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Josh Matthews teaches early American literature, science fiction, World Literature 1, Intro to Film as Art, Business and Technical Writing, and CORE Composition and Literature classes..
He also co-leads a class on Dante and the Italian Renaissance, which includes a nine-day trip to Florence, Italy.
He has published on the reception of Dante and the Divine Comedy in nineteenth-century America, and on American readings of the Divine Comedy during the Civil War.
He edits the book reviews for , °¼Í¹ÊÓƵ's journal of reformed studies. He has also helped edit the and the . He co-leads the annual Great Texts Seminar for °¼Í¹ÊÓƵFaculty every spring.
Courses Taught
- American Literature 1 (ENG 201)
- Science Fiction (ENG 223)
- Dante and the Italian Renaissance (CORE 289/HIST 329)
- Intro to Film (CORE 160)
- Philip K. Dick (ENG 343)
- Business and Technical Writing (ENG 305)
- Responding to Literature (CORE 180)
- Rhetoric and the Christian Scholar (KSP 151 -- Honors)
- English Composition (CORE 120)
Institutional History
- Ph.D., English, University of Iowa (2012)
- M.A., English, Kent State University (2005)
- B.A., English, Indiana University (2003)
Academic Publications
- "," Christian Scholar's Review 48 (Summer 2019)
- "," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 32 (Summer/Fall 2014)
- "" (dissertation, 2012)
- "", J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists I (Fall 2013).
- "", Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 12 (October 2010).