Mario teaches courses in genre cinema, grotesque traditions, cinematic embodiment, and monster ethics in the Humanities department at John Abbott College in Montréal. He is the co-director of the Montréal Monstrum Society and his area of study is intersectionality, affect and sensorial studies. He is also an independent filmmaker and programmer at the Montreal Underground Film Festival (MUFF). He is co-editor of the book, Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (2015) and he has recently published a book entitled, Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Horror Genre: Sinister Tableaux of Dread, Corporeality and the Senses. London: Anthem Press, 2023.