On the Absence of trees

Matthew Roberts

On the Absence of Trees

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Matthew Roberts is Assistant Professor and Librarian for Literature and Languages at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University. His scholarly publications examine the theatrical representation of trauma and appear in several journals, including Comparative Drama, Modern Drama, and New Theatre Quarterly. He is the editor of the Harold Pinter Review and an alumnus of the 2022 Community of Writers Poetry Workshop.