MATTHEW M. ROBERSON
Department of English Language and Literature
Anspach Hall 208
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
matthew.roberson@cmich.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1997
M.A. English Pennsylvania State University 1992
B.A. English State University of New York at Binghamton 1989
DISSERTATION:
“Moinous Li(v)es,” Director Campbell Tatham
A study of novelists Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman, this dissertation situates postmodern American prose in the anti-foundational, counter-cultural contexts of the 1960s and 1970s. It also examines Paula Gunn Allen and Gerald Vizenor, tracing a relationship between postmodernism and contemporary Native American trickster literature.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Interim, a novel. Indiana, PA: Red Flag Press, 2022.
List, a novel. Tuscaloosa: FC2/U. of Alabama Press, 2014.
Impotent, a novel. Tuscaloosa: FC2/U. of Alabama Press, 2009.
Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick, Editor. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003.
1998.6, a novel. Normal/Tallahassee: FC2, 2002.
Articles
Introduction to and guest editorship of American Book Review issue on “The New Academic Novel.” Forthcoming.
“Teaching the Hypertext Novel.” Academic Exchange Quarterly: 9:3 (Fall 2005): 151-156.
“Introduction.” Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003. 1-12.
“Federman’s Supreme Pla(y)giarism: Take It or Leave It.” New Novel Review 5:1 (Fall 1998): 37-61.
“List of Answers” and “Paredros.” Federman, A to X-X-X-X: A Recyclopedic Narrative. Eds.
Larry McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, and Doug Rice. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1998. 176 177, 266-268.
“Ronald Sukenick’s Narratypography.” Electronic Book Review 7:2 (Summer 1998): http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr7/7roberson/7rober.htm.
Short Fiction
“A Small Family of Plague Stories.” Western Humanities Review 75.2 (Summer 2021): 9-18
“Yurt.” Fiction International 50 (Fall 2017): 146-149.
“In the Heartland: A Blueprint.” Reunion: The Dallas Review 7 (2017): 72-84.
“Possible Side Effects.” Reprint. Clackamas Literary Review: 20th Anniversary Issue. Oregon City, Oregon: Clackamas Literary Review, 2017. 37-45.
“A Segovia Mashup.” Your Impossible Voice 13 (Winter 2017): 81-99.
“VR.” Notre Dame Review 40 (June 2015): 1-14.
“Don Andres.” Threadcount 4 (Spring 2015) http://threadcountmag.com/issue-4-spring-15/matthew-roberson/
“This Placed.” Reprint. Litscapes: Collected Writings 2015. Normal, Illinois: Steerage Press, 2015. 317-323.
“Then What?” Elm Leaves Literary Journal. Wild Edition. (Winter 2013): 27-36.
“Seven Strategies for Survival (in a small town).” Your Impossible Voice 1:1 (September 2013): 29-34. https://www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/seven-strategies-for-survival-in-a-small-town/
“Years.” Web Conjunctions (February 2012) https://www.conjunctions.com/online/article/matthew-roberson-02-21-2012.
“Here’s What He Bought.” Cavalier Literary Couture (December 2011)
http://www.cavalierliterarycouture.com/#/online/pg2/Here%27s%20What%20He%20Bought/.
“Come Thanksgiving.” Rampike. 20:1 (Spring 2011): 78-82.
“This is Not a Celebration of Our Fathers.” Elimae (August 2010) http://elimae.com/2010/08/Fathers.html.
“This Placed.” Contrary Magazine (Summer 2010)
http://contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Matthew_Roberson_This_Placed.html.
“Do Not.” The Collagist 10 (May 2010) http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/do-not.html.
“Midwestament.” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (March 31, 2010) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2010/3/31roberson.html.
“Ways to Die.” Western Humanities Review Volume LXIV, Number 1 (Winter 2010): 6-21.
“Possible Side Effects.” Reprint. The &NOW Awards. Lake Forest, IL: &NOW Books, 2009. 304-308.
“In Progress.” Journal of Experimental Fiction 31 (Summer 2007): 218-235.
“With the Sisters.” Fiction International 39 (Winter 2006): 22-26.
“Possible Side Effects.” Clackamas Literary Review X (Spring 2006): 4-8. Winner of the Willamette Award in Fiction.
“ORTHO TRI-CYCLEN® LO.” Golden Handcuffs Review 1:6 (Winter/Spring 2005-06): 183-192.
“Paxil (Withdrawal).” Diagram 5.2 (Spring 2005): http://thediagram.com/5_2/roberson.html.
“Paxil.3.” Rhapsoidia 7 (Winter 2005): 20-21.
“Paxil.1” and “Viagra.” Black Ice Online (Winter 2004) http://www.altx.com/profiles/archives/2004/roberson/index.htm.
“Praxis.” Small Spiral Notebook 3:2 (Autumn 2004): <smallspiralnotebook.com>. (dead link)
“Paxil.2.” Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review 10:2 (Summer/Fall 2004): 175-179.
Reprinted excerpt from 1998.6, a novel. The Loop (2004): <www.clc.wvu.edu/loop/#>. (dead link)
Excerpts from 1998.6, a novel. Black Ice Online (Fall 1998): https://www.altx.com/profiles/archives/subliminal1/excerp.html.
“Femme Fatale.” The Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine 2:1 (Summer 1997): 36-45.
“Raised Hands.” The Nightshade Reader. Troy, Maine: Nightshade Press, 1995. 95-103.
Review Essays
“Around (and Around) Again: A Review of Raymond Federman’s Take It or Leave It and The Twofold Vibration.” American Book Review 19:6 (July/August 1999): 3-6.
“Tuned In: Review of Larry McCaffery’s Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors.” Postmodern Culture 8.1 (September 1997): http://jefferson.village.virginiahttps://www.pomoculture.org/2013/09/21/tuned-in/.edu/pmc/.
Reviews
Review of Yet to Come, by Cris Mazza. American Book Review. Forthcoming.
“A Mind Split in Two,” a review of The King of the Sea Monkeys. American Book Review: 36:5 (Jul/Aug 2015) 20-21.
“Limping Through Life,” a review of The Cost of Living. American Book Review 34:6 (Sep/Oct 2013): 8.
Reprint of review of As You Were Saying, eds. Fabrice Rozié, Esther Allen, and Guy Walter. American Book Review 31:5 (July/August 2010). 3.
Review of As You Were Saying, eds. Fabrice Rozié, Esther Allen, and Guy Walter. American Book
Review’s LineOnLine 29:5 (July/August 2008) https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/modfr/dalkey.htm.
Review of Part of the World, by Robert Lopez. American Book Review 29:1 (Nov/Dec 2007): 26.
Review of Terror-Dot-Gov, by Harold Jaffe. Rain Taxi 11:1 (Spring 2006): 50.
Review of Utopia Limited, by Marianne DeKoven. ESF 2:1 (Spring 2005): 23.
Review of VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Rain Taxi 8:3 (Fall 2003): 21.
“Me LA Droogies,” a review of Common Criminals. American Book Review 24:6 (Sept/Oct 2003): 16.
Review of Mosaic Man, by Ronald Sukenick. The Cream City Review 22:2 (Spring 2000): 293.
Review of Damascus, by Richard Beard. The Review of Contemporary Fiction 19:1 (Spring
1999): 187.
Review of The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald. The Review of Contemporary Fiction 18:3 (Fall 1998): 241- 242.
Review of Echoes, by Dennis Barone. The Review of Contemporary Fiction 18:2 (Summer 1998): 247.
Review of Guide, by Dennis Cooper. The Review of Contemporary Fiction 18:1 (Spring 1998): 230.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from Interim (SSML, May 2022)
Panel Organizer and Presenter, Game Narratives/Narrative Games (&NOW Conference, October 2018)
Panel Presenter, An FC2 Board Fiction Reading (&NOW Conference, October 2018)
Panel Organizer, An FC2 Fiction Reading (&NOW Conference, October 2018)
Panel Organizer and Presenter, An FC2 Fiction Reading (AWP Conference, April 2015)
Panel Organizer and Presenter, An FC2 Fiction Reading (AWP Conference, March 2014)
Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Ongoing Experiments in Form” (&NOW: A Conference of Innovative Writing and Art, September 2013)
Panel Organizer, An FC2 Fiction Reading (AWP Conference, March 2013)
Fiction Reading, “Lithium,” from Impotent (AWP Conference, March 2012)
Fiction Reading, Selected short fiction (Invited reader at University of Colorado at Boulder, March 2011).
“Male Writers of Domestic Fiction” (AWP Conference, April 2010)
Fiction Reading, “Midwestament” (AWP Conference, April 2010)
Fiction Reading, “Ways to Die” (&NOW: A Conference of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts, October 2009)
Fiction Reading: “Y.,” from Impotent (AWP Conference, February 2009)
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from Impotent (SSML, May 2007)
“The Concrete Art of (Hyper)Fiction” (Literature and Visual Arts Panel at the National Popular & American Cultures Association Conference, April 2007)
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from Impotent (&NOW: A Festival of Innovative Writing and Art, April 2006)
“I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Hal Jaffe and Documentary Fiction” (Panel Organizer, Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, November 2005)
“Teaching the Hypertext Novel to Creative Writing Students” (Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations Conference, February 2005)
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from Impotent (SSML, May 2004)
“Not the Real Story” (Fiction by Collage Panel at AWP Conference, March 2004)
Fiction Reading: Excerpts from 1998.6. (A Festival of Postmodern Piracy, Kent State University-Salem, April 1999)
Discussant, Metafiction Panel (Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1997)
Fiction Reading (Cedarburg Gallery Walk’s Evening of Poetry and Fiction, October 1997)
“Collaboration as Pla(y)giarism: Raymond Federman’s Literary Thefts” (Collaboration/Elaboration Panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1996)
“Searching for Unity of Self: Kristjana Gunnars’s The Prowler” (UWM Literary Studies Symposium Series, Fall 1995)
Fiction Readings (UWM Faculty and Graduate Student Reading Series, 1994 & 1995)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
CMU College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award (2020-2021)
First Prize, Clackamas Literary Review Willamette Award in Fiction (2005)
CMU College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences Summer Faculty Scholar (2005)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Fellowship (1995-1996)
First Prize, The Milwaukee Fiction Award (1994)
Honorable Mention, The Milwaukee Fiction Award (1993)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Central Michigan University
2011-present
Associate Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Central Michigan University
2006-2011
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Central Michigan University
2003-2006
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of English and Philosophy
State University of West Georgia
2002-2003
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
1999-2001
Lecturer
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1996-1999
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1992-1995
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of English
Pennsylvania State University
1990-1992
COURSES TAUGHT:
Central Michigan University
English 134: Introduction to Literature
English 201: Advanced Composition
English 234: Introduction to Literary Analysis
English 294: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 338: Topics in Modern or Contemporary Fiction
English 391: Creative Writing, Fiction
English 491: Senior Fiction Workshop
English 513: Special Topics in Humanities Computing
English 535: History of Literary Criticism
English 622: Seminar in Contemporary American Fiction
English 691: Graduate Fiction Writing Workshop
English 694: The Craft of Fiction
State University of West Georgia
English 1101: Freshman Composition I
English 4/5205: Technical/Professional Writing
Brenau University
EH 102: Literature and Composition
Georgia Institute of Technology
LCC 1101: Introduction to Cultural Studies (Freshman Composition I)
LCC 1102: Cultural Studies of Science and Technology (Freshman Composition II)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
English 101: Introduction to College Writing (first term freshman composition)
English 102: Writing and Critical Thinking (second term freshman composition)
English 201: Strategies for Academic Writing (sophomore composition)
English 215: The Literary Imagination: Introduction to Studying Literature
English 224: American Writers: The Twentieth Century
English 233: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 309: American Writers: 1940ãPresent
Pennsylvania State University
English 15: Introduction to College Writing (first term freshman composition)
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
Excellence in Teaching Award Committee, University (2022-present)
English Department Composition Committee (2022- present)
ASH University Committee (2019-present, Secretary spring 2022)
English Department Honors Committee (2018-2022, Chair 2020-2022)
Faculty Advisor, Temenos (2017-2018)
English Department Ad Hoc Graduate Curriculum Committee (2017-present)
English Department GA Selection Committee (spring 2018)
English Department Assessment and Curriculum Committee (2016-present)
MDEC University Committee (2015-2018, Secretary 2017-2018)
Faculty Advisor, Temenos (2015-2016)
BS/ED Curriculum Revision Committee (spring 2015)
Coordinator, CMU Creative Writing Program (2014-2015, 2016-2017)
English Department Curriculum Committee (2014-2016)
External Reviewer for Oakland University Personnel Committee (fall 2014)
Judge, The FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest (2014)
Faculty Advisor, The CMU Fiction Collective (2013-2014)
Member, FC2 Board of Directors (2012-present)
Faculty Advisor, Temenos (2012-2013)
CMU FYE Advisory Council (2012-2015)
English Department Policy Committee (2012-2014)
English Department Honors Committee (2008-2012)
English Department Personnel Committee (2010-2011)
English Department Public Relations Committee (2008-2012)
CMU Public Broadcasting Committee (2009-2012)
English Department Personnel Committee (2007-2009)
English Department Conferences Committee (2006-2008)
Coordinator, CMU Creative Writing Concentration (2005-2009)
CMU Degrees, Admissions, Standards, and Honors Committee (2005-present; Secretary fall 2007)
English Department Policy Committee (2005-2007)
Faculty Advisor, The CMU Fiction Collective (2004-2010)
English Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2004-2006)
Member, ESF Editorial Board (2004-present)
English Department Conferences Committee (2003-2004)
Faculty Advisor, Temenos (2003-2006)
Faculty Advisor, Eclectic: Undergraduate Poetry and Fiction (2002-2003)
Co-Editor, Updrafts: A Journal of Freshman Writing (2002-2003)
Advisor, Context (1999-present)
UWM English Department Literary Studies Advisory Committee (1995-1996)
Milwaukee Graduate Assistant Association Grievance Committee (1994-1995)
UWM English Department Grievance Committee (1993-1994)
Matt Roberson 