Matthew Gannon is a doctoral candidate in English at Boston College. His research investigates the politics of aesthetics and pays particular attention to questions of form in modernism. He is especially interested in aesthetic autonomy, literary responses to major political events like general strikes, and the politics of historiography. Matthew’s dissertation, "Modernity Against Itself," is predominantly informed by the theoretical intersection of Marxism and psychoanalysis. Focusing mainly on Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce, "Modernity Against Itself" traces the ways that modernism was simultaneously related to and antagonistic to capitalist modernity. Matthew has taught courses on the modernist epic and his most recent publication is forthcoming in the journal differences. He received his BA from Bowdoin College and MA from the University of Chicago.
