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. From 2014 to 2021, he directed Wesleyan's Certificate in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory.