Matthew Cheney is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University. He earned a BA and PhD in English from the University of New Hampshire, and an MA in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College. He taught high school English and theatre for ten years in New Hampshire and New Jersey. Before joining Plymouth State's Interdisciplinary Studies program, he taught courses in English, Women’s Studies, and Communications & Media Studies.
Matthew is the author of the collection Blood: Stories, which won the Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2016, as well as Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form, recently released by Bloomsbury Academic. He has published fiction and essays with a wide variety of venues, including Conjunctions, One Story, Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Weird Tales, Literary Hub, and elsewhere, and academic work with English Journal, Woolf Studies Annual, Science Fiction Film & Television, and the forthcoming books Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English (MLA) and The LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader (University of Mississippi Press).
