English Faculty - Matt Bondurant

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English Faculty - Matt Bondurant

Assistant Professor

Education:

• B.A. James Madison University (1993)
• M.A. James Madison University (1998)
• Ph.D. Florida State University (2003)

Teaching Areas:

• Fiction Writing
• Creative Writing
• Contemporary Fiction
• History of the Novel
• 19th Century American Literature
• Shakespeare

Publications:

• Novels:
  • The Wettest County in the World (working title) under contract: North America: Scribner, release date January 2009, French: L'Archipel, other languages pending
  • The Third Translation North America: Hyperion, Hardback April 2005, Paperback April 2006, United Kingdom: Hyperion, Spanish: Plaza y Janes (Random House), Italian: Sperling and Kupfer (Mondadori), Portuguese (Brazil): Distribuidora Record (Grupo Editorial Record), Catalan: Enciclopedia Catalana, S.A., Russian: AST Publishers, German: Random House (Bertelsmann), Serbian: Vega Publishing, Portuguese (Portugal): Estampa, French: L'Archipel, Hungarian: Gabo, Greek: Pontiki, Polish: Bellona, others pending
• Short Stories:
  • "Birthmark " Alaska Quarterly Review - forthcoming, Summer 2008
  • "Telemetry " Glimmer Train September 2005
  • "It Never Ends " The Hawaii Review Winter 2004
  • "The Two Lands " New England Review Spring 2003
  • "So Calm, So Vaporless, The World of Light " Gulf Coast Review 2003
  • "The Queen of Sparta " Prairie Schooner Winter 2001 - Bernice Slote Award
  • "Careful " The Baltimore Review Winter 2001
  • "Kept " The Madison Review Fall 2000
• Poetry
  • "Waltz " & "Poem For A Woman You Never Knew " The Notre Dame Review Winter 2007
  • "The Pathos of Charles Schultz " & "The Kite Eating Tree " Ninth Letter - forthcoming 2008
  • "Melodrama " Hiram Poetry Review - forthcoming 2008
• Non-Fiction:
  • "The Reluctant Wannabe: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dan Brown " The Northern Virginia Review Spring 2007
  • Big If - The Southeast Review Spring 2003
  • Big Fish - The Southeast Review Spring 2001

Contact Matt Bondurant

Office: Champlain Valley Hall 203
Phone: (518) 564-2427
E-mail: mbond002@plattsburgh.edu