Mario Trono
Education
BA Honours (University of Alberta)
MA (University of Alberta)
PhD (University of Alberta)
Office: EA3150
Phone: 403.440.5910
E-mail: mtrono@mtroyal.ca
Mario Trono's research focuses on various topics in film studies and the environmental humanities, and he maintains a secondary interest in American Literature Post-1945. He teaches courses in ecocinema, Canadian film, film theory, American independent cinema, and 20th-century American literature.
His recent publications include “You Will Say, ‘Wow’”: Cinematic Glamping and Ecomasculine Crisis in (and around) The Revenant” and “A Better Distribution Deal: Ecocinematic Viewing and Montagist Reply.” He is an editor (with Robert Boschman) of two essay collections, Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene and On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities, both from Wilfrid Laurier University Press as is his currently contracted monograph, tentatively titled Ecocinematics: Film, Consciousness, Environment.