Hayden Bytheway

PhD Student
hayden.bytheway@mail.utoronto.ca

Biography

Hayden Bytheway is a 3rd year PhD student at the Cinema Studies Institute. Hayden’s research examines representations of risk in fictional film, drawing inspiration from risk studies and various strains of philosophy, including radical empiricism, existential phenomenology, the philosophy of life and organism, post-continental thought, and aesthetics. His broader research extends to topics such as music and filmic realism, meme culture, cinematic technics, critical logistics studies, and contemporary practices in videographic criticism. Hayden holds an MA in Cinema and Media Studies from York University.

Selected Work

“Matter, Memory and Duration: Temporal Containment in the Modern Melodrama” . MA Major Research Project. York University, 2022.

"Alice Guilluy. ‘Guilty Pleasures’: European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy”. Book Review. EuropeNow (46). February 2022.

Awards

  • SSHRC Doctoral Award (2024)
  • SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship (2021)
  • Department of Film Studies Undergraduate Award (University of Manitoba, 2020)
  • Rose Toles Prize (University of Manitoba, multiple)

Education

MA, York University
BA Adv, University of Manitoba

Cohort

  • 2022-2023