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Matt Paproth received his PhD from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in May 2006. His major area is contemporary British fiction, and his dissertation, Modernist Authors, Postmodernist Writers: Joyce, Beckett, Rushdie, discusses modernist and postmodernist elements of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Salman Rushdie. Recently, he has published essays on Zadie Smith and Samuel Beckett; these can be found in Zadie Smith: Critical Essays and Drama and the Postmodern: Assessing the Limits of Metatheatre, respectively.

In his spare time, he writes a blog for pop culture website PopMatters.com, which can be found at www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/569

For more information on Matt Paproth, visit www.lcc.gatech.edu/~mpaproth3/web.html