Matthew Carl Garrett
Associate Professor of English
285 Court Street, 309860-685-3598
Associate Professor, American Studies
BA Bard CollegeMA Stanford University
MPHIL Cambridge University
PHD Stanford University
Matthew Carl Garrett
Matthew Garrett's writing and teaching concern the relationship between literary form and social history. He is the author of Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2014) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory (2018), and his essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Quarterly, Critical Inquiry, ELH, the Journal of Cultural Economy, Radical History Review, and other venues. Garrett's current book project, "Reading Is Theft: Literature and the Culture of Property," examines the history and ethics of reading since the sixteenth century. From 2014 to 2021, he directed Wesleyan's Certificate in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. He is co-president of the Wesleyan University Chapter of the AAUP.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Fall 2023: On sabbatical. Spring 2024: TBD.
Courses
Spring 2024
ENGL 209 - 01
Seduction to Civil War
ENGL 327 - 01
Criticism and Psychoanalysis