Matthew Goldie
Professor of English Email: mgoldie@rider.edu
Phone Number: 609-895-5586
Department Name:
English
Office Location:
Fine Arts 336

Faculty Office Hours

Mailing Address:
2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Role: 
Faculty
Title: 
Professor of English
Email: 
mgoldie@rider.edu
Phone Number: 
609-895-5586
Department Name: 
English
Mailing Address: 
2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Office Location: 
Fine Arts 336

Education

April 1999 Ph.D. English. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) 
Dissertation: “The Feynyng Aesthetic in Fifteenth-Century English Literature.” 
Adviser: Steven F. Kruger
May 1999  Certificate in Medieval Studies. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
June 1991 M.F.A. Creative Writing (Poetry). Brooklyn College, CUNY
Thesis: “Pass,” Adviser: Louis A. Asekoff
October 1987 B.A. English and Philosophy. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand


Teaching

2010
 Professor, Rider University
 2004–

 Associate Professor, Rider University.

  • Department of English: Medieval Literature, History of the English Language, Global Literature, Creative Writing: Poetry, Major Poets, The Poem, Advanced Prose Style, Methods of Literary Analysis, Composition through Literature, Research Writing, Introduction to Film
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies Program: Feminist Literary Criticism
  • Baccalaureate Honors Program: The Arts of Memory
  • American Studies Program: American Poetry and Poetics
  • College of Continuing Studies
  • Westminster Choir College: Special Topic: Film Memory, Major Poets, World Literature
 2000–2004  Assistant Professor I and II, Rider University.
 Department of English.


Publications - Academic

Books

 

 2010   The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices
  Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
  New York: Routledge
 2003   Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook
  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers (second edition 2006)

Articles and Chapters

 

 2009  Case Studies in Reading I: Key Primary Literary Texts. The Medieval British Literature Handbook. London: Continuum.
 2008  “The Rhetoric of Grief: Hiroshima mon amour.” Special Issue: Time and the Arts. English Language Notes 46.1.
 2004  “Thomas Hoccleve.” The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. The Literary Dictionary Company. <http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/>
 2002  “Audiences for Language-Play in Middle English Drama.” Traditions and Transformations in Late Medieval England. Ed. Douglas Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove, and A. Compton Reeves. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
 1999  “Psychosomatic Illness and Identity in London, 1416–1421: Hoccleve’s Complaint and Dialogue with a Friend.” Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11.1 (Spring).


Reviews

 

 2009  (with Paula J. Massood) Pam Cook. Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2005. Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
 2007  Steve Ellis, ed. Chaucer: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
 2004  D. Vance Smith. Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary. Medieval Cultures, Volume 33. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Yearbook of Langland Studies.
   Federico, Sylvia. New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages. Medieval Cultures Ser. 36. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature.
 2003  Nicholas Perkins. Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes: Counsel and Constraint. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001. The Medieval Review [online].
 2002  Sarah Beckwith. Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. The Medieval Review [online].
 2000  Thomas Hoccleve. The Regiment of Princes. Ed. Charles R. Blyth. TEAMS Middle English Ser. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan U, 1999. The Medieval Review [online].


Publications - Poetry

 

 2007  “Here’s the Nose and Here’s the Belly,” “The Class of 1982.” Sport: New Zealand New Writing 35.
 2004  “Apostrophe.” Sport: New Zealand New Writing 32
 1987-2003  New Zealand journals:
 Salient, Writings II, Sport 2, Landfall: a New Zealand Quarterly  182, Poetry New Zealand 7, Poetry New Zealand 9, Landfall 197
   Australian journals: Meanjin

 U.S. journals: The Brooklyn Review 8 and 9
 1992  Sheer. New York: The Kraine Gallery, 1992


Fellowships, Other Scholarly Activities 

  • 2008 Rider University Summer Research Reimbursement
  • 2007 Rider University Summer Research Fellowship and Reimbursement Referee, Florilegium journal
  • 2006 Rider University Research Leave
  • 2004 Rider University Summer Research Fellowship and Reimbursement
  • 2003 Huntington Library-British Academy Fellowship Referee, Blackwell Publishers
  • 2002 Rider University Summer Research Fellowship and Reimbursement Rider University Center for Innovative Instruction: Instructional Innovation Program
  • 2001 Rider University Summer Research Fellowship and Reimbursement Consultant, The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Joseph Gibaldi, sixth edition
  • 2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, “Chaucer Ancient and Modern,” Pennsylvania State University

Conferences: Presentations and Organization

2009 

  • (October) “This Island Earth: Insularity in Ancient and Medieval Literature, Science, and Maps.” Queens College, New York [invited presenter], and Rider University, New Jersey.
  • (March) “The Idea of the Antipodes.” The Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey [invited presenter].
  • (March) “The Antipodes: Maps and Travel Literature about Another World.” The Medieval Club of New York, New York [invited presenter].
  • (February) “The Global South on Medieval Maps.” The Hidden and the Revealed, Rider University, New Jersey.

2008 

  • (December) “The Antipodes: Rethinking the Medieval Geographic and Cartographic Evidence.” 7th Biennial International Conference: Alter Orbis, ANZAMEMS (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
  • (May) “Earthly Motions: The Antipodes and Antipodeans.” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
  • (January) “The Global Gift: Vulnerability from City to City.” Globalization and Violence, International Symposium on Visual Culture and the Urban Environment, University of London Institute in Paris.

2007 

  • (September) “Island Theory: Antipodean Deterritorialization.” Postcolonial Islands: Geographic, Theoretical and Human, Queen’s Postcolonial Research Forum International Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast.
  • (March) “The Rhetoric of Grief: Hiroshima Mon Amour.” Representations of the ‘Other’ in Film and Theater, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center, West Chester University of Pennyslvania.

2006 

  • (December) “Lucy in the South: Antipodean Paradise in Medieval Texts.” Modern Language Association Congress, Philadelphia. 
  • (July) Emotions (E-Seminar and Panel), Fifteenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Fordham University, New York [organizer and chair].
  • (May) Women in Medieval Mediterranean Society: In Memory of Elka Klein, 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo [organizer]. Encyclopedic Langland, 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo [chair].

2005 

  • (May) Cities and Trauma, 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo [organizer and chair].

2004 

  • (July) Home, New Chaucer Society Congress, University of Glasgow, Glasgow [organizer and chair].


2003 

  • (July) “Urban Critique on a Langlandian Scale: A Tradition’s Registers.” 3rd International Conference on Piers Plowman: University of Birmingham.
  • (May) “Sticky Lips and Lunatic Talk: The Advice of a London Style.” 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
  • (May) History and Literature: Theorizing Intersections between Late-medieval English History and Literature, 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo [organizer and chair].

2002 

  • (July) “Counseling Counselors: The Clerk’s Tale in the Fifteenth Century.” New Chaucer Society Thirteenth International Congress, University of Colorado at Boulder.
  • (April) “Languishing Lancastrian London: A City Faults a King.” Medieval Academy of America 77th Annual Meeting, New York Grand Hyatt Hotel.

2001 

  • (May) “‘Available Order’ and Thomas Hoccleve’s Autobiographical Style.” 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
  • (May) Fifteenth-Century Literature Panel, Third Fifteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [organizer].
  • (May) “Personality in History: Thomas Hoccleve ‘where trouthe shuld be ateynte.’” Third Fifteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • (March) “Plastic Positions: Counselors in the 1381 Rebellion and The Canterbury Tales.” Marking Time, Mapping Space, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

2000 

  • (May) “‘In the Plite of Scarsetee’: Scribal Poverty in Early Fifteenth-Century London.” 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.


Value: Rider University

 2008–2010   Advisor, Venture magazine, Department of English
 Advisor, Horizons magazine
 Coordinator, Faculty Lecture Series
 Executive Committee, Department of English
 Theory Search Committee, Department of English
 Gender and Sexuality Studies Program member
 Baccalaureate Honors Program member
 American Studies Program member
 2000-2007  Promotion and Tenure Committee
 Academic Integrity Committee
 Advisor, Venture magazine, Department of English
 Seventeenth-Century Literature Search Committee, Department of English
 Gender Studies Program member
 Baccalaureate Honors Program member
 2003-2004  Liberal Arts and Sciences Academic Policy Committee
 Treasurer, Rider Chapter, American Association of University Professors
 English Department Handbook
 English Department Web site
 Committee on the Major, Department of English
 Ad hoc Committee on Plagiarism, Department of English
 Baccalaureate Honors Program member
 2002-2003  Liberal Arts and Sciences Academic Policy Committee
 Treasurer, Rider Chapter, American Association of University Professors
 Chair, Composition Committee, Department of English
 Committee on the Major, Department of English
 Baccalaureate Honors Program member
 “Memory’s Places: Memorials and Their Meanings.” The Present-Day Club, Princeton
 Presenter, Men Teaching Feminism: Pedagogical Issues, Efffs: Every First Friday  Feminist Scholarship, Gender Studies
 2001-2002  Mankind, Student Center Theater
 English Department Handbook
 Chair, Composition Committee, Department of English
 Committee on the Major, Department of English
 “Memory’s Places: Memorials and their Meanings.” The Lunch Box, College of  Continuing Studies
 Presenter, Faculty Development Day
 2000-2001  The Second Shepherds Pageant, Yvonne Fine Arts Theater
 Presenter, Faculty Development Day


Value: Other

 2005-2007  President, Medieval Club of New York
 2003-2005  Vice-President, Medieval Club of New York
 2003–2004  Associate Member of the Columbia University Seminar on Medieval Studies


Professional Affiliations

 2001  New Chaucer Society
   Modern Language Association
   Society for Cinema and Media Studies
 1995  Medieval Academy of America
   Medieval Club of New York
 1996  Fifteenth-Century Society
   Lollard Society
 1990  Modern Language Association of America