Rate My Professor Matthew Cipa

Cipa has made notable contributions to academic literature through diverse publications. His debut monograph, "Is Harpo Free?: And Other Questions of the Metaphysical Screen," appeared in 2024 with SUNY Press. Key book chapters include "A friend out of an enemy: screen space and the traversal of sociocultural boundaries in A Majority of One" (2025, Rutgers University Press), "Ferrara’s polarizing critical reception: clarity, coherence, and incongruity" (2024, Edinburgh University Press, co-authored with Ted Nannicelli and Joel Fantini), "The role of philosophy in Schiller’s prose" (2023, Palgrave Macmillan), and "Performative restraint and the challenges of empathy in being there and phantom thread" (2022, University of Texas Press). Journal publications feature "A tale of two donkeys: transcendent creatures and transcendental style in Au Hasard Balthazar and EO" (2024, Senses of Cinema), "Jackass Forever, directed by Jeff Tremaine, MTV Films, 2022" (2023, Australasian Journal of American Studies), and book reviews in Projections (2020 and 2016). Additionally, he is the sole editor and contributor to "Starting Over: Amnesia and Personal Identity in Film and Television," under contract with SUNY Press. As a dedicated educator, Cipa teaches in Film and Television Studies and is available for PhD supervision as an Associate Advisor.