Matthew Fee, Ph.D.

Dr. Fee’s primary areas of research are Irish film, media, and visual culture; Irish studies; and global film genres. He has presented and published on Irish cinema and visual cultures, contemporary documentary, horror films, and post-9/11 cinema. Dr. Fee has previously taught classes on introductory film analysis and advanced fiction film theory, Irish Cinema, the American Horror Film, and directors such as Orson Welles, David Cronenberg, George Romero, and Wes Craven. In the Honors Program, he teaches HON111 Honors English–which focuses on Irish film and literature–as well as HON380 Honors Thesis Research and HON480 Honors Thesis Project.

With almost thirty years in higher education administration, Dr. Fee has held positions in administration, advising, and program development at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and Syracuse University. Prior to joining Le Moyne, he served for ten years as the Director of the Park Scholar Program at Ithaca College.

Dr. Fee’s recently completed book on Irish cinema and the fantastic is under contract at Syracuse University Press.

EDUCATION:

• B.A. Communication, La Salle University, Philadelphia
• Ph.D. Cinema Studies, New York University

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• “Irish-Americanness in Late Twentieth-Century Hollywood Films,” in The Routledge History of Irish America, ed. Cian T. McMahon and Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (Routledge, 2024).
• “‘Lockdown Lovers’: The Spaces of Television’s Normal People,” in Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches, ed. Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible (Bucknell University Press, forthcoming).
• “The Women Incarnate of Words Upon the Window Pane,” in Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama on Screen, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Marc C. Conner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
• “‘Seeing Too Much is Seeing Nothing’: The Place of Fashion within the Documentary Frame” in Documenting the Visual Arts, ed. Roger Hallas (Routledge: London and New York, 2019), 174-188.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS:

• “Irish Americanness in Late Twentieth-Century Hollywood Films,” American Conference for Irish Studies National Conference, San Jose, California, June 2023.
• “Uncanny Maternity in Contemporary Irish Horror Films,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Denver, Colorado, April 2023.
• “Gender and Genre in Contemporary Irish Film,” American Conference for Irish Studies National Conference, online, April 2022.
• “Curriculum and Canon: Teaching Irish Cinema” webinar participant, April 2021.