(BA, Cinema Studies and English, University of Toronto)

Current Studies: PhD in Cinema and Media Studies

Harrison Wade is a PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies and recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. They graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in Cinema Studies and English, where they received the Norman Jewison Fellowship in Film Studies. Their dissertation draws from film theory and formalist methodologies to read non-photorealistic CGI in contemporary art cinema, but they have also written on feminist experimental shorts, phenomenology, and classical Hollywood performance. Harrison has an essay film published in [in]Transition and writes poetry, which can be found in The Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, and SAD Mag, among others.