Garrett, Matthew Carl

Assistant Professor of English
English Department
860.685.3598

BA Bard College
MPHIL Cambridge University
MA Stanford University
PHD Stanford University

EMAIL:

mcgarrett@wesleyan.edu

PERSONAL HOME PAGE:

http://mcgarrett.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

COURSES TAUGHT:

ENGL201 - 03
ENGL203 - 01

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

American literature; literary theory; politics and literature

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Matthew Garrett teaches courses on narrative theory and American literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. His work is broadly concerned with literary form and social history. He is completing a book, Episodic Poetics in the Early Republic, which seeks to explain the preponderance of episodic narrative forms -- wildly plotted novels, peculiarly constructed memoirs, and linked serial essays -- through reference to the social and political conflicts of the period after the American Revolution. He is also writing a study of narrative time that connects the social dimensions of reading, especially the relationship between leisure and labor, to the formal theories of narratology.