Website: joshmatthews.org
Youtube Channel: Learning About Movies
Josh Matthews teaches early American literature, science fiction, World Literature 1, Intro to Film as Art, Business and Technical Writing, and CORE Composition and Literature classes..
He also co-leads a class on Dante and the Italian Renaissance, which includes a nine-day trip to Florence, Italy.
He has published on the reception of Dante and the Divine Comedy in nineteenth-century America, and on American readings of the Divine Comedy during the Civil War.
He edits the book reviews for Pro Rege, Dordt University's journal of reformed studies. He has also helped edit the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and the Walt Whitman Archive. He co-leads the annual Great Texts Seminar for Dordt Faculty every spring.
Courses Taught
Institutional History
Academic Publications
What do children’s movies say about culture and what we value? The international films on this list resist the noise of mainstream media and return us to stories that nourish rather than exhaust.
When convenience and connection are sold as progress, what do we sacrifice in the process? Films like The Circle force us to confront uncomfortable truths and evaluate where we place our trust and hope in a quickly evolving digital age.
