Matthew Mullin
Ph.D.
- mmullin@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Early Modern British Literature; John Milton; Disability Studies.
Biography
Matthew Mullin is a Ph.D. candidate and a Presidential Fellow at Notre Dame. His research investigates conceptions of human identity and narratives of ability / disability in Early Modern England. His dissertation, entitled "Affirmative Estrangement," seeks to locate moments in Elizabethan and Caroline literature when disability representation plays an affirmative role in the act of identity formation, agency, and resistance.
Conference Presentations:
"The Spiritual Biopolitics of John Milton's Blindness." Renaissance Society of America conference, 2021 .
"'To Be Blind is Not Miserable; Not to be Able to Bear Blindness, That is Miserable': John Milton and the Experience of Disability in Samson Agonistes and Other Works." Newberry Library Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, 2020.
"Demarcations of Human Faciality in Milton's Comus and Paradise Lost." The Conference on John Milton, 2019.