Education

BA (Toronto Metropolitan University), MA (Brock), PhD (University of Toronto)

Biography

Matthew I. Thompson is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto in 2020. He is currently working on a book project under contract with the University of Minnesota Press entitled On Life Support: The Dystopian Environmentalism of 1970s Ecocinema. On Life Support uses 1970s science fiction ecocinema as a lens through which to view the early environmental movement, a lens that exposes many of the assumptions that continue to influence environmental politics to the present. Other areas of interest include Indigenous futurism, critical animal studies, and film philosophy. Matthew has published in the journals Spectator, World Picture, and The New Review of Film and Television Studies.