Personal Information
- First Name
- Matthew
- Last Name
- Snyder
- Institution
- University of California, Riverside
- Position
- Lecturer
- Notes
Matthew Snyder is a recent recipient of his Ph.D. from UC Riverside's English Department, and a longtime PAMLA groupie. His areas of study include Film and Visual Culture and Postcolonial and American Literature. His dissertation, entitled, "Welcome to the Suck: Film and Media Phantasms of the Gulf War" is an extended cultural studies work on the cinema of that war and its critical refraction of Colonialism, Inc. as seen in the films of John Gianvito, Werner Herzog and David O. Russell. He has either published or conferenced on topics and authors as various as Brian Turner's "Here, Bullet," Alfonso Cuaron's "Children of Men," Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," Franz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks," James Cameron's "The Abyss" and the Coen brother's "Fargo." He currently resides in Riverside and works at UCR as a lecturer, teaching literature and rhetoric for the University Writing Program.
Membership Information
History
- Member for
- 1 year 51 weeks
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