Part-time Lecturer
Contact Information
PDL B-36
Office Hours
Not teaching at UW in Winter 2026 -- email to meet
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
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I teach and write about global nineteenth-century British literature (especially George Eliot), media and archival history, and the cultural legacies of settler colonialism. My essay, "Eliot at Yale," won the NAVSA Donald Gray Prize for best essay in Victorian studies in 2024. With Lars Atkin (Kent), I co-edited a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review about "Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies." 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. Other recent publications include "Middlemarch in Melbourne" and "Undisciplining through Contemporary Novels: Re Jane, Parasite, Jane Eyre." My dissertation 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
Research
Selected Research
- “Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies.” Special issue, co-edited by Matt Poland and Lars Atkin. Victorian Periodicals Review 56.4 (Winter 2023).
- Poland, Matthew. The Global Migrations of George Eliot and Charles Dickens: Books, Newspapers, Archives. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.Adviser: Charles LaPorte
- “Middlemarch in Melbourne.” Special Issue, Middlemarch at 150, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies 73.2 (Fall 2021), 134-141. https://doi.org/10.5325/georelioghlstud.73.2.0134.
- Matthew Poland. Review of Serial Forms, by Clare Pettitt. Review 19 March 2021.
- Matthew Poland, “Commemorative Print: Serialized Monuments during the Shakespeare Tercentenary Debates,” Journal of Victorian Culture 26.1 (April 2021), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaa027.
- Bassett, Troy J, ed.. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. 31 December 2019. Victorian Research Web.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Summer 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Winter 2022
Resources & Related Links
Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies; Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada