About Me
Matt Bennett is an Associate Professor in the Media Communications & Technology department at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. He joined the department in 2005 as an adjunct instructor, became annually appointed as an adjunct in 2006 and received his full-time, tenure-track appointment in 2010. He has previously taught in the Cinema Studies program of the Department of Literature and Languages at Northern Kentucky University and in the Department of English at Southwestern College, and in 2019 he was a Visiting Professor at Xi’an International Studies University in China.
He holds a dual Bachelor of Arts in English (British Literature concentration) and Communication from the University of Louisville, a Bachelor of Arts in Electronic Media from Xavier University and a Master of Arts in Humanities from Xavier University. He completed a graduate certificate in Asian Studies from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati, and he is currently completing a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence at the Udacity Institute of AI and Technology, a degree conferred through Woolf. He has worked professionally in the commercial and non-profit sectors as a web and graphic designer; as a videographer, grip, and production assistant in film and video production; and most recently as Electronic Media Coordinator for Cincinnati Metro public transit.
At UCBA, Matt teaches American Cinema, World Cinema, Media Aesthetics, Media Design Foundations, Preproduction Planning, Professional Practice, Degree Project Studio, and Applied Media Methods, and he has developed a new course, Exploring GenAI in Creative Workflows, planned for its first offering in Spring 2027. His areas of research are film genre studies (horror and science fiction), media aesthetics, computational approaches to psychoanalytic theory, generative AI in creative and pedagogical practice, narrative analysis and construction, Asian national cinemas and visual cultures, and gender/race/LGBTQIA+ issues in visual representation.
His current research applies computational methods to psychoanalytic theory and to narrative. Das Mich / Project Psyche models the Freudian structural apparatus as a system of interacting agents, mapping each functional requirement to a named metapsychological mechanism with citations to both the Strachey Standard Edition and the Solms Revised Standard Edition. Havenpass develops a director/actor architecture for narrative agent systems, deriving its design from a synthesis of twenty-three papers in the agent-architecture and interactive-narrative literature. Both run locally on his own hardware using open-source models. Alongside this work he has completed university coursework in applied artificial intelligence and machine learning, programming, database management, cognitive psychology, and sensation and perception, and in 2026 he was accepted into AIEOU (AI in Education at Oxford University), a research hub based in Oxford’s Department of Education.
He has presented research internationally at Cambridge University in Cambridge, UK; Sapientia University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania; J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, Japan; and the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, Canada. Other presentation venues include the Popular Culture Association National Conference, the Kentucky Philological Association Annual Conference, the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, and the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. In October 2026 he presents at the III TFO International Seminar, “Thinking Beyond Species: Cinema in the Anthropocene,” at Alliance University in Bengaluru, India.
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