Matt Hooley

Department/Affiliation: English
Phone: 330-287-1930
Office Address: 221 Kauke
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00pm-5:00pm or by appointment
Email: mhooley@wooster.edu
Web Site: Matt Hooley

Degrees

• B.A., Carleton College 2004
• M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison 2006
• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison 2011

Courses Taught

• ENGL 120: Urban Indians
• ENGL 160: Nature and Environmental Writing
• ENGL 230: Modernist Poetry
• Multicultural Modernisms

Publications

• "The Practice of Native History," The Public Humanities (University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities Blog).
• "The Autoethnography of William Warren" in Wicazo Sa Review (forthcoming).
• "How bad can it be?" review of Bad Modernisms (Eds. Mao and Walkowitz). Minnesota Review Nos. 71-2 (Spring, 2009): 284-288.
• "Petals Off the Bough: Gerald Vizenor, Anishinaabe Dream Song, and the Revision of Pound's Eastern Poetics." Columbia Journal of American Studies, Vol. 8 (Spring, 2007): 139-161.

Research Interests

My teaching and writing are focused on the politics of contemporary literature, and of Native literature in particular. I'm working on a book, now, that explores this in the theater of post-relocation Minneapolis - a city whose vibrant history of Ojibwe, Dakota, and Pan-Tribal writing challenges easy assumptions about its whiteness, its (sub)urbanity, and even its Americanness. What excites me the most about this project is precisely this sense of challenge or confrontation. How an often-overlooked tradition of Native writing pushes us toward better accounts of broadly influential ideas: modernism and modernity, nationalism and democracy, American and Native cultural continuities.