Gregory Brophy  
Dept. of English,
Bishop’s University 

Gregory Brophy’s research spans film and literature, including work recently published in [in]Transition, the New Review of Film and Television Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television, and Victorian Review. His newly published multimedia book, Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film (Lever Press 2025, co-authored with Shawn Malley) connects formal arguments about film adaptation to urgent ecological and ethical questions concerning our evolving relations with the planet in the Anthropocene

Shawn Malley 
Dept. of English 
Bishop’s University

Shawn Malley’s recent work on film and media may be found in Science Fiction Film and Television, [in]Transition, and Literature/Film Quarterly. He also co-authored with Gregory Brophy the videographic book Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Science Fiction (Lever Press, 2025). He is also the author of Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television (University of Liverpool Press, 2018). 

Julie Ravary-Pilon  
Department of Literature, Theatre and Film 
Université Laval

Julie Ravary-Pilon’s current research focuses on the relationship between cinema and digital culture, as well as on cultural and critical studies in film and television. Since 2018, she has co-edited the academic journal Nouvelles vues: Revue sur les pratiques, les théories et l’histoire du cinéma au Québec. She is the author of Femmes, nation et nature dans le cinéma (PUM, 2018), and co-editor of the collection Pour des histoires audiovisuelles des femmes au Québec: confluences et divergences (with Ersy Contogouris, PUM, 2022).

Allison Cooper’s research focuses on how digital and computational methodologies can increase our understanding of narrative cinema and media as a system of communication. She is director of Kinolab, a digital humanities laboratory for the analysis of film language, whose public facing platform at Kinolab.org offers a searchable, open access database of annotated film and media clips. She served as co-editor, with Joel Burges, of the video essay dossier The Personal Mediascape in the Age of Videographic Heterotopias, published online by ASAP Review (December 16, 2024) and recipient of severable favorable mentions in the BFI’s Best Video Essays of 2025. In 2023, she served as co-organizer and institutional host of the weeklong SSHRC-funded workshop “Embodying the Video Essay” at Bowdoin.  

Allison Cooper 
Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies 
Bowdoin College 

Aaron Taylor is a ULethbridge Board of Governors Teaching Chair (2025-27), and Co-Chair of the Media Access and Copyright Working Group. His video essays and writings on videographic criticism have appeared in [in]Transition, NECSUS, and Tecmerin’s “Screen Stars Dictionary.” 

Aaron Taylor 
Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies 
Member of the Drama Department  University of Lethbridge 

Alanna Thain is an Associate Professor of Film and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at McGill University, and is also Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. 

Her work is broadly interested in bodies, how they move through media and in the world, and their affects and intensities in time. Focused on late 20th and 21st century media, art, performance and theory, she researches, teaches, and supervises in cinema and media studies, critical theory, performance, dance, gender, sexuality and feminist studies. Thain is the director of the Moving Image Research Lab at McGill, focused on the body in moving image media. She is former director of the Institute of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (IGSF). Her books include Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema (2017), and the collections Lo Tech Pop Cult: Screendance Remixed (with Priscilla Guy, 2024) and States of Immersion: Bodies, Medias, Technologies (with Carl Therrien and Philippe Bédard, 2025), and co-edited special issues on “Dormir/ Sleeping” (Intermédialités 2023) and “Short Form Horror: History, Pedagogy and Practice” (Monstrum Journal 2022).

Alanna Thain
Department of English 
McGill University

Marion Froger is Professor of Cinema in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal (Canada), and Director of the Centre de recherches intermédiales sur les arts, les lettres et les techniques (CRIalt).

Her publications include articles in Substance, Revue intermédialités, Nouvelle Revue Synergies and The American Review of Canadian Studies

Marion Froger
Department of Art History and Film Studies
Université de Montréal