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Matthew Creasy joined the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2007. He has taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Durham, and St Andrews. His academic journey includes education at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Lincoln College, Christ Church, Oxford, followed by becoming a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University in 2000, where he completed his doctoral research on James Joyce. Creasy's research and publications focus on Irish literature, particularly the works of James Joyce, William Empson, T.S. Eliot, and Arthur Symons, with interests in decadence and Victorian periodical culture. His recent research centers on the influence of French literature on British fin de siècle and early Modernism. Additionally, he serves as the secretary for the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies and is the Vice-Chair of the British Association for Decadence Studies. He actively engages in supervising PhD dissertations, addressing a range of topics from Victorian literature to gender representation in comics, and teaches undergraduate courses on British Children’s Literature and Victorian Literature, contributing lectures on Literary Theory and Modern American Literature. He also convenes a postgraduate course titled 'Decadence Modern'.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow, UK
Teaches undergraduate courses on British Children’s Literature and Victorian Literature, and contributes lectures in Literary Theory and Modern American Literature.