Title: Graduate Student

Program: PhD
Department: English

Office: 4-50 Buttrick
Email: matthew.e.duques@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• B.A. in English, Haverford College
• M.A. in Cultural Studies, Dartmouth College

Research Area

• Early American- Lexicons, Primers, Textbooks, Travel Guides, Missionary Tracts, Poetry, Early Am. Novels and Autobiographies
• Contemporary Native American Literature

Current Positions

• Graduate Student
• Literacy Tutor- Cohn Adult School

Previous Positions

• The Hotchkiss School English Instructor 05-07
• T.A., American Drama, Dartmouth College 05
• English 2-3 Writing T.A. Dartmouth College 04-05
• Americorp Volunteer 02-04

Professional Societies

• SEA-Society for Early Americanists

Professional Honors

• University Fellowship, Vanderbilt

Publications

• "Words Without Bodies, Bodies Without Words: Language Poetry's Use of Indigenous Identities." Across Borders, Lebanon College Press, 2005.
• "Revisiting the Regenerative in Simon Ortiz" in SAIL, Studies in American Indian Literature, University of Nebraska Press, Summer '04.