Matthew Lester Eatough

Assc Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: matthew.eatough@baruch.cuny.edu

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Education

Ph.D., English, Vanderbilt University Nashville TN

M.A., English, Vanderbilt University Nashville TN

M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago Chicago IL

B.A., English/History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Spring 2023ENG3215Literature and Globalization
Spring 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2023GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2023GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2023ENG6002HHonors English II
Fall 2022ENG6001HHonors-English I
Fall 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2022GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Fall 2022BLS3845Genres of African Literature
Summer 2022ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Spring 2022GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2022ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Spring 2022GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Fall 2021ENG4615The Global Business of Lit
Summer 2021ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Spring 2021GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2021ENG2850HHonors Great Works II
Spring 2021GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2021ENG3950Topics in Literature
Fall 2020ENG3215Literature and Globalization
Fall 2020ENG3030Cont Lit Asia,Afr,La
Fall 2020ENG2850HHonors Great Works II
Fall 2020BLS3085Special Topics Bls
Summer 2020ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Spring 2020GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2020ENG3215Literature and Globalization
Spring 2020ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2020ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2019ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2019ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2019GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2019ENG4615The Global Business of Lit
Spring 2019ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2019GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2019GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Fall 2018ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2018ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2018ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2018GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Fall 2017ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2017ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2017IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Fall 2017GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2017ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2017PSY4900Capstone: Psy Appr Cont Probl
Spring 2017GLS4900Global Studies Capstone
Spring 2017IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Fall 2016ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2016ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2015ENG2850HHonors Great Works II
Fall 2015ENG3950Topics in Literature
Fall 2015ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Spring 2015ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2015ENG4440Currents in the Modern Novel
Fall 2014ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2014ENG3030Cont Lit Asia,Afr,La
Spring 2014ENG2150Writing II
Spring 2014ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2013ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2013ENG3036Post-Colonial Literature

Books

Eatough, M. (2023). Open For Business: A Literary History of the Corporation in Africa, 1945-2014. In Progress.

Eatough, M. (2019). Long Waves of Modernity: Global History, the World-System, and the Making of the Anglophone Novel, 1880-2010. In Progress.

Eatough, M. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms. New York, NY, USA, Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

Eatough, M., & Manase, I. (Eds.). (2022). Geographies of African Futures. Literary Geographies, 8(2). 110-118. In Progress.

Eatough, M. (2021). “Are They Going to Say This Is Fantasy?”: Kazuo Ishiguro, Untimely Genres, and the Making of Literary Prestige. Modern Fiction Studies, 67(1). 40-66.

Eatough, M. (2021). Global Modernisms Reconsidered. Dibur, 1(2). 1,500 words.

Eatough, M. (2020). How a Canon Is Formed: Censorship, Modernism, and the US Reception of Irish and South African Literature . Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 23(1). 120-143.

Eatough, M. (2019). The Participatory Cultures of Omenana: Reading and Writing on a Nigerian SF Website. Post45, 3,600 words.

Eatough, M. (2019). The Critic as Modernist: Es'kia Mphahlele's Cold War Literary Criticism. Research in African Literatures, 50(3). 136-156.

Eatough, M. (2018). Philology Contra Modernism: Translating Izibongo in Johannesburg. Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 3(3). 3,800 words.

Eatough, M. (2017). African Science Fiction and the Planning Imagination. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 4(2). 237-257.

Eatough, M. (2015). The Literary History of World-Systems, II: World Literature and Deep Time. Literature Compass, 12(11). 603-614.

Eatough, M. (2015). Planning the Future: Scenario Planning, Infrastructural Time, and South African Fiction. Modern Fiction Studies, 61(4). 587-611.

Eatough, M. (2015). The Literary History of World-Systems, I: Marxist Lineages. Literature Compass, 12(11). 591-602.

Eatough, M. (2013). National Citizens, Global Economies: Sarah Gertrude Millin and the Professionalization of Envy. Safundi, 14(3). 395-424.

Eatough, M. (2012). Bowen’s Court and the Anglo-Irish World-System. Modern Language Quarterly, 73(1). 69-94.

Eatough, M. (2011). The Time That Remains: Organ Donation, Temporal Duration, and Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Literature and Medicine, 29(1). 132-56.

Mary Watson's Intimate Publics. LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 9,000 words. In Progress.

Book Chapters

Eatough, M. (2024). Irish Fiction, Small Presses, and the World-System. Transnational Irish Literature (p. 6,000 words). Cambridge University Press.

Eatough, M. (2022). World-System: Literature and Geoculture. In Evans, J. (Ed.), Globalization and Literary Studies Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

Eatough, M. (2020). The Global Contemporary: The Humanitarian Legacy in Irish Fiction. In Reynolds, P. (Ed.), The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions (pp. 113-128). Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

Eatough, M. (2019). Futures, Inc.: South African Fiction in the Era of the African Renaissance. World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent (pp. 215-237). New York. Palgrave.

Eatough, M. (2016). Transatlantic Modernisms. In Straub, J. (Ed.), Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies (pp. 100-115). Berlin & New York, NY. de Gruyter.

Achebe: Modernity and Modernism. Chinua Achebe in Context (p. 6, 000 words). Cambridge University Press. In Progress.

Tramp and the Small-Press Revolution. Collection on Tramp Press (Final Title TBD) Bucknell University Press.

The Institutions of South African Modernism, 1920-1949. South African Modernisms In Progress.

Presentations

Eatough, M. L. (2024, March 3). Fiction, Fashion, and the Creative Industries in West Africa. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. : American Comparative Literature Association.

Eatough, M. L. (2024, March 3). Postcolonialism, the World-System, and the Problem of Genre Fiction. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. : American Comparative Literature Association.

Eatough, M. L. The (Re)invention of Catalan Modernism. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference.

Eatough, M. L. Publication as Curation: Small Presses, Culture Institutes, and the New International Modernism. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference.

Eatough, M. L. African Science Fictions, West and South. African Literature Association Annual Conference.

Eatough, M. (2021, April 30). Small Presses and the New International Modernist Style. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. : American Comparative Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2021, June 30). What Is Global Irish Literature? (roundtable). American Confrerence for Irish Studies Annual Conference. : American Conference for Irish Studies.

Eatough, M. (2021, May 31). The Goethe-Institut and the Futurity of African Literature. African Literature Association Annual Conference. : African Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2019, March 31). An Afropolitan For(u)m? Class and Culture in Nigerian SF Websites. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.: American Comparative Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2019, July 31). The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions (roundtable). Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Dublin, Ireland: The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

Eatough, M. (2019, October 31). Es'kia Mphahlele: The Critic as Modernist. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Toronto, CA: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2018, May 31). Futures, Inc.: South African Fiction in the Era of the African Renaissance. African Literature Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.: African Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2018, May 31). African Literary History and the Cold War (roundtable). African Literature Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.: African Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2018, July 31). African SF Periodicals and the Allure of Professionalism. Science Fiction Research Association Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI: Science Fiction Research Association.

Eatough, M. (2018, June 30). The Humanitarian Legacy in Contemporary Irish Fiction. American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting. Cork, Ireland: American Conference for Irish Studies.

Eatough, M. (2018, June 30). The Novel in an Age of Intellectual Property. Conference of the Society for Novel Studies. Ithaca, NY: Society for Novel Studies.

Eatough, M. (2018, November 30). Sestiger Modernism and the 1961 South African Constitution. Modernist Studies Association Annual Meeting. Columbus, OH: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2017, July 31). When Culture Becomes Property: Irish and South African Writing in the Northern University. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Utrecht, Netherlands: American Comparative Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2017, June 30). Afro SF and the Planning Imagination. African Literature Association Annual Meeting. New Haven, CT: African Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2016, November 30). New African English. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Pasadena, CA: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2016, March 31). Modernism, the Sestigers, and Academic Labor. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA: American Comparative Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2016, May 31). Print Culture, the Literacy Boom, and Anglophone Literature in Africa. Society of Novel Studies Biannual Conference. Pittsburg, PA: Society for Novel Studies.

Eatough, M. (2015, January 31). Academic Labor and the African Intellectual. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Vancouver, Canada: Modern Language Association.

Eatough, M. (2015, February 13). Doctoral Forum on English. Vanderbilt University, Department of English. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University.

Eatough, M. (2015, March 29). Planning the Future: Scenario Planning, Infrastructural Time, and South African Fiction. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA: American Comparative Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2015, August 31). On Peer Review. Fall Faculty Retreat & Orientation. Baruch College: Baruch Writing Program.

Eatough, M. (2015, November 30). A Genealogy of Global Modernism. Global Modernism: State of the Field. New York, NY: Global Modernisms Group, NYU.

Eatough, M. (2015, November 30). Yeats and Global History. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2014, June 30). A Brief History of Stupefaction: Global Consumerism and the Big House Novel. Joint Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association of Irish Studies. Dublin, Ireland: American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association of Irish Studies.

Eatough, M. (2014, November 30). The Global University’s Modernist Boom. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Pittsburg, PA: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2013, June 30). Greater Britonism and the South African Constitution. Joint Meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association, the British Association for Victorian Studies, and the Australasian Victorian Studies Association. Venice, Italy: North American Victorian Studies Association, the British Association for Victorian Studies, and the Australasian Victorian Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2013, March 31). Chaka, the New Africans, and Formalist History. African Literature Association Annual Meeting. Charleston, SC: African Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2013, January 31). Institutions of Feeling: The Novel and the World-System. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Boston, MA: Modern Language Association.

Eatough, M. (2013, November 30). Claude McKay, W. M. Macmillan, and the Liberal Plantation. NYC Modernism Seminar. New York, NY: NYC Modernism Seminar.

Eatough, M. (2013, September 30). Sarah Gertrude Millin and the Professionalization of Envy. Weissman School of Arts and Sciences Brown Bag. New York, NY: Weismann College of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY.

Eatough, M. (2012, April 30). Feeling Modern, Again: On J. M. Coetzee and Semiperipheral World-Systems. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Lecture Series. Nashville, TN: Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

Eatough, M. (2012, October 31). Colonial Constitutionalism and the Spirit of Capitalism. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2011, October 31). The Sterling Area and South African Fiction. The Structures of Innovation. Buffalo, NY: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2011, November 30). Is There a Sociology of the Fin-de-Siècle Colonial Novel?. Performance and Play. Nashville, TN: North American Victorian Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2011, March 31). Shaw, Fabianism, and the Anglo-Irish Landlord. American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference. Madison, WI: American Conference for Irish Studies.

Eatough, M. (2011, October 31). Modernism, Genre, Semiperiphery. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Buffalo, NY: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2011, October 31). The Sterling Area and South African Fiction. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Buffalo, NY: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2010, April 30). Neoliberalism on the Periphery: The Paradoxes of South African Cosmopolitanism. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA: American Comparative Literature Association.

Eatough, M. (2010, November 30). The Curious Case of Roy Campbell. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Victoria, Canada: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2009, February 28). Caught Between Identification and Completion: The Gendering of Union in Anglo-Irish Big House Fiction. The Desire for Representation/The Desire of Representation. New York, NY: SUNY-Stony Brook English Department.

Eatough, M. (2009, February 28). Of Cosmopolitans and Modernists: Placing the Subject of The World Republic of Letters. Liminal Literature. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison English Department.

Eatough, M. (2009, March 31). Minimalist Cosmopolitanism: Reading Coetzee Transnationally. Navigating the Body. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia English Department.

Eatough, M. (2009, October 31). The Time That Remains: Organ Donation, Temporal Duration, and Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Conference. Knoxville, TN: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.

Eatough, M. (2009, November 30). Joyce or Beckett? Locating Irish Cosmopolitics in a Global Frame. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada: Modernist Studies Association.

Eatough, M. (2008, March 31). Encoding the Public. Marxist Reading Group Annual Conference. Gainesville, FL: Marxist Reading Group.

Eatough, M. (2008, November 30). Revisiting Cosmopolitanism: European Universalism, Colonial Transnationalism, and James Joyce’s Ulysses. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Nashville, TN: Modernist Studies Association.

Other Scholarly Works

Eatough, M., & Manase, I. (2022). (Ed.) African Futures. A Special Issue of *Literary Geographies*. 8(2),

In Progress.

Eatough, M., & Mitchell, W. J. (2006). Iconoclasm. Theories of Media Keyword Glossary.

Reviews

Eatough, M. L. (2024,July 3). A Sprawling, Encyclopedic Archeology of Cold War Thought: A Review of Miquel de Palol’s The Garden of Seven Twilights. Ancillary Review of Books.

Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). Review of Sreya Chatterjie, Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women's Writing in the Contemporary Era. New Hibernia Review. In Progress.

Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). The Literatures of Irish America: On Joe Cleary's World-Systems Scholarship. Los Angeles Review of Books.

Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). The Novelist as Conceptual Artist: A Review of The Famous Magician by Cesar Aira. Ancillary Review of Books.

Eatough, M. L. (1970,January 1). Review of Joe Cleary, Modernism, Empire, World Literature. Modern Language Quarterly. In Progress.

Eatough, M. (2017,April 1). Review of Susan Stanford Friedman, *Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time*. Modern Fiction Studies.

Eatough, M. (2017,April 1). Review of Thomas S. Davis, *The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life*. Modern Language Quarterly.

Eatough, M. (2016,October 1). Review of Laura Barbarian Reináres, *Sex Trafficking in Post-Colonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bola-o*. James Joyce Literary Supplement.

Eatough, M. (2016,April 1). Review of The Warwick Research Collective, *Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature*. Postcolonial Text.

Eatough, M. (2013,July 1). Accommodating Intimacy, Compromising Sex. Twentieth-Century Literature.

TitleFunding Agency SponsorStart DateEnd DateAwarded DateTotal FundingStatus
Small Presses, Translation, and the New International Modernism PSC CUNY 5307/01/202206/30/202304/15/20224551Completed
Irish Fiction, Small Presses, and the World-System PSC CUNY 5207/01/202106/30/202304/15/20214530Completed
The Goethe-Institute and the Futurity of African LiteraturePSC-CUNY 5107/01/202012/31/202204/17/20204530Completed
The New Spirit of African Literature? Small Presses and the Rhetoric of EntrepreneurialismPSC-CUNY 5007/01/201906/30/202004/13/20194530Completed
Magical Realism in the Age of Intellectual PropertyPSC-CUNY 4907/01/201812/31/201904/15/20184530Completed
Magical Realism in the Age of Intellectual PropertyEugene Lang Fellowship06/01/201806/30/201903/29/20185387.5Completed
Keynesian Literary History: A Model for a Global Literary StudiesPSC-CUNY 4607/01/201506/30/201604/17/20154470Completed
Long Waves of Modernity: The Affective History of the Anglophone Novel, 1880-2010PSC-CUNY 4507/01/201406/30/201504/15/20143500Completed
Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Abioseh Porter Best Essay AwardAfrican Literature Association2019
2015 Margaret Church MFS Memorial PrizeModern Fiction Studies2016Best essay published in the journal Modern Fiction Studies
Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, ShortlistModernist Studies Association2013Shortlisted for The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (Assistant Editor).
Thomas Daniel Young AwardDepartment of English, Vanderbilt University2012Honors excellence in teaching
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching AwardCollege of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University2011
Robert Manson Myers Graduate AwardDepartment of English, Vanderbilt University2011Best dissertation prospectus
Rose Alley Press AwardDepartment of English, Vanderbilt University2010
School of Criticism and TheoryCornell University2009
John M. Aden AwardDepartment of English, Vanderbilt University2009Best graduate paper. Awarded for “Minimalist Cosmopolitanism: Reading Beckett and Coetzee Transnationally."
Phi Beta KappaPhi Beta Kappa, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chapter2004

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Global Studies Minor CommitteeCommittee ChairPresent
Curriculum CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
Global Studies Minor CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
Ad Hoc Committee on Department BylawsCommittee MemberPresent
Weissman Undergraduate Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Member6/30/2023
English Department Executive CommitteeCommittee Member6/30/2023
Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Chair6/30/2023
Committee on CommitteesCommittee Member5/31/2022
Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Member6/30/2019
Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching Observation FormCommittee Member5/31/2019
Representative to the Zicklin SchoolAttendee, Meeting8/31/2016
Composition CommitteeCommittee Member6/30/2016
School of Public Affairs Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Member6/30/2016
Globalization's MoodsCommittee Chair12/31/2014
The Function of Class Discussion at the Present Time (Staff Development Workshop)Workshop Co-Leader (with Prof. Frank Cioffi)4/24/2014

Professional

OrganizationPosition RoleOrganization StateOrganization CountryStart DateEnd DateAudience
African IdentitiesReviewer, Journal Article6/1/2019Present
LIT: Literature Interpretation TheoryReviewer, Journal Article3/14/2013Present
Studies in the NovelReviewer, Journal Article3/1/2019Present
Manuscript ReviewerReviewerNew YorkUnited States8/31/2013PresentNational
Steering Committee for MSA Brooklyn 2020 [Canceled due to COVID]Committee MemberNew YorkUnited StatesPresentNational
Modernist Studies AssociationOfficer, TreasurerPennsylvaniaUnited StatesPresentNational
NANO: New American Notes OnlineEditorial Board New YorkUnited States5/1/2015PresentNational
Modern Fiction StudiesReviewer, Journal Article1/1/2024PresentNational
Grant Review for The Welcome Trust/Medical Humanities FellowshipGrant Proposal Reviewer, ExternalLondonUnited KingdomPresentInternational
SUNY PressReviewer, Book7/1/2022PresentNational
The Welcome Trust/Medical Humanities FellowshipReviewer, Grant Proposal9/11/2013Present
NANO: New American Notes OnlineEditorial Review Board MemberNew York5/1/2015Present
Bloomsbury PressReviewer, Book9/1/2015Present
Organizing Committee 2020 Modernist Studies Association ConferenceCommittee Member1/1/2017PresentNational
SafundiReviewer, Journal Article8/1/2018Present
Literature and MedicineReviewer, Journal Article8/1/2018Present
Peter Lang OxfordReviewer, Book11/1/2018Present
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and CultureReviewer, Journal Article12/1/2018Present
American Comparative Literature AssociationSeminar Leader3/15/20243/17/2024National
Steering Committee for MSA Brooklyn 2023Committee MemberNew YorkUnited States1/1/202210/29/2023National
Crossing Borders: Studies in Global Literature and Culture (book series, Peter Lang US)Editor, Book9/1/20149/30/2016
Modernist Studies AssociationSeminar LeaderMassachusettsUnited States11/30/2015
NAVSA Annual ConferenceSession ChairTennesseeUnited States11/30/2011