Matthew Biberman writer of nonfiction (memoir), fiction and literary theory

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Author Biography

Currently a professor of English at the University of Louisville, I teach and publish on a wide range of literature, most often British Literature from Shakespeare to the Romantics along with contemporary Theory.
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Influences

As a theorist, my biggest influences are my teachers, Stanley Fish and Fred Jameson. As a writer of creative nonfiction, I would name Norman McLean, Robert Pirsig, Ernest Hemingway and Herman Melville.

Favorite Books

Today's desert island list: Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantics--esp Keats and Coleridge, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Hart Crane, Berryman, Lowell, Tom Sleigh. Theorists: Jameson's Political Unconscious, Lacan's Ecrits, Stanley Fish's essays, all Freud, Marx's Grundrisse, Barthes, Foucault, Zizek, Zupancic. Novelists: Flaubert's Sentimental Education, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Fitzgerald's Stories and The Crack Up, Bellow's Humboldt's Gift, Singer's Enemies: A Love Story, Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Roth's The Ghostwriter.

Favorite Authors

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What I'm Reading

Pericles, Charles Nicholl's The Lodger Shakespeare, Alenka Zupancic's Odd One In

Web Links

Shakespeare After 9/11: MLA RADIO PROGRAM

by Matthew Biberman

October 17, 2009, 1:46 pm

With my co-editor Julia Lupton, I put together a special issue of Shakespeare Yearbook entitled "Shakespeare After 9/11" that should be out soon. The Modern Language Association recently aired a show as part of their "What's the Word series" on how the events of September 11th changed the way we read Shakespeare's plays about politics and leadership. Three contributors to our collection were interviewed. On the program, Scott Maisano discusses Julius Caesar; Jonathan Gil Harris speaks about Macbeth; and Scott Newstok reflects on Henry Vin the light of the events of September 11th.. To listen click here,

http://www.prx.org/pieces/38336-what-s-the-word-shakespeare-after-9-11