Profile Information
Matt Hooley
Assistant Professor
Contact
Office: 317 Strode
Email: mhooley@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D. English and Native American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A. English, University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A. English, Carleton College
Courses
Environmental Humanities, Native Studies, US Colonialism Studies
Matt Hooley’s research and teaching interests include Indigenous literary and visual arts modernisms; the racial and gendered project of US colonialism; the intersection of aesthetics, settler colonialism, and US environmentalism; theories and practices of decolonization; and cultural politics of the everyday. He is currently at work on two book projects—Infrastructures of Belonging: Native Modernism and U.S. Cultures of Extraction and Drought Colonialism and the Aesthetics of Settler Environmentalism.
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
“Toxic Recognition: Coloniality and Ecocritical Attention,” in No Place, Like Home: New Essays in Ecopoetics (University of Iowa Press, 2018)
“Reading Vulnerably: Indigeneity and the Scale of Harm” in Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times (Penn State Press, 2017)
“We Are All Related: An Interview with David Treuer.” Los Angeles Review of Books (January 14, 2013)
“The Autoethnography of William Whipple Warren.” Wicazo Sa Review 27.2 (Spring, 2012): 75-98
Reviews & Interviews
“Climate at the Threshold.” Antipode (May 2019)
Review of Whereas by Layli Long Soldier. 4Columns.org (January 2017)
Review of Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement (Eds. Alan. R Velie and A. Robert Lee). American Indian Culture and Research Journal (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2014)
Review of The Round House by Louise Erdrich. Chicago Tribune (January 4, 2013)
