Academic Title: Associate Professor
Office: EA3150
Phone: 403.440.5910
E-mail: mtrono@mtroyal.ca
Education
BA Honours (University of Alberta)
MA (University of Alberta)
PhD (University of Alberta)
Scholarly Interests:
My research focuses on various topics in film studies and the environmental humanities. I maintain a secondary interest in American Literature Post-1945. I teach courses in ecocinema, Canadian film, film theory, American independent cinema, and 20th-century American literature.
Teaching Statement:
My pedagogy features three main aspects: a mode of enthusiasm, an ethics of care, and a commitment to multimodal assignments that feature videographic and typographic elements
I work hard to model for students how intellectual engagement best follows from enthusiasm born of sustained connections to the passions and principles central to one's life. I encourage students to perform their engagements the same way in class and in assignments.
My ethics of care is based on a full recognition that students live and work at the complicated nexus where learning, employment commitments, career planning, and ongoing identity formation all meet. I keep the wider student experience in mind.
Since traditional academic scholarship and pedagogy are undergoing seismic shifts due to new forms of visual technology (including aspects of AI), my assignments call for assemblies of spoken, written, and videographic elements to ensure that several kinds of literacy come into play.
Selected Scholarly Activity:
Trono, Mario. “'You Will Say Wow’”: Cinematic Glamping and Ecomasculine Crisis in (and around) The Revenant.” Media + Environment, vol. 4, no. 2, 2022.
Trono, Mario. "A Better Distribution Deal: Ecocinematic Viewing and Montagist Reply.” On Active Grounds:
Time and Agency in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono, 2019.
Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Trono, Mario and Robert Boschman. “Ecocritical Agency in Time.” On Active Grounds Time and Agency in the
Environmental Humanities, edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono, 2019. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid
Laurier University Press.
Trono, Mario and Robert Boschman. “Alberta and the Anthropocene.” In Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes
for the Anthropocene. 2014. Edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press.
Selected Grants, Honours and Awards:
SSHRC Explore Grant. “Cinema and the Natural Environment: The Ecology of Shooting Locations.” Principal
Investigator. 2019.
SSHRC Connection Grant. Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America.
$49,000. Co-Investigator. 2010.