Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Matt Fullerty

E-mail: fullerty@gmail.com

Author Website: www.mattfullerty.com

Dear England: A Letter from America (blog): http://dearengland.blogspot.com

APPOINTMENTS

09/10 – 05/11              THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC.

Professorial Lecturer in English.

01/11 – 05/11              Currently teaching class Introduction to British Literature, “The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century”

                                    (with focus on Romantic and Victorian poets and fiction writers). 

09/10 – 12/10              Taught class on Comedy entitled: “So you think that’s funny? Comedy from the Greeks to

the Post-Modern and Beyond” (with primary focus on the history of comedy in European drama).

09/10 – 12/10              Taught class Introduction to British Literature, “The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century”

                                    (with focus on Romantic, Victorian and Modernist poetry). 

09/09 – 05/10              UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, Washington, DC (online).

Faculty Lecturer, English.

12/09                           Became Certified Instructor.

09/09 – 05/10              Taught “Children’s Literature in a Pluralistic Society.”

01/09 – 04/09              UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, Bloomsbury, London.

                                    Lecturer in Creative Writing.

01/09 – 04/09              Taught the M.A. in Creative Writing alongside UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion (Director of the M.A. in Creative Writing), poet Jo Shapcott and novelist Susanna Jones.                                 

01/09 – 04/09              Taught a postgraduate workshop (Fiction): I taught the class for the first half of the term, then swapped students (and vice versa) with Professor Motion.                                    

01/09 – 04/09              Taught a postgraduate class (Reading as a Writer): I taught a weekly novel alongside a

critical text in order to inspire fiction-writing in the above Fiction workshop.  

9/04 – 12/08                THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC, USA.

Professorial Lecturer in English.          

9/08 – 12/08                Taught class “Introduction to American Literature, 1865-Present.”

9/07 – 12/07                GTA for Dr. Jonathan Hsy, “Early English Literature: Imagined Realms, Expanding Horizons.”

1/07 – 4/07                  Taught Introduction to British Literature, “The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.” Covered last two centuries of British literature, teaching freshman through seniors.

9/06 – 12/06                Taught Introduction to British Literature, “The Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century.” Covered four centuries of British literary history in one class, teaching freshman through seniors.

9/05 – 6/06                  Taught University Writing freshman composition class, “Extreme Censorship: Adaptation from Text to Screen.” (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006).

9/04 – 6/05                  Taught University Writing freshman composition class, “Lost in the Academy: The Academic Novel in Britain and America.” (Fall 2004 and Spring 2005).

9/04 – 12/04                Tutored DC police in writing in the Police Science B.A. program.

WRITING RESIDENCIES

8 / 11                           VERMONT STUDIO CENTER, Johnson, VT (forthcoming).

                                    Writing Fellow (Artist's Grant and Work Exchange Grant).

                                    Residency to continue my third novel American Con Artist.

                                    See Vermont Studio Center and VSC YouTube video for more details.

EDUCATION

9/03 – 5/08                 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC.

Ph.D. in English (19th and 20th century British and American literature).                          

Ph.D. Dissertation: The British and American Academic Novel: The Professorromane, The Comic Campus, The Tragic Self.

Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) in the English Department, 4-year fellowship.

9/01 – 6/02                  UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, Norwich, England.

                                    M.A. in Creative Writing (Prose) with UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and W. G. Sebald.

9/99 – 3/00                  WEST HERTS COLLEGE, Watford, England.

Pg.Dip. (Postgraduate Diploma) in Multimedia Publishing. Covered all aspects of Editorial (copy-editing and proof-reading), Marketing (planning an integrated campaign), Commissioning, (researching a list), DTP (QuarkXPress) and Multimedia (Photoshop and webpage construction).

9/95 – 6/98                  OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, England.

B.A., English Language and Literature, (2:1).

Activities: College rowing captain of 2^nd eight crew (1996-97), and 1^st eight crew (1997-98).

9/88 – 6/95                  THE MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL, England.
6/95                             3 A Levels (all Grade A): English, French, Geography

6/94                             Warren Prize for English; Lower-sixth Geography Prize

93 – 94                         8 GCSEs (all Grade A): Maths, English Language, English Literature (Oral Distinction),

 French, German, Geography, Latin, Chemistry

9/03 – 6/04                  Tutored undergraduates and graduates for 4 semesters in the University Writing Center.

PUBLICATIONS

10/10                           Journalism: Daily Mail (UK): Feature News Story about Sir David Attenborough (national story).

                                    Feature: "How a skull found in David Attenborough's garden has solved one of Victorian Britain's most gruesome murder mysteries."

                                    News Story: "Skull found in Sir David Attenborough's garden that solves 1879 Barnes murder mystery."

06/10                           Novel Trilogy: American Con Artist (work-in-progress).

American Con Artist is Part One of American X Trilogy (American Con Artist,

American Sophomore, American Author). Currently writing as resident, Artists’ Enclave at I-Park.

06/10                           Novel: The Murderess and the Hangman, with London literary agent James Wills, Director of Watson Little.

                                    Book Editor:

1/11                             Loveswept in Turkey by Dr. Engin Holmstrom, a cross-cultural novel about a British merchant seaman and an upper-class Turkish girl set

                                    in the 1950s. 

12/10                           The Death of Prussia: The Elimination of Germany's Easternmost Province by Peter Clark, former Chief, World Economics Studies Division,

                                    International Monetary Fund.        

6/10                             Building an Alliance with a Patient who has a Severe and Chronic Trauma History, Psy. D. dissertation, by Katie-Scarlet O'Byrne.

5/10                             Bootstraps: Is the Price too Low? by Bruno Mpoy, 1^st Unison Publishing, New York.

05/10                           Review: Author interview for F Street Review with British novelist Andrew Smith in review of his WWII novel Edith's War               

                                    for Axiom Publishing: http://edithswar.com/id12.html

9/08                             Novel: The Pride and the Sorrow, with London literary agent James Wills of Watson Little.

7/08                             Opening chapter of The Pride and the Sorrow published in Word Riot.

TBD                             Opening chapter of The Pride and the Sorrow to be published in THEMA.

9/08                             Dissertation:

The British and American Academic Novel: The Professorromane, The Comic Campus, The Tragic Self

To be published by Parkgate Press in June 2011.

8/08                             Screenplay: The Knight of New Orleans, with London agent Meg Davis, Director of MBA Literary Agency, and registered with the Writers Guild of America, East.

Critical Reviews: The St. Ann’s Review.

Summer/Fall 2003         Future, Past, Present. Review of Anne Ursu’s Spilling Clarence and The Disapparation of James (novels).

Winter/Spring 2004       Deciphering Stones. Review of Ben Dowling’s The Calligraphy Shop (poetry).                        

6/02                             Short Fiction: For Kicks, published in Paper, Scissors, Stone: New Writing from the University of East

Anglia (2002). University of East Anglia Press, 2002, ISBN: 978-0953607235

Please click Wikipedia here for a full list of my short fiction.

1999 – 2002                  Poetry: Poems published in Island, Fire, Poetry Monthly, Manifold and Weyfarers (UK poetry magazines).

AWARDS

8/11                             Writer-in-Residence (Fiction), Artist's Grant, Vermont Studio Center (forthcoming).

                                    Please see this video introduction to the Vermont Studio Center.                                   

6 – 7/10                       Writing Fellow (Writer-in-Residence, Fiction), Artists’ Enclave at I-Park.

See I-Park's list of fellows for Creative Writing.

7/10                             Contender, Claymore Dagger Award 2010 http://killer-nashville.com/conference-info/attendees

6/10                             Murder on a Sunday Afternoon, Agented-only Entry, BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (UK).

2/10                             Second Round, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2010 (General Fiction) for

The Pride and the Sorrow, my novel about New Orleans chess player Paul Morphy.

7/08                             Winner of Bookhabit Novel Competition 2008 for The Pride and the Sorrow. See

http://reviewyak.com/?m=200806 and www.mattfullerty.com for more details.

6/08                             ‘Almost Finalist’ in The William Faulkner-Wisdom Competition for The Pride and the Sorrow.  See The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society at www.wordsandmusic.org/competition2008FaulknerWinners.html

5/08                             ‘Alternate Choice’ to live in Jack Kerouac's old house for 3 months, The Kerouac Project (www.kerouacproject.org). This the house where Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums.

4/06                             English Department Graduate Teaching Award 2006-2007 (George Washington University).

9/03 – 4/07                  4-year GTA Scholarship Award 2003-2007 (George Washington University).

INTERVIEWS

2/11                             On 16th February 2011, I will interview as a 'talking head' for Beyond Productions's TV show "Deadly Women" in New York, NY.

                                    I have been invited to speak about the subject of my second novel, murderess Kate Webster, one of an episode's featured subjects.

                                    "Deadly Women" will air in the US on Investigation Discovery during this fall's 5th season of the show, from August 2011.

                                    You can watch previous episodes of the show here.

05/10                           My interview of British novelist Andrew Smith published on his publisher's (Axiom Publishing) website:

                                    http://edithswar.com/id12.html

06/08                           My interview with the Bookhabit Show's 20,000 podcast listeners after winning the Bookhabit Award for The Pride and the Sorrow.

                                    Please click here for the 23-minute interview with Clare Tanner of the Bookhabit Show (distributed by Review Yak).

CONFERENCES

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