Email

pdmathews@um.edu.mo

Tel

(853) 8822 8995

Office

E21-4080

Consultation Hours

Wednesday 6-7pm;

Thursday 2-3pm

Peter D. Mathews

Introduction

Peter D. Mathews was appointed as Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau in 2024. After completing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Monash University in 2002, he worked for nearly a decade as an academic in the United States before moving to Korea in 2010.

Education

Ph.D., Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, Monash University, 2002

B.A. (Hons), Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, Monash University, 1997

Research Interests

My first area of research is contemporary British fiction, with a particular interest in novels that engage with the traditions, devices, and themes that emerged with the rise of the English novel in the eighteenth century. My second area is Australian fiction, especially writers who approach literature from a more international and cross-cultural perspective. My third area is literary and critical theory, with a particular interest in French thought. Inquiries about postgraduate supervision in these areas are most welcome.

Courses Regularly Taught

ENGL7024: Critical Reading

ENGL3001: 20th Century and Contemporary Literature in English I

ENGL3003: 20th Century and Contemporary Literature in English II

American Association of Australian Literary Studies (AAALS)

Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)

British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS)

English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)

European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS)

European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA)

Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)

Korean Society of East-West Comparative Literature

Paul Auster Society

Philip Roth Society

Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines (SEAC)

Books

Mathews, Peter D. From Poet to Novelist: The Orphic Journey of John A. Scott. Amherst NY: Cambria Press, 2022. (ISBN 978-1621966494)

Mathews, Peter D. English Magic and Imperial Madness: The Anti-Colonial Politics of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2021. (ISBN 978-1476686271)

Mathews, Peter D. Lacan the Charlatan. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (ISBN 978-3030452032)

Journal Articles

Mathews, Peter D. “Losing the Power to Say ‘I’: Problems of Perspective in the Fiction of Daniel Davis Wood” Journal of Australian Studies 48.1 (2024): 106-120.

Mathews, Peter D. “On Losing One’s Way: Sophie Cunningham and the Geography of Desire” Overland 252 (2023): 3-13.

Mathews, Peter D. “The Pleasures of Unpleasure: Jacques Lacan and the Atheism Beyond the ‘Death of God’” Filozofski Vestnik 43.3 (2022): 181-201.

Mathews, Peter D. “The Monstrosities of Modernity: Baudelaire’s Legacy in Alex Landragin’s Crossings” Westerly 67.2 (2022): 96-108.

Mathews, Peter D. “The Moral Economy of Sadie Jones’s The Snakes” English Studies 103.6 (2022): 940-960.

Mathews, Peter D. “The Peace Offering: Concluding Steven Carroll’s Eliot Quartet” Westerly 67.1 (2022): 119-130.

Mathews, Peter D. “A.S. Byatt’s ‘On the Day That E.M. Forster Died’ and the Ambivalence of Connection” Journal of the Short Story in English 76 (2021): 203-220.

Mathews, Peter D. “The Symbolism of Clothing: The Naked Truth About Jacques Lacan” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 23.1 (2021) <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol23/iss4/8>

Mathews, Peter D. “Hacking the Society of Control: The Fiction of Hari Kunzru” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 62.5 (2021): 620-630.

Mathews, Peter D. and Minjung Park. “Prophetic Time and the End of Capitalism in Iain Pears’s Stone’s Fall” English Studies 102.1 (2021): 67-84.

Mathews, Peter D. “The Scrambled Script: Contingency and Necessity in Iris Murdoch’s The Green Knight” Études britanniques contemporaines 59 (2020) <https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.9793> Reprinted in Miles Leeson and Frances White, eds. Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023: 131-145.

Mathews, Peter D. “Brian Castro – Mon Semblable! – Mon Frère!” Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature 34.1 (2020): 45-56.

Mathews, Peter D. “The Ambivalence of Tradition in Rachel Kadish’s The Weight of Ink” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 46.1 (2020): 155-172.