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Matt Tierney is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State University, directing the Digital Culture and Media Initiative and serving as Honors Adviser. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University (2012), an M.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz (2006), and an A.B. in American Studies from Cornell University (1999).
His research focuses on the intersection of technology, media, and social movements, emphasizing critiques of technocapitalism, cultural consequences of technology, and postaesthetics. Key works include *Dismantlings: Words Against Machines in the American Long Seventies* (2019) and *What Lies Between: Void Aesthetics and Postwar Post-Politics* (2015). His writing appears in journals like *diacritics*, *Cultural Critique*, and *Postmodern Culture*.
Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate levels, covering topics like mass culture, high-tech capitalism, and visual literacy. He co-directs the English Honors Program and actively engages in public discourse on technology and literature through interviews and initiatives.
Research interests include: Luddism, cyberculture, race/gender theory, and labor studies. Notable articles address post-movement art, 21st-century utopianism, and critical cyberculture.
