English and
Cultural Studies
The teaching and research provided through our department focus upon the critical interpretation, social and historical context, and creative expression of literature and culture. The department cultivates the understanding and skills critical to participation and success in a complex, multicultural and global world.
Faculty
Department Faculty
- Drea Brown - Assistant Professor
- Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao - Associate Professor
- Maura Coughlin - Professor
- Amber Day - Professor
- Janet Dean - Professor
- Cileine Izabel deLourenco - Professor
- William Graves III - Associate Professor
- Theresa A. Hasseler - Professor
- Jennifer Horan - Lecturer
- Steven Jablow - Lecturer
- Martha Kuhlman - Professor
- Matthew Neill Null - Lecturer
- Alex Perullo - Professor
- Thomas John Roach - Professor
- Elizabeth Walden - Professor
- Joan Zaretti - Lecturer
Adjunct Professors
- Julie Allen
- Mary Andersen
- James Beaver
- Stephanie Carter
- Matthew Clowney
- Amy Foley
- Jonathan Gibbs
- Donald Holder
- Kenneth Jolicoeur
- Rebecca Karni
- Sarah Kruse
- Liliya Krys-Burhoe
- Patricia C. Lange
- David Liao
- Karen A. Maguire
- Sarah H Maitland
- Ryan Marnane
- Maureen C. Masse
- Jean M. Plunkett
- Jacob Richman
- Erich Schumacher
- Victor Wildman

Matthew Neill Null
Lecturer, English and Cultural StudiesFaculty Suite G, Room 2105
mnull@bryant.edu
www.matthewneillnull.com
MFA, University of Iowa -- Iowa Writers' Workshop
BA, Washington & Lee University
BA, Washington & Lee University
Fiction Writing; Creative Nonfiction; the Novel; Family Narratives and Memoir; Short Fiction; Southern American Literature (Eudora Welty and William Faulkner); Literature in Translation; Environment and Place; Italian Literature; Central and Eastern European Literature; Latin-American Literature.
Creative Writing (Prose)
- Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
- Phi Beta Kappa
- 2016, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature
- 2015, Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
- 2014, St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award
- 2012, Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award
- 2011, Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellowship
- 2010, O. Henry Award
- 2010, Provost Postgraduate Fellowship in English
- 2009, Teaching-Writing Fellowship
Null, M. N., Allegheny Front: Stories, Sarabande, 2016.
Null, M. N., Honey from the Lion, Lookout Books, 2015.