a William Matthew McCarter, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: William Matthew McCarter

William Matthew McCarter, PhD, is a professor of English at Southwestern Illinois College. His work sits at the intersection of Southern culture, media rhetoric, and working-class representation. He publishes both peer-reviewed scholarship and public criticism, and hosts the “Scholar in the Holler” project connecting rural arts, film, and letters. Recent public writing includes “I Checked My Privilege, It Wasn’t There” in Splice.