Matthew Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Humanities; Director, Traditional Undergraduate General EducationEducation
Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton University, 2011
M.A. (Literature) SUNY Brockport, 2005
M.A. (History), SUNY Brockport, 1996
B.A., Roberts Wesleyan College, 1994
Biography
Specialty areas:
Modern Global History; 19th and 20th c. American Cultural History; Modern Europe; Film Studies
Current research interests:
Critical Race Theory, Film History, Trumpism, Emerging Drama
Sample Publications/Presentations:
“B. T. Roberts’s Real Estate Debts” in Earnest: Interdisciplinary Work Inspired by the Life and Teachings of B. T. Roberts, Ed. Andrew Craig Koehl and David Basinger. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers. 2017. https://www.amazon.com/Earnest-Interdisciplinary-Inspired-Teachings-Roberts/dp/1532606338
cited in “Carol Reed, Odd Man Out (1947)” A Shaper Focus, Dr. Norman Holland, University of Florida (2017): https://www.asharperfocus.com/OddMan.html
Words on Screen by Michel Chion. Edited and Translated by Claudia Gorbman. Noted: “Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism” University of California Press, Vol. 45, no. 1 (2017) https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/45/1/27/20581/Review-Words-on-Screen-by-Michel-Chion
The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema by Robert Kolker. Noted: “Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism” University of California Press, Vol. 44, no. 6 (2017) https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/44/6/31/20560/Review-The-Extraordinary-Image-Orson-Welles-Alfred
The Magic World of Orson Welles: Centennial Anniversary Edition by James Naramore, Noted: “Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism” University of California Press, Vol. 44, no. 4 (2017) https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/43/4/45/3342/Review-The-Magic-World-of-Orson-Welles
At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City by Matthew Asprey Gear, Noted: “Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism” University of California Press, Vol. 44, no. 3 (2016) https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/44/3/43/20516/Review-At-the-End-of-the-Street-in-the-Shadow
“What’s So Important about the Arts and Humanities?” RED Talks, Roberts Wesleyan College (September, 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfvz79PaiXw&t=1062s
“Trumpism and the New Civil War” “Trump: TV Hero or Villain?” presenter, panel: “Politics and Civic Life: The Trump Era and Social Change” Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (November 2019)
“Trump: TV Hero or Villain?” chair and presenter, panel: “Transplanting Characters, Altering Genres” Saviors or Sociopaths: Film & History Annual Conference: Madison, Wisconsin (November 2018)
“Watching Cosmic Time in Midcentury Suspense Films” presenter, panel: Design, Sound, and Vision in Midcentury Media: Kern Conference in Visual Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology (April, 2018)
Courses Taught
GEO 201 Cultural Geography
HST 300 Topics in Non-Western History
PSC 301 Principles of Political Science