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Matthew Levay
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Matthew Levay
Candidate statement
Matthew Levay
Associate Professor of English, Idaho State University
MSA Chicago (2005) was my first conference, and the organization has been my intellectual home ever since. Given my position at a rural, regional public university, I know how vital the annual conference is for fostering community in challenging and isolating times. I would be honored to serve as the Vice Program Chair, and to help make the conference as inclusive, accessible, safe, and invigorating an experience as it can be, particularly for scholars from underrepresented groups.
In recent years I’ve worked to shepherd modernist scholarship toward publication; I am Co-Editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and I sit on the PMLA Advisory Committee. I am also committed to supporting graduate students, both locally (as my department’s DGS, I host a virtual roundtable series on professionalization and access-oriented institutions) and beyond (I led a workshop on “Reimagining the Dissertation” at the MLA Virtual Summit on the Future of Doctoral Education).
My research centers on modernism and popular forms (genre fiction, comics, periodicals), and I am committed to an annual conference that is: fundamentally interdisciplinary; deeply engaged with scholarship on race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability; and dedicated to access and representation for modernists in diverse positions across the globe.
Website
matthewlevay.com
Representative Publications
“Little Tommy Lost and the Anachronistic Comic,” in Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture, ed. Jonathan Najarian (University Press of Mississippi, scheduled for publication in January 2024)
“Modernism in Comics,” essay cluster edited for Modernism/modernity Print Plus (scheduled for publication in Summer/Fall 2023)
Violent Minds: Modernism and the Criminal (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
“Modernism’s Opposite: John Galsworthy and the Novel Series,” Modernism/modernity 26.3 (September 2019): 543-562
Associate Professor of English, Idaho State University
MSA Chicago (2005) was my first conference, and the organization has been my intellectual home ever since. Given my position at a rural, regional public university, I know how vital the annual conference is for fostering community in challenging and isolating times. I would be honored to serve as the Vice Program Chair, and to help make the conference as inclusive, accessible, safe, and invigorating an experience as it can be, particularly for scholars from underrepresented groups.
In recent years I’ve worked to shepherd modernist scholarship toward publication; I am Co-Editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and I sit on the PMLA Advisory Committee. I am also committed to supporting graduate students, both locally (as my department’s DGS, I host a virtual roundtable series on professionalization and access-oriented institutions) and beyond (I led a workshop on “Reimagining the Dissertation” at the MLA Virtual Summit on the Future of Doctoral Education).
My research centers on modernism and popular forms (genre fiction, comics, periodicals), and I am committed to an annual conference that is: fundamentally interdisciplinary; deeply engaged with scholarship on race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability; and dedicated to access and representation for modernists in diverse positions across the globe.
Website
matthewlevay.com
Representative Publications
“Little Tommy Lost and the Anachronistic Comic,” in Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture, ed. Jonathan Najarian (University Press of Mississippi, scheduled for publication in January 2024)
“Modernism in Comics,” essay cluster edited for Modernism/modernity Print Plus (scheduled for publication in Summer/Fall 2023)
Violent Minds: Modernism and the Criminal (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
“Modernism’s Opposite: John Galsworthy and the Novel Series,” Modernism/modernity 26.3 (September 2019): 543-562
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