UMass Boston

Matthew Davis

Department:
English
Title:
Associate Professor
Location:
Wheatley Hall Floor 06
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Area of Expertise

Literacy studies, technology and composition, composition theory and pedagogy, writing transfer, and collaborative learning and writing

Degrees

PhD, Florida State University

MA, North Carolina State University

BA, University of Kansas

Professional Publications & Contributions
  • "What Do We Want in This Paper?: Generating Criteria Collectively." Teaching With Student Texts. Ed. Joseph Harris, John Miles, Charles Paine. Logan: Utah State UP, 2011. (with Chris Anson and Domenica Vilhotti)
  • "Expanding the Available Means of Composing: Three Sites of Inquiry." enculturation 14 (2012). (with Kevin Brock and Stephen J. McElroy)
  • “Notes toward the Role of Materiality in Composing, Reviewing, and Assessing Multimodal Texts.” Computers & Composition, 31.1 (2014). 13-28. (with Kathleen Yancey)
  • “A Matter of Design: Context and Available Resources in the Development of a New English Major at Florida State University.” Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles. Eds. Greg Giberson, Jim Nugent, Lori Ostergaard. Logan: Utah State UP, 2015. (with Kristie Fleckenstein and Kathleen Yancey)
  • "Program Sustainability: Curricular Resilience in Florida State's Editing, Writing, and Media Concentration." South Atlantic Review, 78.1/2 (2015). 10-33. (with Kristie Fleckenstein, Kathleen Yancey, and Katherine Bridgman)
  • "Against the Rhetoric and Composition Grain: A Microhistorical View." Microhistories of Composition. Ed. Bruce McComiskey. Utah State University Press, 2016. (with Jacob Craig, Christine Martorana, Josh Mehler, Kendra Mitchell, Anthony N. Ricks, Bret Zawilski, and Kathleen Blake Yancey)
  • "Ways of Knowing and Doing in Digital Rhetoric: A Primer." enculturation 23 (2016). (with Stephen J. McElroy and Rory Lee)
  • "Device. Display. Read: The Design of Reading and Writing and the Difference Display Makes." Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom. Eds. Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blau. NCTE, 2017. (with Jacob Craig, Michael Spooner, and Kathleen Yancey)
  • "Writing across College: Key Terms and Multiple Contexts as Factors Promoting Students' Transfer of Writing Knowledge and Practice." The WAC Journal, 29 (2018). 42-63. (with Kathleen Yancey, Liane Robertson, Kara Taczak, and Erin Workman)
  • "The Teaching for Transfer Curriculum: The Role of Concurrent Transfer and Inside-and-Outside School Contexts in Supporting Students’ Writing Development." College Composition and Communication, 71.2 (2019). (with Kathleen Yancey, Liane Robertson, Kara Taczak, and Erin Workman)
  • "Teaching for Transfer and the Design of a Writing Center Education Program." WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship digital edited collection Transfer of Learning in the Writing Center. Eds. Bonnie Devet & Dana Lynn Driscoll, 2020. (with Lauren Bowen)
  • "Ways of Knowing and Doing in Digital Rhetoric: Pedagogy." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 24.2 (2020). (with Rory Lee and Stephen J. McElroy)
  • “The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page.” Writing Changes: Alphabetic Text and Multimodal Composition. Ed. Pegeen Reichert Powell. MLA, 2020. 103-22. (with Alex Mueller)
  • “Ways of Knowing and Doing in Digital Rhetoric in a Post-Truth Age.” enculturation 33 (2022). (with Rory Lee and Stephen McElroy)
  • “Rethinking Transfer: The Rise of Writing Transfer Research Across Contexts.” WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies 30, (2022). (with Robin Snead, Kara Poe Alexander, Lilian Mina, and Ryan Shepherd)

Additional Information
  • Co-editor, Composition Studies
  • Director, Center for Society & Media

Courses Taught at UMass Boston

Undergraduate

  • ENGL 101: Freshman English I
  • ENGL 203: Writing: Craft, Context, Design
  • ENGL 306: Advanced Nonfiction Writing
  • ENGL 309: Multimedia Authoring
  • ENGL 312: Digital Culture and Composition
  • ENGL 379: Professional and New Media Writing
  • ENGL 448: Perspectives on Literacy
  • ENGL 464: Advanced Studies in Language: Rhetoric, New Media, and the US Presidential Election
  • ENGL 475 & 477: English Internships I & II

Graduate

  • ENGL 610: The Teaching of Composition
  • ENGL 613: Teaching English with Technology
  • ENGL 667: Seminar for Tutors
  • ENGL 672: Research in Writing Studies
  • ENGL 673: Digital Writing
  • ENGL 695: Independent Study: WAC & Online Writing Center Work
  • ENGL 696: Independent Study: War in 20th C Fiction & Poetry
  • ENGL 698: Intern Seminar