Matthew Rickard

Assistant Professor

Education

Research and Teaching Interests

Bio

Matt Rickard is assistant professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He writes about the literary history of Renaissance Europe, with a focus on poetry and poetics in the seventeenth century. He’s currently finishing a book manuscript called ‘Probability: A Literary History, 1479–1700’. Articles may be found in English Literary History, Studies in Philology, and elsewhere.

Before Notre Dame, Matt was a Mellon Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis and, further back, a graduate student at Princeton, where he co-authored and co-edited the satirical Keywords; for Further Consideration (Princeton University Press, 2018). Inquiries are welcome from students at every level.