I'm Matthew, a back-of-the-book indexer.
I write indexes for art books, cookbooks,
and scholarly books (critical theory, philosophy, queer studies, theology).
With a background in user experience and media arts,
my indexes strive to be both useful and beautiful.
You can reach me at matthew@matthewmaclellan.com.
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— Sharday Mosurinjohn, Assistant Professor at Queen's University and author of The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
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— Samuel Clowes Huneke, Assistant Professor at George Mason University and author of States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
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— Adele Reinhartz, Professor at the University of Ottawa and author of Bible and Cinema: An Introduction (Routledge, 2022).
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Selected Work

titles hyperlinked lead to previews of index on Google Books or Amazon (as of 07/24)




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Art Books

Kangas, Matthew. Femina Lucida: The Art of Nancy Mee. Utopian Heights Studios, 2024.
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See also titles under scholarly books related to art history/visual studies.

Cookbooks

Baxter, Brian. In the Catbird Seat. Turner Publishing, 2024.

Locke-Hardy, Corrie. The Revolution Will Be Well Fed. Raspberry Bow Press, 2024.

Roekel, Blake Van and Stefanie LeJeunesse. Genuine Skagit Cooking. Raspberry Bow Press, 2024.

Scholarly Books

Abman, Zamira. Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan. University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Astourian, Laure. The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Alain Resnais, and the Turn towards 1960s French Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2024.University of Michigan Press, 2023. ‍

‍Buchler, Michael and Gregory John Decker. Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater. University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Burton, Emmanuelle, Judy Goldsmith, Nicholas Mattei, Cory Siler, and Sara-Jo Swiatek. Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging through Science Fiction. MIT Press, 2023.

Dauber, Jonathan V. Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022.

Dewhurst, Marit. Social Justice Art Education: Second Edition. Harvard Education Press, 2023.

Doney, Skye. The Persistence of the Sacred: German Catholic Pilgrimage, 1832–1937. University of Toronto Press, 2022.

Dunbar-Hester, Christina. Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Flanagan, Brenda A. and Hana Waisserová. Women's Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia. Lexington Books, 2023.

Gupta, Atreyee (ed.). Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History. Duke University Press, 2025 (forthcoming).

Huneke, Samuel Clowes. States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. University of Toronto Press, 2022.

Kong, Travis S. K. Sexuality and the Rise of China. Duke University Press, 2023.

LaPinta, Linda Elisabeth. Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce. Kentucky University Press, 2023.

Marks, Laura U. The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos. Duke University Press, 2024.

Mosurinjohn, Sharday C. The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022.

Orr, Celeste E. Cripping Intersex. University of British Columbia Press, 2022.

Raizen, Karen T. Pulcinella's Brood: Popular Culture in the Enlightenment. University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Reinhartz, Adele. Bible and Cinema: An Introduction (2nd edition). Routledge, 2022 (film and subject index only).

Reinhartz, Adele. Jousting with John: Essays on Jews, Gender, and Ethics in the Fourth Gospel. De Gruyter, 2025.

Rottmann, Andrea. Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Sas, Miryam. Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art. Duke University Press, 2022.

Sendra Ferrer, Olga. Barcelona, City of Margins. University of Toronto Press, 2022.

Stoffel, Alexander. Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States. Stanford University Press, 2025 (forthcoming).

Tausig, Benjamin. Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies. Duke University Press, 2025 (forthcoming).

Wasielewski, Amanda. Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning. MIT Press, 2023.

White, Christopher M., and Kevin T. Barksdale. Appalachian Epidemics: From Smallpox to COVID-19. University of Kentucky Press, 2025.
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