Contact Information

Office: 4160 JFSB

Phone: 422-5295

E-mail: kristin_matthews@byu.edu

Office Hours:
Student Consultation MW 3-4
Graduate Advisement T 3:30-5

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. While at the UW, she taught a range of courses from freshman composition to American literature surveys and was awarded the UW Madison Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award.

She is originally from Wisconsin, where she has spent much time paddling in the many Midwestern lakes. Her interests include kayaking, biking, singing, playing piano, and watching sport (Boston Red Sox and Green Bay Packers, in particular).

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