Dan McFadden

Dan McFadden is a doctoral candidate in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on the philosophical implications that are explicitly or latently explored in the representation of events in cinema, with a focus on accidents and disasters in particular. His SSHRC-funded dissertation explores how media forms and narratives open new modes and practices for understanding causality and eventality, and of the role that systems play in our understanding of the complex interactivity of the world.

Selected Work

• "Towards a Concept of Weak Fatalism.” The Neutral, 1.1, 2019.
• “The Figure Function in Rancière and Heidegger.” World Picture 11, 2016.

Awards

• 2019 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
• 2019 University of Toronto McCuaig-Throop Bursary
• 2018 Robert Lantos Cinema Studies Scholarship
• 2017 University of Toronto Alumni and Friends Graduate Scholarship
• 2015-2016 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• 2014 SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship