Matthew Rubery, 2018–2019

Matthew Rubery (Birkelund Fellow) made substantial progress on his book manuscript, Reader’s Block: Testimonies of Neurological Reading Disorders. He also finished editing contributions to Further Reading, an essay collection he is coediting for Oxford University Press’s “Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature” series. In addition, he wrote “Book Audio,” an essay to be published in a collection titled The Unfinished Book. Rubery is professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London.