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Dr. Aaron Taylor is a Professor of Cinema Studies and is currently a Board of Governors Teaching Chair (2025-27).

His work centers on screen acting, cognitive film theory, and the transmedia relations between film and comics. He is the editor of two anthologies on performance and characterization, and the author of over two dozen articles and book chapters. His ongoing research on acting and embodied cognition is enabled by interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues in the Psychology and Drama Departments, as well as substantial internal and SSHRC funding.

Presently, he is a Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and held an Associate Editor at Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind from 2017-24. He co-founded the SCMS Performance and Stardom Scholarly Interest Group, served in various capacities on the Film Studies Association of Canada’s Executive Committee from 2008-2014, held a Teaching Fellowship at the ��Ѹ�����Դ���߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge from 2017-19, and was a Tier II Board of Governors Research Chair from 2019-23.

Recent Research & Publications

Edited Anthologies

Screening Characters. Co-edited with Johannes Riis. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Theorizing Film Acting. New York: Routledge, 2012.

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"Twin Peaks and the Performative Poetics of Complex Television.” Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television. Ed. Héctor J. Perez & Ted Nannicelli. Routledge, 2022. 193-213.

“Genre and Superhero Cinema.” Comics and Pop Culture. Ed. Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson. Austin: ��Ѹ�����Դ���߿�Ƭ of Texas Press, 2019.

“Fool for Love: Jean-Pierre Léaud in Stolen Kisses.” Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances. Vol. 2. Ed. Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens. Edinburgh ��Ѹ�����Դ���߿�Ƭ Press, 2018. 205-16.

“Playing Peter Parker: Spider-Man and Superhero Film Performance.” Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe. Ed. Matt Yockey. ��Ѹ�����Դ���߿�Ƭ of Texas Press, 2017. 268-96.

“How to See Things Differently: Tim Burton’s Reimaginings.” The Works of Tim Burton: From Margins to Mainstream. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 99-116.

“Adam Sandler, An Apologia: Anger, Arrested Adolescence, Amour Fou.” Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema. Ed. Timothy Shary. Wayne State UP, 2013. 19-51.

“Playing to the Balcony: Screen Acting, Distance and Cavellian Theatricality.” Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema. Ed. André Loiselle & Jeremy Maron. ��Ѹ�����Դ���߿�Ƭ of Toronto Press, 2012. 185-203.

Awards

Board of Governors Teaching Chair (2025-27)

2019 – 2023 ��Ѹ�����Դ���߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Board of Governors Research Chair, Tier 2

2018 – 2023 SSHRC Insight Grant

2017 – 2019 ��Ѹ�����Դ���߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Teaching Fellow

2015 – 2017 Community of Research Excellence Development Opportunities award

2014 Hokkai Gakuen Faculty Exchange Program, Sapporo, Japan

2010 – 2011 ��Ѹ�����Դ���߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Research Grant