MATTHEW P. RITGER Dept. of English 5681 Frist Center Princeton University Princeton, NJ, 08544 22 McCosh Hall (207) 632-5066 Princeton, NJ, 08544
[email protected] EDUCATION Princeton University Ph.D., English, expected 2019 M.A., English Literature 1500-1700, 2016 Cornell University M.F.A., Poetry, 2014 Dartmouth College B.A. (High Honors), English, 2010 DISSERTATION Objects of Correction: English Literature and the Reformation of Punishment, 1516-1667 Advisors: Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack, Sophie Gee, Nigel Smith Objects of Correction reconstructs the early history of the argument for rehabilitative punishments, from More’s Utopia to colonial penal codes. Based in and around institutions such as London’s first Protestant hospitals and Bridewell Prison, the first House of Correction (established in 1553), Objects of Correction studies how literature and drama both addressed and affected penal reform in early modern England, during a crucial period in the rise of what Foucault has called “the correctional world.” PUBLICATIONS 2019 (forthcoming): “Reading Utopia in the Reformation of Punishment,” Renaissance Quarterly, 72.4 2018: “Marvell’s double negatives: Oliver Cromwell and ‘An Horatian Ode,’” English Literary History, 85.3 2016: “Invisible Shakespeare” (Review essay), The Los Angeles Review of Books 2015: “The Charges: On Jorie Graham’s From the New World: Poems 1976-2014,” The Los Angeles Review of Books *“Brilliant In Difference: On Three Emerging American Indian Poets,” The Los Angeles Review of Books Print Quarterly 2014: “Shrapnel and Song: On Contemporary Poetry from Afghanistan,” The Los Angeles Review of Books M.P. Ritger, CV 1 2013: “Translations from the Bone-House: On the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and John Hollander,” The Los Angeles Review of Books Print Quarterly AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2018-2019: Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University (Princeton’s highest honor for a graduate student) 2018: Hyde Summer Research Fellowship, Princeton University 2017-2018: Arthur P.