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

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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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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.

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.