Bordun, Dr. Troy
PhD (Trent University); MA (Brock University); BA Honours (University of Toronto)
Biography
Dr. Troy Michael Bordun completed his doctoral degree in Cultural Studies at Trent University. During his PhD, Dr. Bordun served as co-director of the Trent Film Society. He is an active researcher in film and media studies, celebrity studies, porn studies, and comics studies. In the latter field, Dr. Bordun received an SSHRC Explore Grant and a Research Strategic Initiatives Grant (UNBC) to study superheroes and philosophy. A manuscript on this topic is under review. Before becoming an Assistant Professor, he taught as a contract instructor at various institutions across Canada, including UNBC (English and Gender Studies), Concordia University (Film Studies, Sociology, Art History, and Communication Studies), Trent University (Sociology and Cultural Studies), and Bishop's University (English and Film Studies). He received the part-time teaching award at Trent University. He sits on the editorial boards of Comics Studies: Theory and Practice (University of Exeter Press) and Porn Studies, and is co-chair of the Comics Studies Special Interest Group (Society for Cinema and Media Studies).
Research and expertise
Currently, Dr. Bordun is preparing a manuscript linking contemporary superhero comics and continental philosophy. He has also begun developing an edited collection about the Invincible transmedia franchise (Prime Video; Image Comics). Finally, he is actively researching online pornography, labour, platforms, and celebrity.
- Culture
- Gender and Women's Studies
- Literature
Selected publications
Books
Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema: Film Theory at the Fringes of Contemporary Art Cinema, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Book chapters
“On the off-screen voice: falling in love with Her,” Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre and Celebrity, eds. Janice Loreck, Whitney Monaghan, and Kirsten Stevens, Palgrave Macmillan, 99-120, 2020
Articles
“‘You’re a Triple Imposter, I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’: Scarlett Johansson’s Femme Fatales,” Intersectional Perspectives 4 (2025) [forthcoming]
“Submitting to Love Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics,” REDEN 5.1 (2023): 24-43
“Sublime Aesthetics in Philippe Grandrieux’s Un lac,” Studies in European Cinema 22.1 (2023): 16-31
“‘The Genuine Personality of our Favorite Stars’: Ariel Rebel, Performative Authenticity, and Parasocial Interaction,” Porn Studies 12.1 (2023): 12-19
“The Woman’s Horror Film: Swallow and Promising Young Woman,” Cinephile 16.1 (2022): 26-33
“Domino’s Philosophy of Luck: A Bataillean Reading,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 47.3 (2021): 337-55
“Art, Porn, and Schlock: Fifty Shades of Grey and the Perplexed Film Critic,” Cinephile 14.1 (2020): 14-19