Dr. Matthew Rowlinson

Biography

Matthew Rowlinson is a Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. His academic focus includes nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with particular interests in the writings of notable authors such as George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, John Keats, and Walter Scott. His work aims to understand how literature describes and resists the material, embodied world we inhabit. Currently, his research is centered on the emergence of the concept of human beings as a biological species in nineteenth-century writing. He is also involved in supervising graduate research in various fields, including nineteenth-century literature, literary theory, poetry, poetics, rhetoric, the intersections of literature with economics, and animal studies.

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