Matthew Brown, Assistant Professor and Associate Chair

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate: Modern British Fiction, Postcolonial Literary Studies, Terrorism and the Novel, Contemporary British Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and World Literature, On Violence, Travel and the Imagination, Five British Writers, The Modern Period

Graduate: Literary Theory Today, “Weird” English and the “New” Cosmopolitanism, Studies in Modern British Fiction

Co-faculty sponsor: Literary Theory Reading Group (along with Professor Scott Maisano)

Research and Teaching Interests:

Global literatures in English; twentieth and twenty-first century British and Irish literature; transnational modernism; postcolonial theory, especially theories on cosmopolitanism and citizenship; critical theory; film studies

Current Projects:

Fascinating States: Violence, Modernity, and the Novel (book manuscript in preparation)

Publications:

• “Reading the Difficult Text.” Radical Teacher 82 (2008): 8-12.  Included in special issue, “Teaching Post-Colonial Literatures in the Age of Empire,” edited by Linda Dittmar and Pepi Leistyna.       

• “In/Outside Scotland: Race and Citizenship in the Work of Jackie Kay.” The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Ed. Berthold Schoene. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 219-227.

• “Is There Anything ‘Post-’ about Postnationalist Ireland?” The Irish Review 34.1 (2006): 91-107.

• “Darwin at Church: John Tyndall’s Belfast Address.” Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Ed. James Murphy. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 235-246.

Review Essays, Book Reviews, and Encyclopedia Entries

• “The Atlantic Ocean, Andrew O’Hagan; Day, A.L. Kennedy; Girl Meets Boy, Ali Smith,” (review essay). Harvard Review 36 (2009): 235-237.

• “Nuruddin Farah, Knots,” (review). Harvard Review 34 (2008): 203-205.

• “Ricardo Quinones, Dualisms,” (review). Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (forthcoming).

• “John Banville, The Sea,” (review). E-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies. 1.4 (2006): 17-20.

• “Education,” (entry). Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Sean Duffy. New York: Routledge Press, 2004. 150-153.

Office: Wheatley-6-6
Telephone: 617-287-6726
Email: matthew.brown@umb.edu