Matthew Mullin

Matthew Mullin is a recent English PhD graduate from Notre Dame. His research investigates narratives of physical disability in Early Modern England, focusing on authors and characters who embrace and affirm physical difference as a generative aspect of identity formation. His dissertation, entitled "Destabilizing Disability: Performance and Genre on the Early Modern Stage and Page," locates literary and performative moments when disability representation plays an affirmative role in self-fashioning, agency, and resistance to negative stereotyping. In addition to his work at Notre Dame, Matthew also serves as an adjunct professor at Westville State Prison with the Moreau College Initiative, a college-in-prison program sponsored by Holy Cross College in partnership with Notre Dame Programs for Education in Prison (NDPEP).