Dr. Matthew Calihman

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Education

• PhD, 2005, Washington University in St. Louis

Teaching

• ENG 235 Critical Approaches to Literature
• ENG 289 Literature, Culture, and Social Justice
• ENG 351 Survey of American Literature, Part II
• ENG 354 Ethnic American Literature
• ENG 355 African American Literature
• ENG 517/617 American Novel
• ENG 554/654 Topics in Ethnic American Literature
• ENG 558/661 Major American Authors
• ENG 559/659 Modern American Literature
• ENG 758 Seminar in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Professional experience

Selected publications

• Calihman, Matthew. “Langston Hughes and the International Workers Order.” From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954, edited by Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker. Cornell University Press, 2025, pp. 122-44.
• Calihman, Matthew. “African American Political Poetries.” The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900, edited by Daniel Morris. Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 152-66
• Calihman, Matthew. “Black Power and Black Arts.” Ralph Ellison in Context, edited by Paul Devlin.  Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 167-76. 
• Calihman, Matthew and Gerald Early, editors. Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman. Modern Language Association, 2018.
• Calihman, Matthew, Tracy Floreani, and A Yemisi Jimoh, editors. Ralph Ellison, special issue of American Studies, vol. 54, no. 3, 2015.
• Calihman, Matthew. “Black Power beyond Black Nationalism: John A. Williams, Cultural Pluralism, and the Popular Front.” MELUS, vol. 34, no. 1, 2009, pp. 139-62.
• Calihman, Matthew. “‘Where Are the Italian Anarchists?’: Amiri Baraka and the Usable Pasts of the Immigrant Left.” Voices in Italian Americana, vol. 18, no. 2, 2007, pp. 79-89.

Research and professional interests

• African American literature
• American literature
• American studies
• Race and ethnicity in the U.S.