Matthew Paul Smith

Matthew Paul Smith is an instructor in the English Department at Tulane and specializes in 19th century American literature, particularly the literature of Louisiana. He has two forthcoming edited collections: The Cambridge Companion to New Orleans Literature (Cambridge UP) and Cross Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Japan: Foreigners Within the Samurai Class (Routledge). His recent publications include a chapter on George Washington Cable in New Orleans: A Literary History (Cambridge UP) and a journal article on aesthetics, narrative, and plantation tourism in Southern Quarterly. He is a native of New Iberia, Louisiana.