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Matthew Eatough

Lecturer

Research Area

  • Postcolonial Literature and Theory (esp. South Africa and Ireland)
  • British and Irish Modernism
  • World-Systems Theory
  • Affect Theory
  • Globalization, Transnationalism, and Cosmopolitanism

Current Research

  • Long Waves of Modernity: The Affective History of the Novel, 1880-1980 (book manuscript)

Professional Societies

  • Modern Language Association
  • Modernist Studies Association
  • American Comparative Literature Association
  • Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

Professional Honors

  • Thomas Daniel Young Award for Excellence in Teaching (2012)
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (2011)
  • Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship (2011-12)
  • Robert Manson Myers Award (2011)
  • Dissertation Enhancement Grant (2010)
  • Martha Ingram Fellowship, Vanderbilt University (2010-2011)
  • Provost’s Research Grant, Z. Smith Reynold’s Library, Wake Forest University (2010-11)
  • Summer Research Award, Vanderbilt University (2010)
  • John M. Aden Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Writing (2009)

Representative publications

  • “Accommodating Intimacy, Compromising Sex.” *Twentieth Century Literature* (review essay, forthcoming)
  • "Elizabeth Bowen's *Bowen's Court* and the Anglo-Irish World-System." *Modern Language Quarterly* 73.1 (forthcoming March 2012)
  • Assistant Editor. *The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms*. Ed. Mark Wollaeger. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
  • “The Time That Remains: Organ Donation, Temporal Duration, and Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s *Never Let Me Go*.” *Literature and Medicine* 29.1 (Spring 2011)
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