Matthew Stoddard

Professor Stoddard has taught in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga since 2015, and joined English at UTSC in 2021. His teaching, which has spanned cinema studies and media studies courses, combines fine-grained textual analysis with wide-ranging theoretical reflection. His film courses focus on the interrelationship between aesthetics and politics in mainstream North American cinema as well as in radical, oppositional cinema from around the globe and across film history. He has taught classes on topics including Stanley Kubrick, horror, film theory, “anti-Hollywood,” and Canadian cinema. Professor Stoddard has published in Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Film Criticism, and Angelaki, among other places. He holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies and moving image studies from the University of Minnesota.