Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, co-authored by Jean-Thomas Tremblay, associate professor in the Department of English, received an Honourable Mention in the 2025 Book Prize competition held by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). ASAP promotes the best scholarship on the literary, visual, performing and media arts, and sponsors scholarly prizes for the best book published each year. Written by Steven Swarbrick and Tremblay, the book examines recent films and what they say about the climate crisis. It was published by Northwestern University Press.
Tremblay also serves as the director of the Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought and holds graduate appointments in English, Social & Political Thought, Science & Technology Studies and Humanities. His research in the fields of literary studies, cinema studies, sexuality studies and the environmental humanities is supported by an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Excerpts from his current project, tentatively titled The Climate after the Fact, have appeared in Critical Inquiry and Representations. He serves on the editorial board of the journals Differences and Discourse and was recently awarded the LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research, Creativity or Scholarship.