Matthew Hart
Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature & Director of Graduate Studies
My Contact Info
408F Philosophy, Mail Code: 4927, United States Office Hours Fall 2022
Wednesdays 11:00am-12:00pm (in person), Thursdays 10:00am- 12:00pm (Zoom), and by appointmentFor Zoom, use this link: —https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/9065017368
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Matthew Hart
Research Interests
20th and 21st CenturyModernism
Poetry and Poetics
Postcolonial and Global South
Political Theory
The Contemporary Novel
Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel
Law and Humanities
American and the Americas
Europe
Narrative and Rhetorical Theory
Britain
Biography
M.A. (Hons.), Edinburgh University (1996); M.A., Sussex University (1997); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2004).?Matt?Hart?specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century English literatures, with an emphasis on modernism, poetry, contemporary writing, and literary theory. He is also interested in connections between literature and the visual arts and between literary history and political history. He regularly teaches?Literature Humanities?and?Contemporary Civilization?in the Columbia Core Curriculum. Recent classes in English and Comparative Literature include "'Sally Rooney': Authorship in the 21st Century," “The Problem of Late Modernism,” “Black British Literature,” “Contemporary Literature and the Contemporary Critic,” “Literary Geographies,” “Late, Untimely, Uneven,” and “What is Art For?”Matt's publications include?Nations of Nothing But Poetry?(Oxford U. P., 2010/2013) and?Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction?(Columbia U. P., 2020). He is co-editor of?Contemporary Literature and the State, a Special Issue of?Contemporary Literature?(2008, with Jim Hansen) and?Site Specificity Without Borders,?a Special Issue of?ASAP/Journal?(2017, with David Alworth). He is currently at work on a new fifty-chapter?Routledge Companion to the Novel, which he is co-editing with Stephanie de Gooyer, Sheri-Marie Harrison, and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. His new book projects include a work of cultural and family history and a study of contemporary literature from the standpoint of theories of social collapse.
Matt's essays on contemporary literature and art are out or forthcoming in?Public Books, Post45: Contemporaries, Criticism,?Modern Fiction Studies,?and?NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction.?His collaborative interviews with novelists?Tom McCarthy?and?Rachel Kushner?are featured in?Contemporary Literature, which journal?Matt?served from 2008-2015 as Associate Editor for British and Anglophone Literature.?In addition to his teaching and writing, Matt is Founding Co-Editor (with David James and Rebecca L. Walkowitz) of the Columbia University Press book series,?Literature Now. He is a former?President of the?Modernist Studies Association?and?A.S.A.P.: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.??
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