Matthew Sutton
Ph.D. | Southern Studies, American Literature
Email: [[e|mdsutt]]Website: {{http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/mdsutt/home}}
Background
Education
B.A., English, University of Kentucky
M.A., English, University of Kentucky
Courses Taught
LCST 201: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies - Words and Music
AMST 350: Autobiographical America
AMST 470: Storyville: Southern Musicians' Autobiographies
Publications
“Bitter Crop: The Aftermath of Lady Sings the Blues.” A/B: Auto/Biography Studies (Special Issue on African American Autobiography) Forthcoming, 2011.
“Crossing Over: The Mississippi River and the Diffusion of Jazz.” Border States: Journal of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association 18 Forthcoming, 2011.
“Step Right Up: Spectacle and Showmanship in Pudd’nhead Wilson and The Hamlet.” Faulkner and Twain, ed. Robert W. Hamblin and Melanie Speight (Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press/Center for Faulkner Studies, 2009): 117-133.
“Back to the Country: Coal Miner’s Daughter Revisited.” Border States: Journal of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association 17 (2009): 1-12.
“Little America: R.E.M., Howard Finster, and the Southern ‘Outsider Art’ Aesthetic.” Studies in Popular Culture. 30.2 (Spring 2008): 1-20.
Recent Conference Presentations:
"Trash on the Cutting-Room Floor: Hollywood vs. Snopesism." Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, University of Mississippi, 2010
"Crossing Over: The Mississippi River and the Diffusion of Jazz." Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association Meeting, Murray, KY, 2010
“The Old Waifs’ Tale: Louis Armstrong and the Orphan Narrative.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2010
“Seeds of Glory: The Ecocritical Stance of Guthrie’s Bound for Glory.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, 2010
“Colonial-a-Go-Go; Or, Williamsburg Hosts a Hootenanny.” Southern American Studies Association Meeting, Fairfax, VA, 2009
"Green Pastures of Plenty: Ecocriticism and Citizenship in Bound for Glory." American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 2008
"Percy's Song: Bob Dylan's Chronicles Meets The Moviegoer." Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, Williamsburg, VA, 2008
“Back to the Country: Coal Miner’s Daughter Revisited.” Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association Meeting, Shaker Village, KY, 2007
“What’s Luck Got to Do With It?: Narrating the ‘Accidental Career.’” Southern American Studies Association Meeting, University of Mississippi, 2007
“The Pequod and the Plantation: An Intertextual Reading of Moby-Dick.” “Why Melville Matters Now” Symposium, Albany, NY, 2006
“Step Right Up: Spectacle and Showmanship in Pudd’nhead Wilson and The Hamlet.” Faulkner-Twain Conference, Center for Faulkner Studies, Cape Girardeau, MO, 2006
“Lines and Spaces: Re-Mapping the South in Southern Musicians’ Autobiographies.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2005
“’Father Said That’: The Destructive Legacy in Hard Times and The Sound and the Fury.” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, University of Mississippi, 2005
Research Interests
Grants, Fellowships and Honors
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2011
BMI Foundation/ Woody Guthrie Foundation Fellowship, 2009
James Whatley Award, Popular Culture Association of the South, 2008