CURRICULUM VITAE
Matthew Shane Moore
m.s.moore@wustl.edu
Education
PhD, English and American Literature, Washington University, 2024-present
MFA, Creative Writing and Environment, Iowa State University, 2021-2024
BA, Majors: English and Studio Arts, Minors: Cinema Studies and Creative Writing, Graceland University, 2014-2019
Teaching Experience
At Iowa State University, 2021-2024:
Upward Bound Summer Program: Rhetoric and Composition, Summer 2024
Engl150 Critical Thinking and Communication (x2)
Engl250 Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition (x4)
Engl250 Virtual/Asynchronous (x2)
Engl559 Creative Writing Teaching Internship (x2)
At Graceland University:
Dekko Youth Outreach: Teaching Poetry in Rural High Schools, Fall 2016
Publications
Public Scholarship and Essays
“All The Rage: Falling Apart in The Managerial World of Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company” InVisible Culture, Spring 2026
“Rehearsal of the Repressed” for Mid-Theory Collective, Spring 2026
“Garage” for Object Lessons: Impressions in The Pittsburgh Review of Books, Fall 2025
“Psychoanalysis in the Midwest” in Belt Magazine, Summer 2025.
“On Running out of Gas in Rural Missouri: Note on Fatherhood and Petroleum” in Belt Magazine, Fall 2024.
Scholarly Articles and Chapters
“Student Spotlight: Matthew Moore, The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, 2nd Edition” in A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students, ed. Elizabeth Mays, The Rebus Community, 2018 (reproduced in the OER Open at the Margins from Rebus Community, 2019)
Interviews and Invited Speaking
Guest facilitator on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “Paranoid and Reparative Reading, Or You’re So Paranoid You Probably Think This Essay is About You” for St. Louis Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, Summer 2025.
Interviewed in “Reading Your Readers,” Ampersand, Washington University, Spring 2025. https://publicscholarship.wustl.edu/news/graduate-student-matthew-moore-shares-his-personal-take-public-scholarship
Guest speaker for “The Symposium in Public Scholarship,” The Program in Public Scholarship at Washington University, Fall 2024.
Conference Presentations
“‘The Wood Holds Many Spirits’: Wooden Performance, Flat Affect, and Ecology in Twin Peaks,” Washington University English Graduate Student Colloquium, Spring 2026.
“From Flâneurs to Last Men: Drive, Drift, and the Psychotic Literature of Atopic Modernity,” LACKv, Spring 2025.
“‘Pickup Truck Pundit’ and the Encounter with the Real: Masculine Enjoyment, Specular Identity, and the Rural Far-Right in the Ruins of Neoliberalism,” Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Fall 2023.
“‘So the Camera Changes Things?’: Abject Bodies and The Un-Imaged Residue of the Rural in Ti West’s X,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon, Summer 2023
“The Eye in Identity: Asian-Americanness in Chan is Missing,” Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, Spring 2019.
Honors and Awards
Neureuther Essay Contest Award Second Place Winner for “A History of Textuality: Foucault in the Margins of My Masculinity,” Washington University, 2025
Cornelison Award Second Place Winner for “Fortune’s Forfeiter: The Black Knight as Exception in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess,” Washington University, 2025
Velma Ruch English Scholarship for Best Student Essay, 2018
Velma Ruch English Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement, 2017
Professional and Institutional Service
Main Convener for The Psychoanalysis Reading Group, Washington University, 2025–present
Writing Tutor at Graceland University Writing Center, 2018-2019
Editor-in-Chief for The Vespiary Student Literary Journal, 2016-2019
Student Representative in Faculty Search Committee for Visual and Performing Arts Department, 2017
Student Representative on the Faculty Awards Committee, 2016-2018
Matthew Moore 