Contact

NAME	TITLE	CONTACT
Matthew Schultz	Director of the Writing Center and Adjunct Associate Professor of English	(845) 437-7683 writingcenter@vassar.edu
Candice Lowe Swift	Faculty Director of Teaching Development	(845) 437-7724
Jonathon Kahn	Faculty Director of Research Development	(845) 437-5521

Matthew Schultz smiling in an office setting, wearing a brown tweed jacket, a purple and white gingham dress shirt, and a dark knit tie.

Matthew Schultz is the Director of First-Year Writing & the Writing Center and Adjunct Associate Professor of English. He earned both his B.A. and M.A. in English Literature at John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in English Literature from Saint Louis University, where he was Assistant Coordinator of the University Writing Center and Coordinator of the Graduate School Writing Center.

As Writing Center Director, Dr. Schultz works with students, peer consultants, and faculty to support writing as a practice of thinking, revision, and rhetorical judgment across the curriculum. He is especially interested in how writers learn to move from uncertainty toward clearer claims; how readers, writers, and speakers develop through conversation; and how feedback can preserve writer agency while helping ideas become more precise, persuasive, and alive to an audience.

His teaching and scholarship encompass composition & rhetoric, creative writing, and literary modernism. Across these areas, he emphasizes slow attention, interpretive patience, imagination, revision, and the ethical work of making meaning with others. His recent teaching and research explore the ways literary and cultural forms preserve modes of knowing that modernity often marginalizes or forgets.