Matthew Augustine
Lecturer
School of English
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
Matthew Augustine received his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MA and PhD from Washington University in St Louis. Prior to his appointment at St Andrews, Matthew taught literature in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.
Research Interest
Dr Augustine lectures on English literature from the early modern period to the early eighteenth century. He is a student of the 'politics of discourse', with further interests in early modern print culture, reception history, and poetics, among other things. He has written a number of articles and book chapters on such figures as John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Lord Rochester, and Jonathan Swift, and he is with Steven Zwicker the editor of Lord Rochester in the Restoration World (Cambridge, 2015). He is now completing his first monograph, Aesthetics of Contingency: Writing, Politics, and Culture in England, 1639-1689, which will be published by Manchester University Press. With Christopher D’Addario, he is also editing a new book of essays called Remapping Seventeenth-Century Literature: Histories, Contexts, Networks.
