Matthew J. Smetona is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University. His research interests center on critical theory; Marxism; the history of political thought; and the history of the novel, especially the nineteenth-century European realist novel.
His most recent book, Recovering the Later Georg Lukács: A Study on the Unity of His Thought, was published in 2023 by the MIT Press. A précis of the book will be published in the Jahrbuch der Internationalen Georg-Lukács-Gesellschaft. The book has been reviewed in Rethinking Marxism and Socialist History.
His first book, Hegel’s Logical Comprehension of the Modern State, was published in 2013 by Lexington Books and reviewed in Perspectives on Politics. He is the author of peer-reviewed articles published in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Rethinking Marxism, Angelaki, Theoria, Telos, and Epoché; book chapters published in Georg Lukács and the Possibilities of Critical Social Ontology (Brill, 2019) and Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics (Routledge, 2018); a translation of an essay authored by Lukács from the German with an introduction forthcoming in Angelaki; and a book review published in The Philosophical Quarterly.
He serves on the editorial board of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities as a contributing editor, and he has served as a manuscript referee for the University of Michigan Press, Routledge, Historical Materialism, Rethinking Marxism, Theory & Event, European Journal of Political Theory, Constellations, Journal of Social Philosophy, Metodo, Moral Philosophy and Politics, and Political Research Quarterly. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Temple University.