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

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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. Morgan Graduate Fellowship in English, Princeton University *“Researching the Archive,” competitive year-long dissertation seminar, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. *Dissertation Research Fellowship, Princeton University, Center for Study of Religion *Research grant, Princeton University, Center for Digital Humanities 2017: “The Handwriting and Culture of Early Modern England,” summer seminar with competitive funding, Rare Books School, University of Virginia 2016: Research Grant, Princeton University, Institute for International and Regional Studies *“More’s Utopia: Humanist Literature and Political Thought,” competitive six-week summer seminar, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. 2013: The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize, Cornell University 2010: The Sydney Cox Thesis Prize, Dartmouth College *Class Orator, Dartmouth College (elected by my peers to deliver an address during commencement week) 2009: Academic Citation, Dartmouth College (for exceptional coursework in Literary Theory) *The William W. Cook Fellowship, Dartmouth College 2008: The Lockwood Prize, Dartmouth College (for a Sophomore) 2007: Thomas Ralston IV Prize, Dartmouth College (for a first-year)

TEACHING

Princeton University: Assistant-in-Instruction *English 200: Introduction to English Literature: 14th-18th Century, S’17 *English 320: Shakespeare I, F’17 *English 351: American Literature, 1865-1930, S’18

Cornell University: Lead Instructor *English 1127: Shakespeare (First-year writing seminar), S’14, F’13, S’13, F’12 *English 2800: Introduction to Creative Writing, S’14, F’13, S’13, F’12

Cornell University: Teaching Assistant *English 3390: Jane Austen, F’11

SERVICE

2015-2018: Resident Graduate Student, Mathey College, Princeton University (live-in mentor and programming assistant for one of Princeton’s six undergraduate residential colleges) 2015-2017: Graduate Student Administrative Assistant, Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton

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*Co-Convener, Renaissance and Early Modern Colloquium, Princeton University, English Dept. *Representative, Working Group for Graduate Issues, Princeton University, English Dept. 2013-2014: MFA field representative, Cornell University Graduate Policy & Curriculum Committee

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