Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A.,  University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A.,   Pitzer College

Matthew Stratton joined the English Department in 2008. He is currently working on a book manuscript about the philosophy and politics of irony in 20th-century literary culture in the United States. His scholarly interests include the continuing history of aesthetics, anarchism and other radical political movements in the U.S., satire, theories of the public, visual culture, and modernism.

Publications:

• "Start Spreading the News: Irony, Public Opinion, and the Aesthetic Politics of U.S.A." Twentieth Century Literature 54.4 (Winter 2008): 1-28.
• "Nietzsche in Greenwich Village: Visions of Politics, Aesthetics and Irony in the 1910s." Arizona Quarterly 65:2 (Summer 2009): 57-82.
  
• Review of The American Protest Essay and National Belonging: Addressing Division, by Brian Norman. Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 30:2 (2008): 216-219.
• Review of Adorno and Critical Theory, by Hauke Brunkhorst. Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 94:1 (Spring 2002).