Contact Information

Office: 4103 JFSB

Phone: 422-1664

Email: matthew_wickman@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Spring 2012:

Not teaching Spring 2012


Student Consultations:
By appointment

Biography: Matthew Wickman came to BYU after earning his PhD at UCLA in 2000. His interests include Scottish literary studies, eighteenth-century British literature, literary theory, and intellectual history.

He is the author of the book The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) as well as articles in The Yale Journal of Criticism, Scottish Studies Review, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, PMLA, ELH, and other venues.

He is currently at work on two book-length projects, one on the interface between poetry, space, and mathematics in the Enlightenment, and the other investigating the relationship between Scottish crime fiction and the work and legacy of Martin Heidegger.

An international correspondent for the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, he also serves on the referee board of College Literature and the international advisory board of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. In 2007 he was named one of BYU's College Professors of Humanities, and in 2009-10 he will begin serving a dual appointment between BYU and the English Department at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, where he will hold the position of Senior Lecturer of Scottish Literature.

Degrees: PhD, UCLA, 2000

Interests: Scottish literature, literary theory, intellectual history, eighteenth-century British literature, romanticism, modernism, interdisciplinary literary studies

18C, Theory, Scottish