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Research
Research interests
- Nineteenth-century literature and culture
- Oceanic humanities
- Waste and rubbish
- Empire and post-colonial studies
- Environmental humanities聽
Current research
Following the publication of All at Sea in 2022, Matt has begun work on two new projects. The first, a new edition of Frederick Marryat's Mr. Midshipman Easy, has received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust. The second, provisionally titled 鈥楩lotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, Litter: Marine Refuse in 19th-Century Literature and Culture鈥, will trace the continuities and discontinuities between nineteenth-century and present-day attitudes to sea refuse, revealing the beginnings of a contemporary social, ecological, and legal problem.
Matt is on the editorial board of the Journal of Victorian Culture.
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Teaching
In the academic year 2021/22, Matt is teaching on the followng undergraduate modules:
- The Act of the Essay (first year; core module; convenor)
- American Gothic (third year; option module; convenor)
- Fantasists, Fanatics, and Reformers: British Literature in the Nineteenth Century (second year; option module; co-convenor)
- The Humanities, the Human, and the Non-Human (first year; core module)
- Victorian Feelings (second year; option module; convenor)
Matt contributes teaching to various MA courses as well.
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Biography
Matt Kerr is Associate Professor of British Literature from 1837 to 1939. Before joining Southampton in 2015, he taught at the University of Oxford, where he also completed his doctorate. Matt is a specialist in Victorian literature, with an interest in the blue humanities. He is the author of The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language: All at Sea (Oxford University Press, 2022) and co-editor of Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2018; paperback, 2020). New projects include a study of literature and marine waste in the nineteenth century, and a critical edition of Captain Frederick Marryat鈥檚 novel Mr Midshipman Easy. Matt is from Vancouver, Canada.
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