Matthew Brophy
Professor
Communications, Arts & Humanities
Contact Information
Downingtown100 Bond Drive
Downingtown, PA 19335
484-237-6200
Room Number: 214
Phone: 484-237-6233
Contact Faculty
Greetings! My name is Matthew Brophy, and I have been teaching at DCCC since 2010. I mostly teach at the Downingtown Campus, but I also teach online classes. The classes I teach most frequently are ENG 100 and 112 (Composition I and II), but I also sometimes teach ENG 230 and 231 (American Literature I and II) as well as ENG 050 (Developmental English). In addition to teaching, I'm currently the Faculty Fellow for College-Wide Reading (www.dccc.edu/college-wide-reading), the co-chair of the First-Year Writing Committee, and a member of the Academic Affairs Committee. In my free time, I am a recreational long-distance runner, fiction writer, and insatiable consumer of books and movies.
Degrees
- Ph.D., English, Binghamton University, 2010
- M.A., English, Binghamton University, 2006
- B.A., Literature, Bard College, 2002
Papers
- “A Body of Work: Imperial Labor and the Writing of American Manhood in London's The Sea-Wolf” (2011)
- "Burlesquing America's Errand: 'Savage' Satire in Irving's History of New York and Melville's Confidence-Man" (2011)
- “Shadowing Afrikaner Nationalism: Jungian Archetypes, Incest, and the Uncanny in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf” (2006)
- “Our Year” (2006, short story)
- "The Source" (2002, short story)
Scholarly Interests
- The Teaching of Writing, 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Interdisciplinary American Studies, Gender Studies, Creative Writing