James Leo Cahill is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and French Literature at the University of Toronto. He is author of Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), which was shortlisted as best first book by the Modernist Studies Association, co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice (American Film Institute / Routledge, 2021), and an associate editor of A Companion to Documentary Film History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021). From 2019-24 he was Director of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, and he has been an editor for Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture since 2010. His research has been supported by several grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and he has previously been a fellow at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, and the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. While in residence at the Maison Dora Maar he will be working on his current book project, Neither Dog Nor Master: Essays in Stray Thinking. James Leo Cahill’s fellowship is funded by a grant from the David R. Graham Foundation supporting Franco-Canadian cultural exchanges.