Matthew Carl Garrett
CPE Instructor
Associate Professor of English
285 Court Street, 309860-685-3598
Associate Professor, American Studies
Coordinator, Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory
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 journals. 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. At Wesleyan, he directs the Certificate in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Mondays 4:30-5:30pm, by appointment. Contact Professor Garrett via email to schedule a meeting.
Courses
Spring 2021
ENGL 258 - 01
New World Poetics
ENGL 327 - 01
Criticism and Psychoanalysis
ENGL 327O - 01
Criticism and Psychoanalysis