Speaking Engagements

Matthew Pincus is an writer and storyteller who has presented on American literature and film.

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2018

America’s Necessary Fugitives: Depictions of the American South in Early Hollywood

Deep South in the Global South Conference, U of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, March 2018

2017

Ain’t Nothing But A Hound Dog: The Threat of Racial Mixing in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson

ALA Symposium on Regionalism and Place, New Orleans, September 2017

David Reading David: Lynch as Auteur of Sincerity

PCA/ACA National Conference, San Diego, April 2017

“Sootysouled Rascal”: Judge Holden’s Rendition of America’s Violent Democracy in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

Deep South in the Global South Conference, U of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, April 2017

The Ringleader of St. Petersburg: Tom Sawyer the Tycoon

SCMLA Conference, Dallas, November 2016

David Reading David: Lynch as Auteur of Sincerity

Literature/Film Association Conference, Glassboro, NJ, October 2016 [Travel Grant Recipient]

Lecture: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: The United States and Mexico

Jack Kerouac School Summer Writing Program, Boulder, CO, June 2015

About the talk

Matthew Pincus discusses the issues in Mexico of drug cartels and government cover-ups and how the issues relate to US foreign policy. Pincus compares events in Mexico to Álvaro Mutis’s work and the adventures of his character Maqroll.

Stein’s Exoskeletal Language: Embodied Desire in Disembodied Sociality

[Dis]embodied Poetics Conference, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, October 2014

“Call Me Darien,” and “What’s Your Plan?” Fiction Reading

[Dis]embodied Poetics Conference, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, October 2014

Matthew’s reading starts at 13:00