Matt Hart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  His research and teaching focuses on contemporary British literature and the arts, modernism, and critical theory—with a particular interest in vernacular culture and state/nation relations.  Recent papers have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Postmodern Culture, Review, and essay collections on T. S. Eliot's international reception and Post-Imperial Englishness.  He is currently working on two book projects: Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Late Modernism and Vernacular Sovereignty and Late Britain, a collection of essays on British politics and culture since 1979.  Matt is a member and past co-director of OPENSOURCE Art, an alternative art space in downtown Champaign.  In 2006-07 he will be a Fellow of the Society of the Humanities at Cornell University.