Matthew Fee, Ph.D.

Dr. Fee has presented and published on Irish cinema, television, and visual cultures; contemporary documentary; and horror films. He 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 book FANTASTIC SPACES: IRISH CINEMA AND THE SUPERNATURAL was published by Syracuse University Press in 2025. His current research project explores Irish cinema of the 1980s.

EDUCATION:

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

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Dr. Fee’s primary areas of research are Irish film, media, and visual culture; global film genres; and Irish studies.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• FANTASTIC SPACES: IRISH CINEMA AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Syracuse University Press, 2025.
• “‘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).
• “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).
• “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:

• “Adaptation and the Archive in I, DOLOURS and SAY NOTHING” Visible Evidence XXXI Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2025.
• “Streaming the Green,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, Illinois, April 2025.
• “The Irish on American Screens and Streams,” 5th Annual Eileen Patricia McMahon Zogby ’67 Irish Lecture, Le Moyne College, March 2025.
• “The Documentaries of Ireland’s ‘Desperate Optimists,’” Visible Evidence XXX Conference, Melbourne, Australia, December 2024.
• “The Eighties in Irish Cinema,” American Conference for Irish Studies National Conference, Limerick, Ireland, June 2024.