Dr. Matt DeForrest is sitting for a formal portrait, but that doesn't stop him from wearing a purple shirt and tie to remind us that he's not just a professor and Board member, he's an author, husband, mentor, and sweet guy. He's bearded, bespectacled, and of European ancestory.

Matthew M. DeForrest, PhD

Dr. Matthew M. DeForrest is Interim Director of the Edward E. Crutchfield Center for Integrated Studies and Professor of English at Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU). His recent published works have appeared in The Yeats Journal of Korea, The Yeats Annual, W. B. Yeats’s A Vision: Explications and Contexts, and Tolkien Studies. His recent presentations include papers at 2022 and 2019 International Yeats Society Conference in Seoul, South Korea (virtually) and Paris, France, the 2018 International Conference on W. B. Yeats in Seoul, South Korea, and the 2018 Magnolia Moot Conference on literature and the fantastic in Charlotte, NC. 

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