Matthew Spellberg studies dreaming, in literature and beyond, with an emphasis on the subjective aspects of dreamt experience, including forms of attention, physical possibilities and impossibilities within dream-life, and the nature of social interaction in dreaming. His work includes studying novel ways to record and share dreams, as well as running seminars in which participants work to describe and imagine each other’s dreams.
His dissertation, Dreaming and Social Life in the Age of the Novel, is about the social aspect of dreaming – that is, how full of people most dreams are – and its influence on European literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Matthew Spellberg’s other interests include the modern European novel, oral poetry, and the history of opera and theater. He holds an IHUM fellowship from the Council of the Humanities at Princeton, and is an active translator from French, German and Polish. He has been a preceptor at Princeton for a course on literature and the law taught by Peter Brooks, and an assistant for an experimental course on theater taught by Caryl Emerson and Tim Vasen. He has taught seven semesters for Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative, and serves on its Leadership Committee.
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