Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry was born and raised in Rochester, NY. He holds both a BS and MA in English (earned from SUNY Brockport) and a PhD in Humanities (from the University of Texas at Dallas).

Matthew moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1997 to become a full-time faculty member of the English Department at Richland College. Currently, he currently teaches courses in Composition, African American Literature, and Cultural Studies.

In 2010, he was awarded a Fulbright and served that academic year as a Visiting Professor of American Studies at the University of Potsdam in Germany.

Matthew has published articles in African American Review, Critique, Popular Culture Review, Studies in Popular Culture, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College, among other academic journals.

His scholarship on The Simpsons has also appeared in two book collections: Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture (Wayne State UP, 2004) and Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American Popular Culture (U of Kentucky P, 2010).

He is most proud of the publication of his first book, The Simpsons, Satire, and American Culture (Palgrave, 2012), which is an outgrowth of his doctoral dissertation and of his many years of experience teaching with The Simpsons.