About

Matt is a literary historian, writer, and curator. He is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at Newcastle University and is the current Mary Robertson Fellow at the Huntington Library, Los Angeles.

His PhD project focuses on the sixteenth-century book trade, and he has written extensively on the early modern world, including work for BBC Radio 4’s You’re Dead to Me, RTÉ, History Today, Exeunt Magazine, and Cambridge University Library. His work has also been featured on RTÉ Radio 1.  

Matt has curated exhibitions at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Prison, and Spike Island Museum and has had work exhibited at Ireland's annual Culture Night.

He trained as a secondary school English teacher and taught in the UK for a decade. His current work as an educator includes an ongoing outreach project in collaboration with Crawford Art Gallery, artist-educator Daniel Sexton, and Cork Prison. The project is designed to encourage the creativity of the men who live in the prison and culminates each year in an exhibition at a museum or gallery space in Ireland.   

Matt is the co-founder of award-winning theatre company, Gameshow. As a theatre-maker, he has created plays, performances, and installations, several of which have toured the UK.

He lives in West Cork, Ireland.