Matthew Thompson
Dr. Matthew Thompson teaches studies courses. Matthew earned his PhD from the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Matthew’s research investigates the ways that science fiction media express environmental politics. His forthcoming book, On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s (University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2026), 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. He has published in the journals Spectator, World Picture, and The New Review of Film and Television Studies.