Matthew is a PhD Candidate in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, researching cultural memory, historical narrative, and Anglo-Scandinavian acculturation in the tenth-thirteenth centuries. With research specialities in the history of early medieval England and in Scandinavian saga literature, he has published numerous articles on various aspects of society and culture in England and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, and their intersections. He is currently working on his first monograph, a biographical study of English queens-consort in the years 850-1000, scheduled for publication the Routledge Lives of Royal Women series.

Matthew a committee member of Cerae Journal, a committee member of the Australian Early Medieval Association (AEMA), reviews editor for the AEMA Journal, secretary for the Flinders College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Association, and co-founder and lead researcher for The Postgrad Chronicles academic blog.

Most recent publications:

Matthew Firth and Erin Sebo, 'Kingship and Maritime Power in 10th‐Century England,' International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 49 (no.2, 2020).

Matthew Firth, 'The Character of the Treacherous Woman in the passiones of Early Medieval English Royal Martyrs,' Royal Studies Journal 7 (no. 1, 2020), 1-21.

Matthew Firth, 'Æthelred II ‘the Unready’ and the Role of Kingship in Gunnlaugs saga Ormstungu,' The Court Historian 25 (no. 1, 2020), 1-14.