Matthew Noble-Olson is a scholar of visual culture with interests in film theory, avant-garde cinema, digital cinema, moving-image installation, and aesthetics. He is currently completing a manuscript titled Exile, Trauma, Ruin:The Forms of Cinematic Lateness, which theorizes lateness in twentieth-and twenty-first-century cinema. His writing has appeared in Discourse, Modernism/Modernity, New German Critique, and Cultural Critique. He teaches film studies at the University of Michigan.