Matthew Knudsen

Matt Knudsen is a PhD candidate who completed a BA in Film Production at Loyola Marymount University in 2005. After graduation, he worked as a writer, director, cinematographer, and editor on short films, music videos, docs, and commercials across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. He completed his MFA at UCLA in 2017 after writing and directing his first feature film, which played festivals in the US and Europe before being picked up for international distribution. In 2019 he completed his Film and Media Studies MA at Columbia University. He has taught classes in film production, editing, cinematography, film history, film analysis, film narrative, rhetoric, English composition, Technical Communication, and Strategic Communication. He is currently working on multiple text-based and video-based essay projects in the field of postclassical narratology.