Matthew Poland (he/him/his)

Part-time Lecturer
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PDL B-36
Office Hours
TuTh 9-11am

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 (166.96 KB)
I write and teach about the global circulation of Victorian literature (especially George Eliot) and the archival history of English studies. With Lars Atkin (Kent), I recently co-edited a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review about "Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies." 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)), "Undisciplining through Contemporary Novels: Re Jane, Parasite, Jane Eyre" (forthcoming from Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom), and "Uncovering the Contingencies of Archives" (Journal of Victorian Culture Online (July 2021)). 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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