Dr. Nathan Snow is an Associate Professor in the Digital Media Program in the Communication Department. A video producer, social media content manager and animation researcher, Dr. Snow teaches courses in Popular Culture, Film Theory, Media Critique, Social Media Campaigns and Production, and Digital Media Tools. An expert in the Adobe Creative Suite, a founding member of Utah Tech Creative Studios and an FAA Certified Commercial Drone Pilot, Dr. Snow brings over 15 years of experience in video production and social media to his skills-based courses in social media marketing and media tools. An active scholar and author, Dr. Snow’s academic research focuses on phenomenological theories of spectatorship in digital animation. You can find his published work on ecocritical posthumanism in Disney animation in “Posthuman Ecoscapes” in Posthuman Southeast Asia where he examined how more-than-real representations of Southeast Asian landscapes in animation presented uniquely posthuman opportunities for embodiment and non-anthropocentric experience. Dr. Snow is also the author of “The New Animated Poetics” for Reimagining the Humanities, where his research into embodiment, animation, and aesthetics seeks to enrich animation’s standing in posthuman critical thought. His recent work includes “Indexes without a Referent: Severance Themes in Title Sequences and Animation” in a collected work on Apple TV’s Severance as well as numerous presentations at international Game Studies, Animation, and Popular Culture conferences.