Matthew Levay

Background

About Matthew Levay

I'm a Professor of English at Idaho State University, where my research and teaching focus on twentieth-century literature and culture, modernism, comics, popular print culture, genre fiction, periodicals, and film. I am the author of Violent Minds: Modernism and the Criminal (Cambridge University Press 2019) and the Co-Editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. I recently completed a book manuscript entitled "The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics"(forthcoming with the University of Nebraska Press, Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies series) and am researching another on modernism and seriality in the novel, magazines, newspaper comics, and films. In Spring 2022 I was a Fulbright Scholar at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, and from 2018-2024 I served as the Director of Graduate Studies in English at Idaho State, where I administered our Accelerated BA/MA in English, MA in English, and PhD in English and the Teaching of English. I currently serve as the Program Chair of the Modernist Studies Association, and recently completed a term as a Board member of the Idaho Humanities Council.