Matthew W. Jarvis is a scholar of visual culture and media studies as well as an honors fellow at Columbus State University. His research focuses on the intersection of horror cinema, political theory, and American institutions. He is also host of the award-winning academic series Spooky Evenings.

"A unique approach to nineties horror cinema and one the discourse needs. Jarvis finds links between the horror onscreen and the issues haunting America after the end of the Cold War, compelling readers to rethink these films and the period that produced them as much more evocative, provocative, and meaningful than popularly considered." - Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema and Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters"A defining work in the field of nineties horror, Monsters in God’s Country recasts the decade as a space where horror reflects and refracts the social issues that seeded the ground for our contemporary political landscape. If horror movies are a window into the anxieties of a particular cultural moment, Jarvis demonstrates, over and over again in new ways, what that actually means." - Brandon R. Grafius, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters

Matthew W. Jarvis is a scholar of visual culture and media studies as well as an honors fellow at Columbus State University. His research focuses on the intersection of horror cinema, political theory, and American institutions. He is also host of the award-winning academic series Spooky Evenings.

"A unique approach to nineties horror cinema and one the discourse needs. Jarvis finds links between the horror onscreen and the issues haunting America after the end of the Cold War, compelling readers to rethink these films and the period that produced them as much more evocative, provocative, and meaningful than popularly considered." - Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema and Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters"A defining work in the field of nineties horror, Monsters in God’s Country recasts the decade as a space where horror reflects and refracts the social issues that seeded the ground for our contemporary political landscape. If horror movies are a window into the anxieties of a particular cultural moment, Jarvis demonstrates, over and over again in new ways, what that actually means." - Brandon R. Grafius, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters

Matthew W. Jarvis is a scholar of visual culture and media studies as well as an honors fellow at Columbus State University. His research focuses on the intersection of horror cinema, political theory, and American institutions. He is also host of the award-winning academic series Spooky Evenings.

"A unique approach to nineties horror cinema and one the discourse needs. Jarvis finds links between the horror onscreen and the issues haunting America after the end of the Cold War, compelling readers to rethink these films and the period that produced them as much more evocative, provocative, and meaningful than popularly considered." - Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema and Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters"A defining work in the field of nineties horror, Monsters in God’s Country recasts the decade as a space where horror reflects and refracts the social issues that seeded the ground for our contemporary political landscape. If horror movies are a window into the anxieties of a particular cultural moment, Jarvis demonstrates, over and over again in new ways, what that actually means." - Brandon R. Grafius, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters