Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, specializing in interdisciplinary media studies, game studies, and cinema studies. He is the principal investigator on the “Indie Interfaces: Examining Independent Game Development Support Networks” SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2016-2018) along with Jennifer Whitson and Bart Simon, and in 2017 he was elected President of the Canadian Game Studies Association. Felan was previously a SSHRC Postdoctral Fellow at TAG, and completed his PhD in Communication & Culture at York University. His research interests include indie gaming cultures, the cultural legitimation of games as art, AAA “prestige games,” the Bioshock franchise, authorship, canon formation, game criticism, paratexts, media industries, transmedia franchises, genre, action movies, and tabletop roleplaying games.