About Me:

Hello! My name is Corinne Matthews, and I am a postdoctoral associate in the University Writing Program at the University of Florida. I previously completed a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in children's and young adult literature at UF in August 2023. My research interests include: fantasy and speculative fiction; gender and sexuality studies; genre studies; and comics and graphic novels.

 

My book project, stemming from doctoral research, examines how consent functions in young adult fantasy and speculative fiction both as it relates to sex and more broadly. I'm also interested in depictions of Eastern Europe in Western popular culture, something I became interested in during the year I spent in Poland on a Fulbright grant. You can find some of my published work in journals like The Lion and the Unicorn, the South Central Review, and The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. 

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My research frequently informs my teaching, and I've taught as the instructor of record both as a graduate student and as a postdoc. I enjoy designing classes that put material in social and cultural contexts that students may not have considered before, especially in ways that expand how they think about genre and form. Drawing on my M.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering that I earned in 2014, I am also a frequent teacher of "Professional Communication for Engineering." 

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I'm invested in the public humanities, and as part of that effort, I co-founded and co-host the pop culture podcast Sex. Love. Literature., which takes a look at why--and how--the "sex stuff" in media matters. You can find episodes wherever you get your podcasts. 

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When not researching or teaching, I like to do yoga, bike the Hawthorne Trail, and take pictures of the gators of Gainesville, Florida.