Contact Information

Office: 4160 JFSB

Phone: 422-5295

Email: kristin_matthews@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Winter 2012:

ENGL 363
MWF 12:00-1:00
B103 JFSB

AmSt 490R
W 1:00-2:00
4186 JFSB

AmSt 399R
TBA



Student Consultations:

English Office Hours
M 9:00-11:00

AmSt Advising
W 9:00-11:00

Biography: Kristin L. Matthews teaches courses in American Literature. She specializes in twentieth-century literature and culture, particularly Cold War fiction and film. Her sub-specialty is 20th-century African-American literature. She employs an American Studies methodology in her research and teaching, putting literature into conversation with a range of political, historical, sociological, and popular texts in order to best examine American letters and life.

Professor Matthews received her BA in English from Brigham Young University in 1995 and her Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004.

Degrees: PhD, Wisconsin, 2004

Interests: 20C American Literature, African American Literature, American Studies