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Thai-Catherine Matthews

Assistant Professor

Phone: 518-580-5180
Email: tmatthews@skidmore.edu
Office: Palamountain Hall 316

Education:

• B.A. Wellesley College
• MPhil University of Cambridge
• M.A. John Hopkins University
• Ph.D. John Hopkins University

Teaching and research interests:

• Medieval Literature
• Modern Medievalisms in Popular Culture
• Critical Race Theory
• Comparative Approaches to Literature and Media

Courses taught:

• EN 105: Writing with Magic
• EN 229: Psychology of the Quest — Misadventure in Medieval Romance

Selected publications:

• 2024. “On the Margins of ‘Alle’: Enclosure as Resistance in the Paralleled Feminist Theologies of Julian of Norwich and Harriet Jacobs” in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies Special Issue: “Race, Race Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages” (99.2). Print.
• 2024. "Taking One's Place: Affirmative Action and the Legacy of Academia's Black Expats." Authored for the online Early American History magazine Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies. www.insurrecthistory.com.
• 2022. “Screaming With Laughter: How Jordan Peele’s Get Out Re-Reads Obama by Re-Writing the Black Messiah.” University of Indiana’s Black Camera: An International Film Journal (13.2). Print.

Selected honors:

• Gale Scholar, Digital Humanities @ Oxford Fellowship, University of Oxford 2025
• Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Graduate Research Fellow, 2023-24
• Mellon Humanities Collaboratory Summer Teaching Fellow, 2019-21
• Gates Cambridge Scholar, University of Cambridge, 2020-21