Matthew Hitchcock
Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English; Assistant Director of the Writing Program
Matthew’s research has focused heavily on family archives and research through lived experiences. His dissertation, Commemorative Objects: Tracing Memory, Meaning Making, and Uptakes through Family Photographs, dove into his own family archives, and traced the many uptakes we encounter when looking back while looking forward.
Matthew’s teaching utilizes his experiences with using family archives and often asks students to make their own as fodder for exploration in class. He also uses his background in rhetorical genre studies to help students trace why they write in particular situations and what genres prompt the best actions based on the situation.
Matthew received his Ph.D in English focusing on Writing and Rhetoric in 2021.
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Education
(MA) University of Massachusetts Boston; (BA) Millersville University of Pennsylvania ; (PhD) Northeastern
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Contact
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Address
433 Holmes Hall
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
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Offers writing instruction for students in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Students practice and reflect on writing in professional, public, and academic genres—such as proposals, recommendation reports, letters, presentations, and e-mails—relevant for careers in business. In a workshop setting, offers students an opportunity to evaluate a wide variety of sources and develop expertise in audience analysis, critical research, peer review, and revision.
First-Year Writing
ENGW 1111
Designed for students to study and practice writing in a workshop setting. Students read a range of texts in order to describe and evaluate the choices writers make and apply that knowledge to their own writing and explore how writing functions in a range of academic, professional, and public contexts. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to conduct research using primary and secondary sources; how to write for various purposes and audiences in multiple genres and media; and how to give and receive feedback, to revise their work, and to reflect on their growth as writers.
