MCM Graduate Program
Matthew Tierney
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Biography
Year Entered: 2006
Research interests: Contemporary theories of reading and interpretation; movies and novels in the United States after WWII; sexuality and politics; Melville; Sirk; Nabokov; Welles; Wright; Perec; Mekas; figures and voids; masculinity and film acting; authorship, censorship, and testimony; literary and film formalisms; and mid-century U.S. criticism.
Teaching:
MCM0900V: Interpretation as Detection (Fall 2009; also ENGL0910D)
Publication:
"Oh no, not again." Sign of the Times?: Psychoanalytic Literary and Cultural Criticism in Changing Paradigms. Anneleen Masschelein and Maarten de Pourcq, eds. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press (Forthcoming).