armstrong’s (Ed.), Unpaid work in nursing homes: Flexible boundaries.
• Braedley, S., Armstrong, P., & Klostermann, J. (2023). Making joy possible in care home policies and practices. In P. Armstrong and S. Braedley’s (Eds.), Care homes in a turbulent era: Do they have a future?
• Doucet, A., & Klostermann, J. (2023). What and how are we measuring when we research gendered divisions of household work and care? Remaking the Household Portrait as a Care/Work Portrait. Sociological Research Online.
• Armstrong, P., & Klostermann, J. (2023). Unpaid work in public places: Nursing homes in times of Covid-19. In M. Duffy, A. Armenia, K. Price-Glynn’s (Eds.), Confronting the Global Care Crisis during COVID19: Past Problems, New Issues, and Pathways to Change. Rutgers.
• Klostermann, J., & Funk, L. (2022). More than a visitor? Rethinking metaphors for family care in long-term care homes. Ageing & Society.
• Klostermann, J., Funk, L., Symonds-Brown, H., Cherba, M., Ceci, C., Armstrong, P., & Pols, J. (2022). The problems with care: A feminist care scholar retrospective. Societies.
• Klostermann, J., McAleese, S., Montgomery, L., & Rodimon, S. (2020). Working the project: Research proposals and everyday practices for emerging feminist researchers. Canadian Review of Sociology.

dissertation

• Klostermann, J. (2021). "Care has limits: Women's moral lives and revised meanings of care." Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Carleton University.

opinion pieces

• "Fighting privatization and austerity in Ontario health care." [editorial] The Leveller (2022)
• "Getting 'unstuck': Women who care for others should feel OK stepping back" [op-ed] The Conversation (2021)
• "Long-term care workers face ethical questions in uncaring system" [op-ed] NOW magazine (2020)
• "A Costco shopper saved my life" [blog] The Marfan Foundation (2021).
• "L’Arche International has a history of exploiting women" [op-ed] Toronto Star (2020)
• "Working for living: How may I help you?" [essay] Our Times (2020)
• "Getting 'Peterborough Drunk'" [essay] Poetry is Dead (2019)
• "Discovering I had Marfan syndrome made me rethink my life" [essay] The Globe and Mail (2019)

performances and stories

• Klostermann, J. (2024). "Writing to Heal." [digital story]
• With Susanne Fletcher, "Good Girls in Training" [performance] UPROAR Arts Fest (2020)
• "Wounded Joker" [performance] Fresh Meat (2019)
• "Living it up with Marfan syndrome" [performance] Untold Ottawa - Hosted by Ottawa Storytellers (2017)
• "Big pimpin' life goals" [reading] Grown Ups Read Things Ottawa – Hosted by Dan Misener (2018)

related press

• "WITH MY FACE" [documentary] - Produced by Madalena Silva Carlos of Fabrica (2020)
• "Where we Belong" [podcast] A Single Thing – Produced by Natalie Karneff (2020)
• "Special episode" [podcast] CBC’s Out in the Open – Hosted by Piya Chattopadhyay (2019)

reviews

“A riotous, irreverent, kick ass piece of autobiographical, standup fun that is also tender, vulnerable and deep.” – Rick Taylor (on something I wrote!)

"Janna Klostermann shares her journey of recovery from open-heart surgery through humour, storytelling and anecdotes from her physical rehabilitation sessions. The performance is energetic, and the anecdotes are delivered with humour, despite the challenging nature of talking about one’s health, fragile body and mortality." - Livia Belcea (Apt 613, 2019)