Matthew Scully focuses on multiethnic American literature, literary theory, film, and visual art. His book project, “Democratic Anarchy: Figures of Equality in United States Literature and Politics,” engages the anxious intersections of politics and aesthetics to develop a new theory of democratic equality in 20th- and 21st-century American literature and culture.
About
- Department Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies
- Department Writing Literature & Publishing
- Since 2015
Education
B.A., McGill University
M.A., Tufts University
Ph.D., Tufts University
M.A., Tufts University
Ph.D., Tufts University
Publications
“The Triple Antagonist of the Police, Policing, and Policy"
2020
CounterPunch (31 July 2020). https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/31/the-triple-antagonist-of-the-police-policing-and-policy/#gsc.tab=0
Review of Audrey Wasser’s The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
2019
SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, 48.1 (2019): 113-117
“The Power of the People,” Review of Scott Henkel’s Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
2018
sx salon: a small axe literary platform 29 (October 2018)
“Plasticity at the Violet Hour: Tiresias, The Waste Land, and Poetic Form”
2018
JML: Journal of Modern Literature 41.3 (Spring 2018): 166-182.
Review of Philip Lorenz’s Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama
2014
MLN (Modern Language Notes) 129.5 (December 2014): 1238-1240.
“Musical Literature: Bridging the Gap between High and Low Art,” Review of T. Austin Graham’s The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, & the Value of Popular Culture
2013
Twentieth-Century Literature 59.3 (Fall 2013): 504-512.
