Education:
BA (University of Waterloo)
MA (Univesity of Waterloo)
PhD (University of Waterloo)
Position: Professor
Office: EA3118
Phone: 403.440.8513
E-mail: mtruscello@mtroyal.ca
Website: https://www.michaeltruscello.com/
Scholarly Interests:
He is currently working on a book about fascism and contemporary horror cinema. He is the author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure (MIT Press, 2020) and co-editor with Ajamu Nangwaya of Why Don’t The Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance (AK Press, 2017). His recent publications on petrocultures have appeared as chapters in Petrocultures: Oil, Culture, Politics (2017), Interrogating the Anthropocene: Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question (2018) and Fueling Culture (2017).
Relevant Publications and/or Presentations:
Truscello, M. Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure. MIT Press, 2020.
Truscello, M. “The Internet Shutdown and Revolutionary Politics: Defining the Infrastructural Power of the Internet,” South Atlantic Quarterly 122.4 (2023): 811-826.
Truscello, M. with Adam Carlson. “Technocratic Fiction, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Counter-Insurgent Infrastructure.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2023): 1-12.
Truscello, M., with Renae Watchman. “Blood Quantum and Fourth Cinema: Post- and Paracolonial Zombies,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 40.4 (2023): 462-483.
Truscello, M. (2021, October 30). “Liberalism, Fascism, and the Anxiety of Home Invasion Horror,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (online).
Recent or Relevant Grants, Honours or Awards:
Fellowship: "Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada (co-applicant)". CAD25,000. Conferred by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). March 2010.
Fellowship: "Doctoral Fellowship". CAD25,000. Conferred by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). May 2003 – August 2004.
Academic Prize: “Silver Medallist, Best Dissertation in Canada.” Conferred by Canadian Association for Graduate Studies. 2006.