Joshua Matthews
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Educational
and Professional History
Education
University of Iowa (2005-2012)
Ph.D.
(Spring 2012), Department of English
Early
and 19th Century American Literature
Dissertation:
“The American Alighieri: Receptions of Dante and the Divine Comedy
in the United States,
1818-1867” (Director: Ed Folsom)
Kent State University (2003-2005)
M.A.,
Department of English
Indiana University (2000-2003)
B.A.,
English
Academic Appointments
Dordt College (2012-present)
Assistant
Professor of English
University of Northern
Colorado (2009-2011)
Part-Time
Lecturer, Department of English
University of Iowa (2008-2009)
Instructor
and Teaching Assistant, Department of English
Walt
Whitman Quarterly Review
(2006-2008)
Managing
Editor
Edited
the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (www.uiowa.edu/~wwqr) under Ed Folsom, at
the University of Iowa; managed journal issues through all stages of
production; maintained WWQR website
and bibliographical database for both the WWQR
and the Walt Whitman Archive; trained
manuscripts archivists in encoding electronic documents
Walt
Whitman Archive (2005-2008)
Editorial
Assistant
Encoded
and tagged Walt Whitman’s manuscripts and notebooks for the Walt
Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org); programmed in XML using TEI
guidelines for electronic text encoding
Wick Poetry Center (2003-2005)
Graduate
Fellow
Coordinated
poetry readings for the Wick
Poetry Center at Kent State University; served as chair and judge on the
Wick Poetry Scholarship competition committee, which awarded $18,000 in
scholarship monies to current and incoming Kent State students; assisted in the
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry prize First
Book Competition; served as webmaster of the Wick Poetry Center website
Kent State University (2004-2005)
Instructor,
Department of English
Teaching
Dordt College
Themes
in Literature: Science Fiction (ENG 222)
Responding
to Literature (CORE 180)
English
Composition (CORE 120)
University of Northern Colorado
Survey of American Literature (ENG 211)
Introduction to Literature (ENG 131)
College Research Paper (ENG 123)
College Composition (ENG 122)
University of Iowa
Interpretation of Literature (08G:001)
Kent State University
College English (10001)
Scholarship
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Essays
“Peddlers
of the Rod: Melville’s ‘The Lightning-Rod Man’ and the Antebellum Periodical
Market,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville
Studies 12 (October 2010): 55-70.
Short Articles
“Davy
Crockett,” “John Rollin Ridge,” “Mardi,”
“Pierre, or the Ambiguities,” and “Roughing It” in Encyclopedia of American Literature, revised edition. Facts on
File, 2008.
Presentations
(Invited)
“‘Ever in Darkness Marching’: Whitman’s Incorporation of Dante’s Inferno in his Civil War Poetry,” American Literature Association Conference,
San Francisco, CA, May 2012.
(Invited)
“Longfellow’s Contradiction: Patriotism and Pacifism in Tales of a Wayside Inn,” Midwest
Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2011.
“Dante’s
Inferno in Dante’s Inferno, or Longfellow Enters the World of Video Games,” American Literature Association Conference,
Boston, MA, May 2011.
“Whitman’s
History-Making Falmouth Camp Notebook: Constructing the Civil War for the New York Times and Drum-Taps,” American
Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2008.
“Walt Whitman’s Journey through Hell:
Dante Alighieri’s Influence on Whitman’s Drum-Taps
Sequence,” College English
Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2008.
“Grounding God’s
Providence: Lightning Rods and New England Calvinism in Late Eighteenth-Century
America,” The Biennial Conference for the Society for Early Americanists / Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, 2007.
Fellowships and Awards
Timely Completion of
Dissertation Award, University of Iowa (2012)
First Year Scholars
Outstanding Faculty Nominee, University of Northern Colorado (2010)
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, University
of Iowa (2009)
