Thai-Catherine Matthews
Assistant Professor
B.A. Wellesley College
MPhil University of Cambridge
M.A. John Hopkins University
Ph.D. John Hopkins University
Office: Palamountain 316
Phone: (518) 580-5180
Email: tmatthews@skidmore.edu
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鈥擬isadventure in Medieval Romance
Selected Publications:
- 2024. 鈥淥n the Margins of 鈥楢lle鈥�: Enclosure as Resistance in the Paralleled Feminist Theologies of Julian of Norwich and Harriet Jacobs鈥� in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies Special Issue: 鈥淩ace, Race Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages鈥� (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. .
- 2022. 鈥淪creaming With Laughter: How Jordan Peele鈥檚 Get Out Re-Reads Obama by Re-Writing the Black Messiah.鈥� University of Indiana鈥檚 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