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Matthew Eatough is Associate Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College, CUNY, where he teaches courses on the twentieth- and twentieth-first century novel, publishing and book history, and world literature. He is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (shortlisted for the 2013 Modernist Studies Association Best Book Award), and is the recipient of the Abioseh Porter Award from the African Literature Association and the Margaret Church Modern Fiction StudiesMemorial Prize. His articles and reviews have appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Research in African Literatures, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, The Ancillary Review of Books, and The Los Angeles Review of Books (among others). He is currently working on three book projects: a study of corporate ideology in the contemporary African novel (tentatively titled Open for Business: A Literary History of the Corporation in Africa, 1945-2024); a monograph about the globalization of twenty-first century Irish literature; and a history of translated fiction in Anglo-American small presses.
Education
Ph.D., English, Vanderbilt University Nashville TN
M.A., English, Vanderbilt University Nashville TN
M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago Chicago IL
B.A., English/History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI
| Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | ENG | 4420 | 20 Cent British Lit |
| Spring 2025 | ENG | 4615 | The Global Business of Lit |
| Fall 2024 | ENG | 5000 | Independent Study English I |
| Fall 2024 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Fall 2024 | ENG | 4745 | Horror Fiction |
| Fall 2024 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Fall 2024 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Summer 2024 | ENG | 4420 | 20 Cent British Lit |
| Spring 2023 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Spring 2023 | ENG | 6002H | Honors English II |
| Spring 2023 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2023 | ENG | 3215 | Literature and Globalization |
| Spring 2023 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Fall 2022 | BLS | 3845 | Genres of African Literature |
| Fall 2022 | ENG | 6001H | Honors-English I |
| Fall 2022 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Fall 2022 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Summer 2022 | ENG | 4420 | 20 Cent British Lit |
| Spring 2022 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2022 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2022 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Fall 2021 | ENG | 4615 | The Global Business of Lit |
| Summer 2021 | ENG | 4420 | 20 Cent British Lit |
| Spring 2021 | ENG | 2850H | Honors Great Works II |
| Spring 2021 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
| Spring 2021 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2021 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Fall 2020 | BLS | 3085 | Special Topics Bls |
| Fall 2020 | ENG | 3030 | Cont Lit Asia,Afr,La |
| Fall 2020 | ENG | 3215 | Literature and Globalization |
| Fall 2020 | ENG | 2850H | Honors Great Works II |
| Summer 2020 | ENG | 4420 | 20 Cent British Lit |
| Spring 2020 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Spring 2020 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2020 | ENG | 5000 | Independent Study English I |
| Spring 2020 | ENG | 3215 | Literature and Globalization |
| Fall 2019 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Fall 2019 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Fall 2019 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2019 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2019 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2019 | ENG | 5000 | Independent Study English I |
| Spring 2019 | ENG | 4615 | The Global Business of Lit |
| Fall 2018 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Fall 2018 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Fall 2018 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Fall 2018 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Fall 2017 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Fall 2017 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Fall 2017 | ENG | 5000 | Independent Study English I |
| Fall 2017 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
| Spring 2017 | GLS | 4900 | Global Studies Capstone |
| Spring 2017 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Spring 2017 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Spring 2017 | PSY | 4900 | Capstone: Psy Appr Cont Probl |
| Fall 2016 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
| Fall 2016 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Fall 2015 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
| Fall 2015 | ENG | 2850H | Honors Great Works II |
| Fall 2015 | ENG | 4420 | 20 Cent British Lit |
| Spring 2015 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Spring 2015 | ENG | 4440 | Currents in the Modern Novel |
| Fall 2014 | ENG | 3030 | Cont Lit Asia,Afr,La |
| Fall 2014 | ENG | 2850 | Great Works of Literature II |
| Spring 2014 | ENG | 3015 | Surv English Lit II |
| Spring 2014 | ENG | 2150 | Writing II |
| Fall 2013 | ENG | 3036 | Post-Colonial Literature |
| Fall 2013 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
Books
Eatough, M. (2023). Open For Business: A Literary History of the Corporation in Africa, 1945-2014. In Progress.
Eatough, M. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms. New York, NY, USA, Oxford University Press.
Eatough, M. L. The Global Networks of Irish Literature. In Progress.
Eatough, M. L., & Srikanth, S. World-Systems and World Literature. In Progress.
Journal Articles
(2025). The Global Imaginary of Irish Young Adult Fiction. LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 9,000 words.
Eatough, M., & Manase, I. (Eds.). (2022). Geographies of African Futures. Literary Geographies, 8(2). 110-118. In Progress.
Eatough, M. (2021). “Are They Going to Say This Is Fantasy?”: Kazuo Ishiguro, Untimely Genres, and the Making of Literary Prestige. Modern Fiction Studies, 67(1). 40-66.
Eatough, M. (2021). Global Modernisms Reconsidered. Dibur, 1(2). 1,500 words.
Eatough, M. (2020). How a Canon Is Formed: Censorship, Modernism, and the US Reception of Irish and South African Literature . Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 23(1). 120-143.
Eatough, M. (2019). The Critic as Modernist: Es'kia Mphahlele's Cold War Literary Criticism. Research in African Literatures, 50(3). 136-156.
Eatough, M. (2019). The Participatory Cultures of Omenana: Reading and Writing on a Nigerian SF Website. Post45, 3,600 words.
Eatough, M. (2018). Philology Contra Modernism: Translating Izibongo in Johannesburg. Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 3(3). 3,800 words.
Eatough, M. (2017). African Science Fiction and the Planning Imagination. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 4(2). 237-257.
Eatough, M. (2015). The Literary History of World-Systems, I: Marxist Lineages. Literature Compass, 12(11). 591-602.
Eatough, M. (2015). Planning the Future: Scenario Planning, Infrastructural Time, and South African Fiction. Modern Fiction Studies, 61(4). 587-611.
Eatough, M. (2015). The Literary History of World-Systems, II: World Literature and Deep Time. Literature Compass, 12(11). 603-614.
Eatough, M. (2013). National Citizens, Global Economies: Sarah Gertrude Millin and the Professionalization of Envy. Safundi, 14(3). 395-424.
Eatough, M. (2012). Bowen’s Court and the Anglo-Irish World-System. Modern Language Quarterly, 73(1). 69-94.
Eatough, M. (2011). The Time That Remains: Organ Donation, Temporal Duration, and Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Literature and Medicine, 29(1). 132-56.
Book Chapters
Eatough, M. (2024). Irish Fiction, Small Presses, and the World-System. Transnational Irish Literature (p. 6,000 words). Cambridge University Press.
Eatough, M. (2022). World-System: Literature and Geoculture. In Evans, J. (Ed.), Globalization and Literary Studies Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
Eatough, M. (2020). The Global Contemporary: The Humanitarian Legacy in Irish Fiction. In Reynolds, P. (Ed.), The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions (pp. 113-128). Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
Eatough, M. (2019). Futures, Inc.: South African Fiction in the Era of the African Renaissance. World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent (pp. 215-237). New York. Palgrave.
Eatough, M. (2016). Transatlantic Modernisms. In Straub, J. (Ed.), Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies (pp. 100-115). Berlin & New York, NY. de Gruyter.
Achebe: Modernity and Modernism. Chinua Achebe in Context (p. 6, 000 words). Cambridge University Press. In Progress.
Tramp and the Small-Press Revolution. Collection on Tramp Press (Final Title TBD) Bucknell University Press.
The Institutions of South African Modernism, 1920-1949. South African Modernisms In Progress.
Presentations
Eatough, M. L. Little Fiction: The International Networks of Small-Press Translation. Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies.
Eatough, M. L. Taking Risks: A Roundtable on Edna O'Brien. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid Atlantic and New England Regional Conference.
Eatough, M. L. Translating Minor Literatures: National Culture Institutes and the World Republic of Letters. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Conference.
Eatough, M. L. (2025, March 9). Fiction, Fashion, and the Creative Industries in West Africa. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. : American Comparative Literature Association.
Eatough, M. L. (2025, March 9). Postcolonialism, the World-System, and the Problem of Genre Fiction. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. : American Comparative Literature Association.
Eatough, M. L. The (Re)invention of Catalan Modernism. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference.
Eatough, M. L. Publication as Curation: Small Presses, Culture Institutes, and the New International Modernism. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference.
Eatough, M. L. African Science Fictions, West and South. African Literature Association Annual Conference.
Eatough, M. (2021, April 30). Small Presses and the New International Modernist Style. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. : American Comparative Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2021, June 30). What Is Global Irish Literature? (roundtable). American Confrerence for Irish Studies Annual Conference. : American Conference for Irish Studies.
Eatough, M. (2021, May 31). The Goethe-Institut and the Futurity of African Literature. African Literature Association Annual Conference. : African Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2019, July 31). The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions (roundtable). Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Dublin, Ireland: The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.
Eatough, M. (2019, March 31). An Afropolitan For(u)m? Class and Culture in Nigerian SF Websites. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.: American Comparative Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2019, October 31). Es'kia Mphahlele: The Critic as Modernist. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Toronto, CA: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2018, November 30). Sestiger Modernism and the 1961 South African Constitution. Modernist Studies Association Annual Meeting. Columbus, OH: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2018, June 30). The Humanitarian Legacy in Contemporary Irish Fiction. American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting. Cork, Ireland: American Conference for Irish Studies.
Eatough, M. (2018, July 31). African SF Periodicals and the Allure of Professionalism. Science Fiction Research Association Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI: Science Fiction Research Association.
Eatough, M. (2018, May 31). Futures, Inc.: South African Fiction in the Era of the African Renaissance. African Literature Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.: African Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2018, May 31). African Literary History and the Cold War (roundtable). African Literature Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.: African Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2018, June 30). The Novel in an Age of Intellectual Property. Conference of the Society for Novel Studies. Ithaca, NY: Society for Novel Studies.
Eatough, M. (2017, June 30). Afro SF and the Planning Imagination. African Literature Association Annual Meeting. New Haven, CT: African Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2017, July 31). When Culture Becomes Property: Irish and South African Writing in the Northern University. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Utrecht, Netherlands: American Comparative Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2016, May 31). Print Culture, the Literacy Boom, and Anglophone Literature in Africa. Society of Novel Studies Biannual Conference. Pittsburg, PA: Society for Novel Studies.
Eatough, M. (2016, March 31). Modernism, the Sestigers, and Academic Labor. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA: American Comparative Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2016, November 30). New African English. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Pasadena, CA: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2015, November 30). A Genealogy of Global Modernism. Global Modernism: State of the Field. New York, NY: Global Modernisms Group, NYU.
Eatough, M. (2015, August 31). On Peer Review. Fall Faculty Retreat & Orientation. Baruch College: Baruch Writing Program.
Eatough, M. (2015, November 30). Yeats and Global History. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2015, January 31). Academic Labor and the African Intellectual. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Vancouver, Canada: Modern Language Association.
Eatough, M. (2015, February 13). Doctoral Forum on English. Vanderbilt University, Department of English. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University.
Eatough, M. (2015, March 29). Planning the Future: Scenario Planning, Infrastructural Time, and South African Fiction. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA: American Comparative Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2014, June 30). A Brief History of Stupefaction: Global Consumerism and the Big House Novel. Joint Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association of Irish Studies. Dublin, Ireland: American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association of Irish Studies.
Eatough, M. (2014, November 30). The Global University’s Modernist Boom. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Pittsburg, PA: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2013, January 31). Institutions of Feeling: The Novel and the World-System. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Boston, MA: Modern Language Association.
Eatough, M. (2013, November 30). Claude McKay, W. M. Macmillan, and the Liberal Plantation. NYC Modernism Seminar. New York, NY: NYC Modernism Seminar.
Eatough, M. (2013, September 30). Sarah Gertrude Millin and the Professionalization of Envy. Weissman School of Arts and Sciences Brown Bag. New York, NY: Weismann College of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY.
Eatough, M. (2013, June 30). Greater Britonism and the South African Constitution. Joint Meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association, the British Association for Victorian Studies, and the Australasian Victorian Studies Association. Venice, Italy: North American Victorian Studies Association, the British Association for Victorian Studies, and the Australasian Victorian Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2013, March 31). Chaka, the New Africans, and Formalist History. African Literature Association Annual Meeting. Charleston, SC: African Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2012, April 30). Feeling Modern, Again: On J. M. Coetzee and Semiperipheral World-Systems. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Lecture Series. Nashville, TN: Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
Eatough, M. (2012, October 31). Colonial Constitutionalism and the Spirit of Capitalism. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2011, March 31). Shaw, Fabianism, and the Anglo-Irish Landlord. American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference. Madison, WI: American Conference for Irish Studies.
Eatough, M. (2011, November 30). Is There a Sociology of the Fin-de-Siècle Colonial Novel?. Performance and Play. Nashville, TN: North American Victorian Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2011, October 31). Modernism, Genre, Semiperiphery. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Buffalo, NY: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2011, October 31). The Sterling Area and South African Fiction. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Buffalo, NY: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2011, October 31). The Sterling Area and South African Fiction. The Structures of Innovation. Buffalo, NY: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2010, November 30). The Curious Case of Roy Campbell. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Victoria, Canada: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2010, April 30). Neoliberalism on the Periphery: The Paradoxes of South African Cosmopolitanism. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA: American Comparative Literature Association.
Eatough, M. (2009, March 31). Minimalist Cosmopolitanism: Reading Coetzee Transnationally. Navigating the Body. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia English Department.
Eatough, M. (2009, November 30). Joyce or Beckett? Locating Irish Cosmopolitics in a Global Frame. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada: Modernist Studies Association.
Eatough, M. (2009, February 28). Of Cosmopolitans and Modernists: Placing the Subject of The World Republic of Letters. Liminal Literature. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison English Department.
Eatough, M. (2009, February 28). Caught Between Identification and Completion: The Gendering of Union in Anglo-Irish Big House Fiction. The Desire for Representation/The Desire of Representation. New York, NY: SUNY-Stony Brook English Department.
Eatough, M. (2009, October 31). The Time That Remains: Organ Donation, Temporal Duration, and Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Conference. Knoxville, TN: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
Eatough, M. (2008, March 31). Encoding the Public. Marxist Reading Group Annual Conference. Gainesville, FL: Marxist Reading Group.
Eatough, M. (2008, November 30). Revisiting Cosmopolitanism: European Universalism, Colonial Transnationalism, and James Joyce’s Ulysses. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Nashville, TN: Modernist Studies Association.
Other Scholarly Works
Eatough, M., & Manase, I. (2022). (Ed.) African Futures. A Special Issue of *Literary Geographies*. 8(2),
Eatough, M., & Mitchell, W. J. (2006). Iconoclasm. Theories of Media Keyword Glossary.
Reviews
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). Time-Loop Environmentalism: A Review of Solvej Balle's On the Calcuation of Volume (Books I and II). Ancillary Review of Books.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). Yeats, Asia, and the Occult: A Review of Recent Scholarship. International Yeats Studies.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). A Review of Michael Lentz's Schattenfroh. Chicago Review. In Progress.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). A Review of Sarah Maria Griffin's Eat the Ones You Love. Ancillary Review of Books. In Progress.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). A Review of Alex Pheby's Waterblack. Strange Horizons. In Progress.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). A Krapp's Last Tape for the Era of Mass Surveillance: A Review of Mauro Javier Cardenas's American Abductions. Ancillary Review of Books.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). Anarcho-Fantastic Post-Exoticism: A Review of Antoine Volodine's Mevlido's Dreams. Ancillary Review of Books.
Eatough, M. L. (2025,July 9). A Sprawling, Encyclopedic Archeology of Cold War Thought: A Review of Miquel de Palol’s The Garden of Seven Twilights. Ancillary Review of Books.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). The Literatures of Irish America: On Joe Cleary's World-Systems Scholarship. Los Angeles Review of Books.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). The Novelist as Conceptual Artist: A Review of The Famous Magician by Cesar Aira. Ancillary Review of Books.
Eatough, M. (2017,April 1). Review of Thomas S. Davis, *The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life*. Modern Language Quarterly.
Eatough, M. (2017,April 1). Review of Susan Stanford Friedman, *Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time*. Modern Fiction Studies.
Eatough, M. (2016,April 1). Review of The Warwick Research Collective, *Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature*. Postcolonial Text.
Eatough, M. (2016,October 1). Review of Laura Barbarian Reináres, *Sex Trafficking in Post-Colonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bola-o*. James Joyce Literary Supplement.
Eatough, M. (2013,July 1). Accommodating Intimacy, Compromising Sex. Twentieth-Century Literature.
Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). A Review of Ian P. MacDonald and Kate Polak, eds., Science Fiction and the Historical Novel: Days of Future Pasts. In Progress.
| Title | Funding Agency Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Awarded Date | Total Funding | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Presses, Translation, and the New International Modernism | PSC CUNY 53 | 07/01/2022 | 06/30/2023 | 04/15/2022 | 4551 | Completed |
| Irish Fiction, Small Presses, and the World-System | PSC CUNY 52 | 07/01/2021 | 06/30/2023 | 04/15/2021 | 4530 | Completed |
| The Goethe-Institute and the Futurity of African Literature | PSC-CUNY 51 | 07/01/2020 | 12/31/2022 | 04/17/2020 | 4530 | Completed |
| The New Spirit of African Literature? Small Presses and the Rhetoric of Entrepreneurialism | PSC-CUNY 50 | 07/01/2019 | 06/30/2020 | 04/13/2019 | 4530 | Completed |
| Magical Realism in the Age of Intellectual Property | PSC-CUNY 49 | 07/01/2018 | 12/31/2019 | 04/15/2018 | 4530 | Completed |
| Magical Realism in the Age of Intellectual Property | Eugene Lang Fellowship | 06/01/2018 | 06/30/2019 | 03/29/2018 | 5387.5 | Completed |
| Keynesian Literary History: A Model for a Global Literary Studies | PSC-CUNY 46 | 07/01/2015 | 06/30/2016 | 04/17/2015 | 4470 | Completed |
| Long Waves of Modernity: The Affective History of the Anglophone Novel, 1880-2010 | PSC-CUNY 45 | 07/01/2014 | 06/30/2015 | 04/15/2014 | 3500 | Completed |
| Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award | African Literature Association | 2019 | |
| 2015 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize | Modern Fiction Studies | 2016 | Best essay published in the journal Modern Fiction Studies |
| Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, Shortlist | Modernist Studies Association | 2013 | Shortlisted for The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (Assistant Editor). |
| Thomas Daniel Young Award | Department of English, Vanderbilt University | 2012 | Honors excellence in teaching |
| Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award | College of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University | 2011 | |
| Robert Manson Myers Graduate Award | Department of English, Vanderbilt University | 2011 | Best dissertation prospectus |
| Rose Alley Press Award | Department of English, Vanderbilt University | 2010 | |
| School of Criticism and Theory | Cornell University | 2009 | |
| John M. Aden Award | Department of English, Vanderbilt University | 2009 | Best graduate paper. Awarded for “Minimalist Cosmopolitanism: Reading Beckett and Coetzee Transnationally." |
| Phi Beta Kappa | Phi Beta Kappa, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chapter | 2004 |
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Studies Minor Committee | Committee Chair | Present | |
| Faculty Senate Representative | Committee Member | Present | |
| Global Studies Minor Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| School Academic Review Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Governance Review Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| English Department Executive Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Ad Hoc Committee on Department Bylaws | Committee Member | Present | |
| Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Curriculum Committee | Committee Chair | 6/30/2023 | |
| English Department Executive Committee | Committee Member | 6/30/2023 | |
| Weissman Undergraduate Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | 6/30/2023 | |
| Committee on Committees | Committee Member | 5/31/2022 | |
| Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | 6/30/2019 | |
| Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching Observation Form | Committee Member | 5/31/2019 | |
| Representative to the Zicklin School | Attendee, Meeting | 8/31/2016 | |
| School of Public Affairs Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | 6/30/2016 | |
| Composition Committee | Committee Member | 6/30/2016 | |
| Globalization's Moods | Committee Chair | 12/31/2014 | |
| The Function of Class Discussion at the Present Time (Staff Development Workshop) | Workshop Co-Leader (with Prof. Frank Cioffi) | 4/24/2014 |
Professional
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African Identities | Reviewer, Journal Article | 6/1/2019 | Present | |||
| Studies in the Novel | Reviewer, Journal Article | 3/1/2019 | Present | |||
| Grant Review for The Welcome Trust/Medical Humanities Fellowship | Grant Proposal Reviewer, External | London | United Kingdom | Present | International | |
| Steering Committee for MSA Brooklyn 2020 [Canceled due to COVID] | Committee Member | New York | United States | Present | National | |
| Modernist Studies Association | Officer, Treasurer | Pennsylvania | United States | Present | National | |
| Manuscript Reviewer | Reviewer | New York | United States | 8/31/2013 | Present | National |
| NANO: New American Notes Online | Editorial Board | New York | United States | 5/1/2015 | Present | National |
| Modern Fiction Studies | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/1/2024 | Present | National | ||
| Modernist Studies Association | Officer, Treasurer | 10/30/2022 | Present | National | ||
| SUNY Press | Reviewer, Book | 7/1/2022 | Present | National | ||
| LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory | Reviewer, Journal Article | 3/14/2013 | Present | |||
| The Welcome Trust/Medical Humanities Fellowship | Reviewer, Grant Proposal | 9/11/2013 | Present | |||
| NANO: New American Notes Online | Editorial Review Board Member | New York | 5/1/2015 | Present | ||
| Bloomsbury Press | Reviewer, Book | 9/1/2015 | Present | |||
| Organizing Committee 2020 Modernist Studies Association Conference | Committee Member | 1/1/2017 | Present | National | ||
| Safundi | Reviewer, Journal Article | 8/1/2018 | Present | |||
| Literature and Medicine | Reviewer, Journal Article | 8/1/2018 | Present | |||
| Peter Lang Oxford | Reviewer, Book | 11/1/2018 | Present | |||
| CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture | Reviewer, Journal Article | 12/1/2018 | Present | |||
| American Comparative Literature Association | Seminar Leader | 3/15/2024 | 3/17/2024 | National | ||
| Steering Committee for MSA Brooklyn 2023 | Committee Member | New York | United States | 1/1/2022 | 10/29/2023 | National |
| Crossing Borders: Studies in Global Literature and Culture (book series, Peter Lang US) | Editor, Book | 9/1/2014 | 9/30/2016 | |||
| Modernist Studies Association | Seminar Leader | Massachusetts | United States | 11/30/2015 | ||
| NAVSA Annual Conference | Session Chair | Tennessee | United States | 11/30/2011 |