Matthew Leggatt

Matthew Leggatt is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature. He is author of the monograph Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror (Routledge, 2018) and editor of the collection Was it Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television (SUNY Press, 2022). He has also published a number of journal articles and book chapters and is the editor of the forthcoming collection Wastelands and Wonderlands: Essays on Utopian and Dystopian Film and Literature (SUNY Press, 2025) and Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2026). Matthew teaches primarily in the fields of 20th and 21st century culture, specialising in popular American literature, film, and television. He received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2013 and has experience teaching English as a foreign language and English for Academic Purposes at the University of Southampton before he joined Winchester.