I am a film and media scholar who specializes in visual effects and animation. I have a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia Univeristy and I most recently worked at UC Berkeley as a visitng FRQSC postdoc. I have publications in Animation: An Interdisiciplinary Journal and in an edited collection titled Animation and Advertising. I am currently working on a book for Palgrave Macmillan tentativley titled Animating Unpredictable Visual Effects: The Nonlinear Tools of Hollywood’s R&D Complex.