Matt Moore
@mattmo-washu.bsky.social
PhD student in English Lit at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Psychoanalysis, Marxism, 19th and early 20th century. MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University.
Spoke about my paper on wooden performances, ecology, and Twin Peaks last night.
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Spoke about my paper on wooden performances, ecology, and Twin Peaks last night.
Ever contemplated the garage as an object? A container for holding brokenness? Well read my essayette on the garage just published in the essay series Object Lessons: Impressions in the Pittsburgh Review of Books!
Garage - Pittsburgh Review of Books
The average nine-to-fiver finds solace in a day off. My father, he filled the paltry time of his leisure in the garage.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ever contemplated the garage as an object? A container for holding brokenness? Well read my essayette on the garage just published in the essay series Object Lessons: Impressions in the Pittsburgh Review of Books!
First year of my PhD was a success. I was awarded second place in the Cornelison prize for best graduate student paper and earned second place in the Neureuther essay contest for best essays on bibliophilia and book collecting. You can read that here: openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcont...
openscholarship.wustl.edu
May 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
First year of my PhD was a success. I was awarded second place in the Cornelison prize for best graduate student paper and earned second place in the Neureuther essay contest for best essays on bibliophilia and book collecting. You can read that here: openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcont...
WashU's Ampersand magazine interviewed me about my essay for Belt Magazine and my experience in the Program in Public Scholarship directed by Christopher Schaberg!
Graduate student Matthew Moore shares his personal take on public scholarship
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May 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
WashU's Ampersand magazine interviewed me about my essay for Belt Magazine and my experience in the Program in Public Scholarship directed by Christopher Schaberg!
Lacan, Seminar XX: “Nothing forces anyone to enjoy except the superego. The superego is the imperative of jouissance—Enjoy!”
February 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Lacan, Seminar XX: “Nothing forces anyone to enjoy except the superego. The superego is the imperative of jouissance—Enjoy!”
My recent essay just published in Belt Magazine!
“How do you forget,” my father asks, “to put gas in your car?”
Notes on fatherhood and petroleum in “On Running Out of Gas in Rural Missouri” by Matthew Moore @mattmo-washu.bsky.social.
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Notes on fatherhood and petroleum in “On Running Out of Gas in Rural Missouri” by Matthew Moore @mattmo-washu.bsky.social.
beltmag.com/on-running-o...
On Running Out of Gas in Rural Missouri
Notes on fatherhood and petroleum
beltmag.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My recent essay just published in Belt Magazine!
Love that fast food napkins come pre-greased
December 17, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Love that fast food napkins come pre-greased
Coco and Chewy in a Twin Peaks rewatch
December 16, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Coco and Chewy in a Twin Peaks rewatch
Over the summer I wrote a piece on why libertarians are perverts and the contradictions of freedom under capitalism.
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The Perversion of Liberty: Libertarianism and the Crisis of Argentina
In what was rumored as a state of inconsolable grief, Javier Milei ordered four lab-grown clones of Conan, the Argentinian president’s dead English Mastiff. Bearing the names Robert, Lucas, Murray, an...
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November 28, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Over the summer I wrote a piece on why libertarians are perverts and the contradictions of freedom under capitalism.
sublationmedia.com/the-perversi...
sublationmedia.com/the-perversi...
Coco has repurposed the Bard as a pillow. I can attest: Norton Anthologies do make suitable pillows in a bind.
November 20, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Coco has repurposed the Bard as a pillow. I can attest: Norton Anthologies do make suitable pillows in a bind.
A little over a year ago, I published my first piece in Of Rust and Glass. A short essay reflecting on the soundscape of Industrial music, the ruins of the deindustrialized Midwest, and the obsolescence of my father’s labor of repair.
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
A little over a year ago, I published my first piece in Of Rust and Glass. A short essay reflecting on the soundscape of Industrial music, the ruins of the deindustrialized Midwest, and the obsolescence of my father’s labor of repair.