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John T. Matthews
jtmattws@bu.edu

Professor; Associate Chair.  B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins 

Teaching and Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American fiction; Southern literature and culture, especially Faulkner; modernism; literary theory.
Selected Publications: William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (2009); A Companion to the Modern American Novel, Editor(2009); ‘The Sound and the Fury’: Faulkner and the Lost Cause (1990); The Play of Faulkner's Language (1982); “Many Mansions: Faulkner’s Cold War Conflicts,” in Global Faulkner: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2006 (2009); “Globalizing the U.S. South: Modernity and Modernism,” American Literature (2006); “American Writing of the Great War,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (2005); “Recalling the West Indies: From Yoknapatawpha to Haiti and Back,” American Literary History (2004); “This Race Which is Not One: ‘The Inextricable Compositeness’ of Faulkner’s South,” in Look Away! The U.S. South and New World Studies (2004); “‘Touching Race’ in Go Down, Moses,” in New Essays on ‘Go Down, Mose’ (1996); “Faulkner and the Culture Industry,” in A Faulkner Companion (1994); “As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age,” Boundary 2 (1992); “Shortened Stories: Faulkner and the Market,” in Faulkner and the Short Story (1992); “Intertextual Frameworks: The Ideology of Parody in John Barth,” in Essays on Intertextuality and Contemporary American Literature (1989); “Framing in ‘Wuthering Heights’,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language (1985); “The Elliptical Nature of Sanctuary,” Novel (1984).
Work in Progress: Look Away, Look Awry: The Problem of the South in the American Imagination.
Honors, Grants, and Awards:  NEH Senior Research Fellowship (1984-85, 1995-96); Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006); President, The Faulkner Society (2006-2009).