Matthew C. Borushko
I am a writer and scholar living in Massachusetts.Professor of English / Stonehill CollegeBA Michigan / PhD BU
NEWS
4.1.25
"Romanticism in Ogallala" is out in First of the Month.
2.3.25
I have a new short story published in BULL: "Little Miss Hampton Beach"


SELECTED WORKS
"Romanticism in Ogallala" | First of the Month | April 2205
"Little Miss Hampton Beach." | BULL | February 2025
"On John Prine: Meditations for April 7th" | First of the Month | April 2024
"Levon's Blues" | First of the Month | March 2024
"Out of his Mind" | The Twin Bill | March 2023
"On Adult Sadness" | the Under Review 7 | Winter 2023
"Politics, Petitions, and Violence in Shelley's Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson" | The Keats-Shelley Review | 2020
"Dylan and Shelley" | World of Bob Dylan Conference | 2019
"Perils of the Sublime: Ideology in Shelley's 'Alastor'" | European Romantic Review | 2017
The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form | 2015
"History, Historicism, and Agency at Byron's Ismail" | ELH | 2014
"The Politics of Subreption: Resisting the Sublime in Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'" | Studies in Romanticism | 2013
"Violence and Nonviolence in Shelley's Mask of Anarchy" | Keats-Shelley Journal | 2010

AWARDS ETC.
Keats-Shelley Association of America Essay Prize | 2013
Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grant | K-SAA | 2013
Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry | Hopwood Awards Program | 2001

MUSIC
The Patrons | Boston | 2002-2008
All That is Tied (2006) | writing, guitar
Smoke After Smoke (2008) | writing, guitar