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Matthew James Vechinski
University of Washington
Department of English
Box 354330
Seattle, Washington 98195-4330

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Office phone: 206-616-6884 (leave message)
Department fax: 206-685-2673 (specify recipient)

Office: 353 Art
Winter 2008 office hours: Tuesdays/Wednesdays 12:30-1:30

MySpace profile: myspace.com/mjv_sea

• Twentieth-century British Fiction
• European Modernism
• Metafiction and the novel
• Authorship and intention
• Textual studies
• Literature as Idea
• The avant-garde
• Postmodernism
• Poststructuralist theory and post-theory
• Translation studies
• Hypertext and digital texts, particularly blogging
• Identity and identity politics

Authors/artists/theorists I have studied and written on: Kathy Acker, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Christine Brooke-Rose, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Christopher Isherwood, Henry James, Fredric Jameson, James Joyce, Francis Picabia, Jean Rhys, Arthur Rimbaud, Virginia Woolf

My scholarly writing has focused on topics such as design, anxiety, desire, innovation, intentionality, ineffability, and translation.

I'm currently writing my dissertation, tentatively titled Literary By Design: The Functional Aesthetics of the Twentieth-Century Novel.

Instructor for the following courses:

English 131 AC - Autumn 2003
Composition: Exposition
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English 131 BC - Winter 2004
Composition: Exposition
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English 131 BB - Spring 2004
Composition: Exposition
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English 111 K - Autumn 2004
Composition: Literature
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English 111 E - Winter 2005
Composition: Literature
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English 111 E - Spring 2005
Composition: Literature
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English 121 D - Autumn 2005
Composition: Social Issues (Service Learning): “Self and Other”
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English 121 B - Winter 2006
Composition: Social Issues (Service Learning): “Self and Other”
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English 121 A - Spring 2006
Composition: Social Issues (Service Learning): “Self and Other”
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English 242 A - Autumn 2006
Reading Fiction: “Reading Metafiction”
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English 111 N - Winter 2007
Composition: Literature
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English 242 C - Spring 2007
Reading Fiction: “The Value of Fiction in British Modernism”
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English 131 G - Summer 2007
Composition: Exposition
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English 242 D - Autumn 2007
Reading Fiction: “Writers of Fiction: Workmen [sic] or Artists?”
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English 213 A - Winter 2008
Modern and Postmodern Literature: “Not Merely ‘Transitional’: Literature Between Modernism and Postmodernism”
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English 200 D - Spring 2008
Reading Literature: “Borrowed Literature: Investigating Inclusiveness and Exclusiveness in Literary Traditions”

Visit my Online Resources for UW Students page.

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UW programs and organizations I am affiliated with:

Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington

Modernist Studies Group

English Graduate Student Organization

Practical Pedagogy

Out in the Classroom/qteacher

Graduate and Professional Student Senate

Creating Community Through Blogging

Professional organizations I belong to:

American Comparative Literature Association

Modern Language Association

Modernist Studies Association

The Society for Textual Scholarship