{"id":282,"date":"2017-10-13T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-english\/facultystaff\/mattburgess\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:27:42","slug":"mattburgess","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/facultystaff\/mattburgess\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Burgess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Burgess, a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota\u2019s MFA program, grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens. He is the author of the critically acclaimed literary crime novels DOGFIGHT, A LOVE STORY and UNCLE JANICE. In his courses at Macalester, he aims to work alongside his students, to help them discover and nurture their voices; then, through discussion, assigned reading, directed writing exercises, and workshops, encourage them to express that voice with force and conviction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Study<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiction<\/li>\n<li>International Storytelling<\/li>\n<li>Visual Narratives<\/li>\n<li>Mythology and Folklore<\/li>\n<li>Genre Writing<\/li>\n<li>Creative Nonfiction<\/li>\n<li>Poetry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fall 2025 Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ENGL 216-01 Graphic Novel (co-taught with Megan Vossler)<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 294-01 Baseball: History and Literature (co-taught with Ernesto Capello)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Spring 2026 Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ENGL 150-03: Introduction to Creative Writing<br \/>\nENGL 387-01: International Storytelling<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562,"template":"","class_list":["post-282","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/282\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}