MATTHEW M. ROBERSON
Department of English Language and Literature
Anspach Hall 207
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
989.774.2585
matthew.roberson@cmich.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1997
M.A. English Pennsylvania State University 1992
B.A. English State University of New York at Binghamton 1989
DISSERTATION:
“Moinous Li(v)es,” Director Campbell Tatham
A study of novelists Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman, this dissertation situates
postmodern American prose in the anti-foundational, counter-cultural contexts of the 1960s and 1970s.
It also examines Paula Gunn Allen and Gerald Vizenor, tracing a relationship between postmodernism
and contemporary Native American trickster literature.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Impotent: On Medication and Family, a novel. Tallahassee/Tuscaloosa: FC2, 2009 (forthcoming).
Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick, Editor. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003.
1998.6, a novel. Normal/Tallahassee: FC2, 2002.
“Teaching the Hypertext Novel.” Academic Exchange Quarterly: 9:3 (Fall 2005): 151-156.
“Introduction.” Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003.
1-12.
“Federman’s Supreme Pla(y)giarism: Take It or Leave It.” New Novel Review 5:1 (Fall 1998): 37-61.
“List of Answers” and “Paredros.” Federman, A to X-X-X-X: A Recyclopedic Narrative. Eds.
Larry McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, and Doug Rice. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1998. 176-177, 266-268.
“Ronald Sukenick’s Narratypography.” Electronic Book Review 7:2 (Summer 1998):
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr7/7roberson/7rober.htm.
“In Progress.” Journal of Experimental Fiction 31 (Summer 2007): 218-235.
“With the Sisters.” Fiction International 39 (Winter 2006): 22-26.
“Possible Side Effects.” Clackamas Literary Review X (Spring 2006): 4-8. Winner of the
“ORTHO TRI-CYCLEN® LO.” Golden Handcuffs Review 1:6 (Winter/Spring 2005-06): 183-192.
“Paxil (Withdrawal).” Diagram 5.2 (Spring 2005): < http://thediagram.com/5_2/roberson.html>.
“Paxil.3.” Rhapsoidia 7 (Winter 2005): 20-21.
“Paxil.1” and “Viagra.” Black Ice Online (Winter 2004)
<http://www.altx.com/profiles/archives/2004/roberson/index.htm>.
"Praxis." Small Spiral Notebook 3:2 (Autumn 2004): <http://smallspiralnotebook.com>.
"Paxil.2." Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review 10:2 (Summer/Fall 2004): 175-179.
Reprinted excerpt from 1998.6, a novel. The Loop (2004): <http://www.clc.wvu.edu/loop/#>.
Excerpts from 1998.6, a novel. Black Ice Online (Fall 1998): <http://www.altx.com>.
"Femme Fatale." The Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine 2:1 (Summer 1997): 36-45.
"Raised Hands." The Nightshade Reader. Troy, Maine: Nightshade Press, 1995. 95-103.
“Around (and Around) Again: A Review of Raymond Federman’s Take It or Leave It and The
Twofold Vibration.” American Book Review 19:6 (July/August 1999): 3-6.
“Tuned In: Review of Larry McCaffery’s Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative
American Authors.” Postmodern Culture 8.1 (September 1997): http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/.
Reviews
Review of Last Fall, by Ronald Sukenick. Electronic Book Review. Forthcoming.
Review of Terror-Dot-Gov, by Harold Jaffe. Rain Taxi 11:1 (Spring 2006): 50.
Review of Utopia Limited, by Marianne DeKoven. ESF 2:1 (Spring 2005):
< http://www.bsu.edu/web/esf/forumreviews.htm>.
Review of VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Rain Taxi 8:3 (Fall 2003): 21.
“Me LA Droogies,” a review of Common Criminals. American Book Review. 24:6 (Sept/Oct 2003): 16.
Review of Mosaic Man, by Ronald Sukenick. The Cream City Review 22:2 (Spring 2000): 293.
Review of Damascus, by Richard Beard. The Review of Contemporary Fiction 19:1 (Spring
1999): 187.
Review of The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald. The Review of Contemporary Fiction 18:3
(Fall 1998): 241-242.
Review of Echoes, by Dennis Barone. The Review of Contemporary Fiction 18:2 (Summer
1998): 247.
Review of Guide, by Dennis Cooper. The Review of Contemporary Fiction 18:1 (Spring 1998): 230.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from Impotent (SSML, May 2007)
“The Concrete Art of Fiction” (Literature and Visual Arts Panel at the
National Popular & American Cultures Association Conference, April 2007)
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from Impotent (&NOW: A Festival of Innovative Writing and Art, April 2006)
“I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Hal Jaffe and Documentary Fiction”
(Panel Organizer, Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, November 2005)
“Teaching the Hypertext Novel to Creative Writing Students”
(Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations Conference, February 2005)
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from Impotent (SSML, May 2004)
“Not the Real Story” (Fiction by Collage Panel at AWP Conference, March 2004)
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from 1998.6. (A Festival of Postmodern Piracy, Kent State
University-Salem, April 1999)
Discussant, Metafiction Panel (Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1997)
Fiction Reading (Cedarburg Gallery Walk’s Evening of Poetry and Fiction, October 1997)
"Collaboration as Pla(y)giarism: Raymond Federman's Literary Thefts”
(Collaboration/Elaboration Panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1996)
"Searching for Unity of Self: Kristjana Gunnars's The Prowler" (UWM Literary Studies
Symposium Series, Fall 1995)
Fiction Readings (UWM Faculty and Graduate Student Reading Series, 1994 & 1995)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
First Prize, Clackamas Literary Review Willamette Award in Fiction (2005)
Central Michigan University College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences Summer
Faculty Scholar (2005)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Fellowship (1995-1996)
First Prize, The Milwaukee Fiction Award (1994)
Honorable Mention, The Milwaukee Fiction Award (1993)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Associate Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Central Michigan University
2006-present
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Central Michigan University
2003-2006
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of English and Philosophy
State University of West Georgia
2002-2003
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
1999-2001
Lecturer
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1996-1999
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1992-1995
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of English
Pennsylvania State University
1990-1992
COURSES TAUGHT:
Central Michigan University
English 234: Introduction to Literary Analysis
English 294: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 391: Creative Writing, Fiction
English 491: Senior Fiction Workshop
English 535: History of Literary Theory
English 622: Seminar in Contemporary American Fiction
English 691: Graduate Fiction Workshop
State University of West Georgia
English 1101: Freshman Composition I
English 4/5205: Technical/Professional Writing
Brenau University
EH 102: Literature and Composition
Georgia Institute of Technology
LCC 1101: Introduction to Cultural Studies (Freshman Composition I)
LCC 1102: Cultural Studies of Science and Technology (Freshman Composition II)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
English 101: Introduction to College Writing (first term freshman composition)
English 102: Writing and Critical Thinking (second term freshman composition)
English 201: Strategies for Academic Writing (sophomore composition)
English 215: The Literary Imagination: Introduction to Studying Literature
English 224: American Writers: The Twentieth Century
English 233: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 309: American Writers: 1940ãPresent
Pennsylvania State University
English 15: Introduction to College Writing (first term freshman composition)
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
English Department Personnel Committee (2007-present)
English Department Conferences Committee (2006-present)
Coordinator, CMU Creative Writing Concentration (2005-present)
CMU Degrees, Admissions, Standards, and Honors Committee (2005-present)
Secretary (fall 2007)
English Department Policy Committee (2005-2007)
Faculty Advisor, The CMU Fiction Collective (2004-present)
English Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2004-2006)
Member, ESF Editorial Board (2004-present)
English Department Conferences Committee (2003-2004)
Faculty Advisor, Temenos (2003-present)
Member, FC2 Editorial Board (2003-2006)
Faculty Advisor, Eclectic: Undergraduate Poetry and Fiction (2002-2003)
Co-Editor, Updrafts: A Journal of Freshman Writing (2002-2003)
Advisor, Context (1999-present)
UWM English Department Literary Studies Advisory Committee (1995-1996)
Milwaukee Graduate Assistant Association Grievance Committee (1994-1995)
UWM English Department Grievance Committee (1993-1994)
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
Writer/Editor, Crane MetaMarketing (2001-2002)
Web-Page Designer, Cream City Review (1997-1998)
Editor-in-Chief, Cream City Review (1995-1996)
Fiction Editor, Cream City Review (1994-1995)
Assistant Fiction Editor, Cream City Review (1993-1994)