Corinne Matthews

Corinne Matthews is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida, alongside degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on consent, agency, sexuality, and genre in children’s and young adult literature, with a monograph under development titled The Fantasy of Consent: Sex, Sexual Assault, and Rape Culture in Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy. She co-hosts the podcast Sex. Love. Literature., exploring representations of intimacy in media.

Education: Ph.D. in English (University of Florida, 2023); M.S.E.E. (Southern Methodist University, 2014); dual B.S.E.E. and B.A. in English (Southern Methodist University, 2013).

Research interests include Eastern European representation in Western media, public humanities, and intersections of STEM and literature. Awards include a Fulbright Grant (2014-15) and multiple academic honors. Teaching experience spans engineering communication, gender studies, and children’s literature analysis.

Grants & Awards: Center for European Studies Course Development Grant (2023), Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (declined, 2020), and multiple teaching excellence recognitions. Active in professional organizations including the Children’s Literature Association.

Labs/Teams: Co-founder of Sex. Love. Literature. podcast; Mock Caldecott Awards founder (University of Florida).