photograph by Patrick Hinely

Christopher Matthews
Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Department of English
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-5868
DuPont Hall 204
email: matthewsc@wlu.edu

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Michigan, 2002
M.A., English, University of Michigan, 1998
M.F.A., Poetry, Warren Wilson College, 1997
B.A., English, Kalamazoo College, 1993

Research and Writing Interests

Victorian literature, Romanticism, history of sexuality, contemporary poetry and creative writing.

Teaching

English 105—Composition and Literature
English 214—From Frankenstein to Frankenstein:  Monsters, Romantic to Modern
English 345—Victorian Literature: Victorian Failure
English 341—Romantic Poetry and Prose
English 363—American Poetry, 1900-1950

Seminar and Capstone Topics

Repression & Confession: Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Selected Publications

"Love at First Sight: The Velocity of Victorian Heterosexuality." Victorian Studies, Volume 46, number 3 (Autumn 2004).

"'A Relation, Oh Bliss! unto Others': Heterosexuality and the Ordered Liberties of The Bothie of Toper-Na-Fuosich."  Nineteenth-Century Literature, Volume 58, number 4 (March 2004).

"Desire on the Move: An Interview with Valerie Traub and Elizabeth Wingrove."  Michigan Feminist Studies, Number 15 (Fall 2001).

Poems in The Cream City Review, The Gettysburg Review, River Styx, The Cortland Review, American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, New Virginia Review, The Laurel Review, Mississippi Review, The Antioch Review, and Gulf Coast.

Work in Progress

Article:  "The Fifth Appendage:  Purses, Pockets, and Hermaphroditic Desires"

Book Project:  "Moral Passions":  Victorian Literature, Politics, and Spectacles of Love

Poetry Manuscript:  Astronomia Mia


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