Contact Information

Office: 4103 JFSB

Phone: 422-1664

E-mail: matthew_wickman@byu.edu

Office Hours:
TH 3:00-5:00 PM
and by appointment

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. In 2007 he was named one of BYU's College Professors of Humanities.

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