MATTHEW ZIPF

Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
M.L.S., University of Chicago Law School
B.A., Columbia University

2025 Adam Zagajewski Prize, University of Chicago
2025 Nonfiction Fellow, Vermont Studio Center
2024–25 Graduate Lecturer, Pozen Center for Human Rights
2023–24 Ernst Freund Fellow in Law and Philosophy

Research support from the American Historical Association, the Pozen Center for Human Rights, Friends of the Princeton University Library, and the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression.

Art Criticism

“Neglected Seasons,” The Threepenny Review (Spring 2025).
“‘It Was Kind of Cynical, But It Worked’: An Interview with Jack Pierson,” Gulf Coast (Winter/Spring 2025).
“Peter Hujar’s Backstage Portraits,” The Threepenny Review (Summer 2024).

Reporting

“Seoul – Pyeongyang – Paris,” Liberties (forthcoming).

Three Portraits of Renata Adler

“Do Something, Take Pains,” The Sewanee Review (forthcoming).
“In the Matter of the Commas,” The American Scholar (Spring 2025).
“A Girl’s Hair Caught Fire,” Liberties (Summer 2024).

Academic Publications

“Equality as a Feint: Philip Roth and Alimony Law,” in Connubial Fictions: The Evolution of American Marriage in Law and Literature, Oxford UP (forthcoming).

The best way to support my work is to follow my Substack. It’s free. You can reach me at zipf [at] uchicago [dot] edu.