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Diplomas / Degrees

Ph.D., New York University (1998)
M.A., New York University (1994)
B.A., UC - Berkeley (1991)

Recent Courses

Art & Craft Of Writing
Freshman Seminar
Independent Study 20th-Century Rhetoric
Interpretive Theories And Methods
Language In The Mind, Literature And Culture
Literature In English I
Renaissance Literature
S/T: Language In The Mind, Literature And Culture
The Structure Of Modern English

Teaching Specializations / Interests

Rhetoric and Composition Theory
History of the English Language
Old English Language and Literature
Cognitive Linguistics

Research Interests

History of the English Language
History of Rhetoric
Old English Literature and Culture
Theories of Metaphor
History of Subjectivity

Books

Momma, Haruko and Matto, Michael (eds). (2008). Companion to the History of the English Language.

Book Chapters

Matto, Michael. (2008). "English, Latin and the Teaching of Rhetoric". In Momma, Haruko and Matto, Michael (Eds.). Companion to the History of the English Language. (pp. 323-33).

Matto, Michael and Momma, Haruko. (2008). History, English, Language: Studying HEL Today. In Momma, Haruko and Matto, Michael (Eds.). Companion to the History of the English Language. (pp. 3-10).

Recent Articles

Matto, Michael. (2007, 1). English Language in History. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 14.1, 63-70

Matto, Michael. (2004, 4). “True Confessions: The Seafarer and Technologies of the Sylf.”. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 103

Matto, Michael. (2002, 5). “A War of Containment: The Heroic Image in The Battle of Maldon. Studia Neophilologica, 74, 60-75

Matto, Michael. (1997, 6). “The Old English Soul and Body I and Soul and Body II: Ending the Rivalry.”. In Geardagum, 18, 39-58

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

Momma, Haruko, and Matto, Michael (Guest Editors). Special Topic Issue: “Rethinking History of the English Language Pedagogy and Research.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 14.1 (2007).