Matthew Poland (he/him/his)

Part-time Lecturer
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Contact Information

PDL B-36
Office Hours
MW 12:30-1:30

Biography

Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 2022
M.S., Library and Information Science, UNC Chapel Hill, 2013
M.A., English Literary Studies, University of York, 2009
Curriculum Vitae (246.37 KB)
I teach and write about the world history of nineteenth-century British literature (especially George Eliot), media and archival history, and the cultural legacies of settler colonialism. With Lars Atkin (Kent), I recently co-edited a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review about "Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies." I am currently (2025) a Maddock Research Fellow at Marsh's Library in Dublin, and was recently a visiting scholar at the University of Galway. My chapter, "The Making of Middlemarch," is forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to George Eliot. I'm also a contributing editor to At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. My recent publications include "Middlemarch in Melbourne" (George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies 73.2 (Fall 2021)) and "Undisciplining through Contemporary Novels: Re Jane, Parasite, Jane Eyre" (Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom). My dissertation, "The Global Migrations of George Eliot and Charles Dickens: Books, Newspapers, Archives," won the UW Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2022 and the UW English Department Heilman Dissertation Prize.
Awards
Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Washington Graduate School, Spring 2022
Simpson Center for the Humanities Society of Scholars 2021
Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship 2020
Míċeál F. Vaughan Scholarship 2018
Textual Studies Graduate Research Award 2017
MLQ Travel and Research Funding 2016

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Professional Affiliations
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies; Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
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