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About Me

Josh Matthews

Josh Matthews
Assistant Professor of English

Phone: (712) 722-6250
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Dr. Matthews specializes in early American literature.  His interests include literature of the American Midwest and West, and science fiction.

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.  His dissertation, "The American Alighieri: Receptions of Dante in the United States, 1818-1867," examined the rise of Dante in early American popular culture and during the Civil War. 

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