Title: Graduate Student

Program: PhD
Department: English

Office: 
Email: matthew.eatough@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• B.A. with Comprehensive Honors, English and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago

Research Area

• Postcolonial Literature and Theory (esp. South Africa and Ireland)
• British and Irish Modernism
• World-Systems Theory
• Affect Theory
• Globalization, Transnationalism, and Cosmopolitanism

Current Research

• Failed Encounter: Devolution and National Sentiment in Olive Schreiner and Bernard Shaw
• Sterling Fictions: Literary Internationalism, Professionalism, and the South African Novel Between the Wars

Current Positions

• Graduate Student Council Representative (2010-)
• Co-Facilitator, Interrogating Modernism Reading Group (2009-)

Previous Positions

• Co-Facilitator, Postcolonial Theory and Its Discontents Reading Group (2009-10)
• Secretary, English Graduate Student Association (2009-10)
• Technology Coordinator, English Graduate Student Association (2008-9)

Professional Societies

• Modernist Studies Association
• American Comparative Literature Association
• Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

Professional Honors

• Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (2011)
• Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship (2011-12)
• Robert Manson Myers Award (2011)
• Dissertation Enhancement Grant (2010)
• Martha Ingram Fellowship, Vanderbilt University (2010-2011)
• Rose Alley Press Award (2010)
• Provost’s Research Grant, Z. Smith Reynold’s Library, Wake Forest University (2010-11)
• Summer Research Award, Vanderbilt University (2010)
• John M. Aden Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Writing (2009)
• University Fellowship, Vanderbilt (2007-)
• Mary Brabyn Wackman English Prize (2005)
• Senior Thesis Grant (2004-5)
• Phi Beta Kappa (2004)
• Abraham S. Burack Travel Scholarship (2003)

Publications

• “The Time That Remains: Organ Donation, Temporal Duration, and Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s *Never Let Me Go*.” *Literature and Medicine* 29.1 (Spring 2011)
• "Elizabeth Bowen's *Bowen's Court* and the Anglo-Irish World-System." *Modern Language Quarterly* 73.1 (forthcoming March 2012)