Matthew Gartner  

Matthew Gartner is an Associate Professor of English.  His research  interests  include 19th-Century American literature (especially Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), American  Studies, Literature and Society, poetry and poetics, and Pedagogy. 

Education:

Ph.D., City University of New York, 1999.
B.A., Williams College, English, 1983.

Recent Publications:

"The Cultural Career of Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,'" The Public Life of American Poetry [essay collection](forthcoming).

“Poetry Lessons: Longfellow’s Cultivation of a Readership,” Studies in American Culture 28:2, October 2005.

"Longfellow in American Literary and Cultural History," Longfellow National Historic Site Website, October 2003.

"Longfellow and The Song of Hiawatha," Longfellow House Bulletin, June 2001.

"Becoming Longfellow: Work, Manhood, and Poetry." American Literature 72:1, March 2000.

"Longfellow's Place: The Poet and Poetry of Craigie House." New England Quarterly 73:1, March 2000.