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Peter D. Mathews completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from Monash University in 2002. After teaching in the United States for nearly a decade, he joined the faculty at Hanyang University in 2010. A specialist in contemporary British and Australian fiction, he has published articles in some of the world’s leading academic journals. He is currently writing a monograph assessing the legacy of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
 

Research Areas
 

• Modern and contemporary British and Australian fiction
• Literary theory and criticism
• Literature and ethics

 
Selected Publications
 
“Embodied Art: A Reading of A.S. Byatt’s ‘Body Art’” English: Journal of the English Association (forthcoming) (A&HCI)
 
“Dynamic Tensions in A.S. Byatt’s ‘A Lamia in the Cévennes’” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59.2 (2018): 213-222. (A&HCI)
 
“Disillusionment at the Caffè Florian: Ishiguro’s ‘Cellists’ and the Destruction of Experience” Caesura: Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies 4.2 (2017): 17-30.
 
“‘What Are Novelists For?’ Atonement and the British Novel” Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 39.2 (2017): 11-28. (A&HCI)
 
“Unraveling A.S. Byatt’s ‘Racine and the Tablecloth’” Contemporary Women’s Writing 11.2 (2017): 221-238. (A&HCI)
 
“Gender, Power, and Satire in Will Self’s Cock and Bull” English: Journal of the English Association 66.253 (2017): 166-184. (A&HCI)
 
“Art, Beauty, and the Problem of Consciousness in Tim Winton’s Breath” Westerly 62.1 (2017): 219-230. (A&HCI)
 
“Who is My Neighbour?: Tim Winton’s ‘Aquifer’ and the Ghosts of Cloudstreet” Australian Literary Studies 32.1 (2017). <https://doi.org/10.20314/als.79ce443cbd> (A&HCI)
 
“The Reluctant Character of Mr. Darcy: Pride and Prejudice and the Rise of the Novel” Pride and Prejudice: A Bicentennial Bricolage. Ed. Caterina Colomba. Udine, Italy: Forum University Press. 2016: 119-134.
 
“The Morality Meme: Nietzsche, A Serious Man, and Jewish Enlightenment” Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 11.1 (2014): 63-81. (A&HCI)
 
“The Rise of the Fakumentary” The Journal of Literature and Film (문학과 영상) 15.1 (2014): 247-265.