Matthew Kapell
Appearance
Matthew Kapell (August 14 1969-) is a historian and anthropologist best known for his 2004 edited volume (with William G. Doty) Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation. He is also known for a number of historical essays published in the journal Extrapolation, and elswhere, on speculative fiction in the United States. Recently he has begun publishing under his married name, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell.
He has also published a number of co-authored chapters on the genetics of human growth and the study of growth and the effects of poverty on growth. The majority of his work has thus far appeared while he taught anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.