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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

Academic writing; professional writing; multimodal composition; technical communication

Research areas

Writing; writing pedagogy; multimodal composition; digital literacy; digital writing technologies; pragmatist philosophy

Education

PhD, Rhetoric And Composition, University of Pittsburgh, United States, 2018

Contact

[email protected]

Dr. Matthew Overstreet

Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh, United States

Dr. Overstreet studies and teaches writing and the writing process. Originally from Kansas, in the United States, he holds a PhD in rhetoric and composition from the University of Pittsburgh. He has lived and taught on three continents.

Publications

Dr. Matthew Overstreet, Dr. Silvia Salvadore And Diana Akhmedjanova. Time, space and tools: A materio-cognitive model of digital writing process development., Written Communication, 2026
Dr. Matthew Overstreet. Cultivating Networked Literacy: Second Language Writers and the Development of Online Source Evaluation Strategies, Computers & Composition, 1 March 2025
Dr. Matthew Overstreet. Liberalism in Rhetoric and Composition: An Ideological History and (Re)Definition, Composition Studies, 2024
Dr. Matthew Overstreet, Curtis Carbonell And Diana Akhmedjanova. The “Multimodal Spiral”: Rethinking the Communication Curriculum at an English as a Medium of Instruction Institution, Journal Of Technical Writing & Communication, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024
Dr. Matthew Overstreet, Diana Akhmedjanova And Silvia Vaccino-salvadore. Brain-bound vs. Extended: Contrasting Approaches to Second Language Research Writing in Digital Environments, Journal Of Second Language Writing, 1 September 2023
Dr. Matthew Overstreet. Writing as Extended Mind: Recentering Cognition, Rethinking Tool Use, Computers & Composition, 1 March 2022
Dr. Matthew Overstreet. Networked Reading: How Digital Reading Experts Use Their Tools, College English, 1 May 2021
Matthew Overstreet. Writing at the Interface: A Research and Teaching Program for Everyday Digital Media Literacy, Literacy In Composition Studies, 15 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020

Conference Presentations

A Summarizer of Google Search Results: How Students in a Chinese EMI University Use Gen AI, Symposium On Second Language Writing, 25 October 2025
Digital Ecologies of Second-Language Writing, Computers & Writing 2025, 15 May 2025
Co-intelligence in the EMI University: Second-Language Writers & Generative AI, Conference On College Composition And Communication (cccc), 7 April 2025

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Faculty Startup Grant, AUS, 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2026

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