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About Matthew C. Nickel, Ph.D.
Matthew C. Nickel is Associate Professor of English at Misericordia University (Dallas, PA). He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is the author of Hemingway's Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway. He is also a poet and editor, and his writing on American and British literature has appeared in a number of journals and scholarly volumes.
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A Time to Read Nicolas Diat’s “A Time to Die”

March 25, 2020 Matthew C. Nickel, Ph.D. 5

In the age of COVID-19, death has become a daily subject around the dinner table, in the grocery store, and at a social distance even at the gas station. We are now constantly reminded in […]

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The Resurrection stories are replete with people failing to recognize Jesus until he says or does something evocative, puzzling even serious Christians. Skeptics use these appearances to suggest that Resurrection witnesses succumbed to a kind […]

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