John T. Matthews
jtmattws@bu.edu

Professor; Education:  B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins 

Teaching and Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century fiction, especially American; Southern literature and culture; modernism; literary theory

Selected Publications: 'The Sound and the Fury': Faulkner and the Lost Cause (1990); The Play of Faulkner's Language (1982); "American Writing of the Great War," in The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War; "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); "Whose America? Faulkner, Modernism and National Identity," in Faulkner at 100 (2000); "'Touching Race' in Go Down, Moses," in New Essays on 'Go Down, Moses' (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; Editor, A Companion to the Modern American Novel (Blackwell); Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (Blackwell)

Honors, Grants, and Awards:  President, The William Faulkner Society (2006-2009); NEH Senior Research Fellowship (1984-85, 1995-96). Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006)