Matt Schmidt

Biography
Matthew Schmidt, adjunct assistant professor, earned his Ph.D. in English/American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His areas of interest include film education, social diversity in the arts, and the relations between film and literature. From 1987 to 1994 he served as Managing Editor of MELUS, the quarterly journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. He has taught cinema studies and American literature at Hampshire College, Commonwealth Honors College at UMass Amherst, and Clark University, including courses in film and ethnicity, film genres, U.S. independent film, American and European “new waves” of the sixties and seventies, film and literature. His courses in the art of the screenplay are inspired by his own study and practice of screenwriting at the University Film Study Center’s former Institute Program, under renown film educator, Frank Daniel, late head of the film programs at Prague, AFI, Columbia and USC.

January 2010
HACU-0176-1 Crafting the American Short Story

Fall 2009
IA-0145-1 The Screenwriter As Social Critic

January 2009
HACU-0114-1 Screenplay Analysis: Forms and Techniques of Cinematic Storytelling

January 2008
HACU-0134-1Thrillers: Espionage, Conspiracy, and Politics in World Cinema