Matthew Creighton
Lecturer, Humanities and Rhetoric
Teaching Interests
Religion and Literature; Holocaust Representation; European & American Rhetorical Traditions
Research Interests
German Literature; Modern Jewish Culture; Literary Reception of the Bible
Selected Publications
“On the Pleromatic: The Gnostic Myth in Women in Love”, Religion and the Arts 22.3
“Tracing Montaigne: The Evolution And Convolution Of An Essayist”, Glossolalia 6.1
“Modest, Modesty,” in Encyclopedia of The Bible and Its Reception, Volume 19, (New York: De Gruyter, 2021)
“A Recalcitrant Influence: The Legacy of Harold Bloom”, Sightings, October 24, 2019
Review of Jennifer L. Geddes, Kafka’s Ethics of Interpretation: Between Tyranny and Despair (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016) in Reading Religion
Other Professional Activity and/or Awards
Undergraduate Mentor, College Access & Student Success, Boston University
Advisor, Core Honors Program, Boston University Core Curriculum
Joseph Shatzmiller Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Duke University
Nathan Scott Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago Divinity School
Alma Wilson Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago Divinity School