Dr. Matthew Guinn

Education

• B.A., University of Georgia
• M.A., University of Mississippi
• Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Dr. Matthew Guinn holds a Ph.D. in American Literature with a minor specialization in Southern Literature. He is the author of novels The Resurrectionist and The Scribe, both published by W.W. Norton, and an academic book published by the University Press of Mississippi, After Southern Modernism.

Dr. Guinn is an avid outdoorsman and musician. He has taught at Belhaven seven years and is a regular panel moderator at the Mississippi Book Festival. He and his wife Kristen are active parishioners at St. Columb’s Church and the parents of two grown children. They live with their three dogs in Ridgeland.

Areas of Expertise

• The Novel
• Short Fiction
• Southern Literature
• Creative Nonfiction/Memoir
• Religion and Literature

Teaching Focus

• Prose Workshops
• Advanced Fiction Courses (the novel and short stories)
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Readings for Writers
• Capstone (senior thesis course sequence)

Publications and Professional Activity

• The Scribe (2015)
• The Resurrectionist (2013)
• After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South (2000)
• Novel and memoir in progress
• “Real Country,” memoir published online in The Bitter Southerner
• Book reviewer, Clarion-Ledger newspaper