Patricia A. Matthew

Patricia A. Matthew (introduction) is an English professor who teaches courses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature and culture at Montclair State University. A specialist in the history of the novel, she writes about a range of topics for scholars and the general public. Her work has been published in academic journals, and she has written about Jane Austen, Bridgerton, and Sanditon for The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, and Slate. The editor of the Oxford University Press Series “Race and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture,” she is a regular lecturer for the Jane Austen Society of North America, she is currently writing a book on sugar, abolition, and material culture.