Matt Burgess

Matt Burgess serves as Associate Professor and Department Chair of English and Creative Writing at Macalester College, where he teaches courses exploring narrative forms across literary and visual media. His office is located in Old Main Room 205, and he actively engages students through workshops and collaborative learning approaches.

Education:

• Dartmouth College (Undergraduate)
• University of Minnesota, MFA Program

Research and Creative Focus: Professor Burgess specializes in cross-cultural narrative traditions, with primary expertise in Fiction, International Storytelling, and Visual Narratives. His creative practice extends to Mythology and Folklore reinterpretation, Genre Writing innovation, and hybrid forms blending Creative Nonfiction with Poetry. His critically acclaimed literary crime novels demonstrate applied research in narrative structure and voice development, directly informing his pedagogical philosophy of nurturing authentic student expression through directed exercises and textual analysis.

Teaching Practice: He employs co-taught interdisciplinary courses like Graphic Novel (with Megan Vossler) and Baseball: History and Literature (with Ernesto Capello) to examine storytelling conventions through multiple disciplinary lenses, emphasizing historical context and formal experimentation in student work.