Michael Truscello, Ph.D., is a Professor in English and General Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. He is the author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure (MIT Press, 2020) and co-editor with Ajamu Nangwaya of Why Don’t The Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance (AK Press, 2017). His publications on petrocultures have appeared as chapters in Petrocultures: Oil, Culture, Politics (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017), Interrogating the Anthropocene: Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Fueling Culture (Fordham UP, 2017). His recent publications on horror cinema include: “The Grim Meat-Hook Realities of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” in Post45 (October 2024); (with Renae Watchman) "Blood Quantum and Fourth Cinema: Post-and Paracolonial Zombies," Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 40.4 (2023): 462-483; and "The 'Yahima' Controversy and Antiracism in HBO's Lovecraft Country," in Horror and Indigeneity: Literature, Film, and Television. Murray Leeder and Gary Rhodes, eds. (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, forthcoming).

He directed the film Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity (2011).

In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, I honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis, and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, îethka Nakoda Nations: Chiniki, Bearspaw, Goodstoney and Tsuut’ina Nation. I acknowledge that this territory is home to the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation within Alberta Districts 5 and 6.