 Matthew Sivils
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
(Ames, Iowa)
PhD Oklahoma State University (2006)
American Literature
“A teacher,” Henry Adams wrote, “affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Through their exceptional teaching and mentoring, the faculty of Oklahoma State’s English Department played a crucial role in my development as a teacher and scholar. Now I hope to pass this knowledge, this influence, on to my own students."
~Matthew Sivils, April 2006
Recent Publications
Books
Song of the Oktahutche: Collected Poems. By Alexander Posey. Edited with an introduction and notes by Matthew Wynn Sivils. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Traditions. By Alexander Posey. Edited with an introduction and notes by Matthew Wynn Sivils. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Lost Creeks: Collected Journals. By Alexander Posey. Edited with an introduction and notes by Matthew Wynn Sivils. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming in 2009.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief. By James Fenimore Cooper. Edited with introduction and notes by Matthew Wynn Sivils. Under contract with AMS Press.
Articles
“Faulkner’s Ecological Disturbances.” Forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly.
“‘Yours Truly, THE AUTHOR’: Cooper’s Leather-Stocking Prefaces.” In Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper . Edited by Jeffrey Walker. New York: AMS Press, 2008. 182-200.
“Reading Trees in Southern Literature.” Southern Quarterly 44.1 (2006): 88-102.
“William Bartram’s Travels and the Rhetoric of Ecological Communities.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 11.1 (2004): 56-70.
“Native American Sovereignty and Old Deb in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly.” American Transcendental Quarterly 15.4 (2001): 293-304.
Honors & Offices
- W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 2007-2008.
- James F. Beard Award for Young Scholars for “‘Yours Truly, THE AUTHOR’: Cooper’s Leather-Stocking Prefaces,” The James Fenimore Cooper Society, July 30, 2007.
- Graduate Research Excellence Award for “Song of the Oktahutche: The Complete Journals and Poems of Alexander Posey,” doctoral dissertation, OSU Graduate College, 2006.
- Clinton Keeler Fellowship for the Department’s Outstanding Doctoral Candidate, Oklahoma
State University , Department of English, 2006.
- Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, OSU Foundation, 2003-2006.
- Robberson Dissertation Research Fellowship, Oklahoma State University Graduate College, 2005.
- Graduate Research Excellence Award for “The Stories, Orations, and Muscogee (Creek) Folklore of Alexander Posey,” Master’s thesis, OSU Graduate College, 2002.
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