Dr. Matt Paproth received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale in 2006 and worked as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech from 2007-2010. In 2010, Paproth joined the faculty at GGC, where he teaches composition and British literature courses. His thematic composition courses have covered topics such as writing rock and roll, eating ethically, postmodernist revision, and James Joyce’s Ulysses. He has published essays on the writing of Samuel Beckett and Zadie Smith, and he has delivered conference presentations on Irish rock music, the TV series Veronica Mars, the writing of Jonathan Safran Foer, and the films Once, Beckett on Film, and U2:3D.