Matthew Cormier
He / Him / Il
Matthew Cormier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Université de Moncton. He obtained his MA in Canadian Comparative Literature from U de Moncton and his PhD in English from the University of Alberta before accepting a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto prior to his appointment. His work has appeared in numerous books and journals in Canada, the US, and Europe. His current research focuses on recent apocalyptic fiction in Canada.
Photo credit: Philippe Lanteigne
Sessions in which Matthew Cormier participates
Wednesday 30 April, 2025
Moncton—or, as poet Marc Chamberlain calls it in his recent collection, Socialite (2024), “Moncton madone”—has long served as a muse, a formative urban socialscape, for Acadian writers, including Guy Arsenault, Gérald Leblanc, and France Daigle, among numerous others. But these writers go beyond the literal cartography of the city: they also, in the words of Daigle, make it a “ville du monde,” in that they bring to their literary unive...