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Carolyn Matalene

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Office: Humanities Office Building
cmatalene@aol.com
or myersonj@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1968

Research Interests(s)
  • composition pedagogy,
  • real world writing,
  • modern rhetorical theory and
  • contrastive rhetoric

Dr. Matalene was the recipient of the Amoco Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998. The Amoco award is the University's most prestigous faculty honor that recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching.

Publications

with Katherine Reynolds, Carolina Voices: Two Hundred Years of Student Experiences, University of South Carolina Press, 2001.

with Alice Klement, Telling Stories/Taking Risks: Journalism Writing at the Century's Edge. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998. 320 pp.

with John Frederick Reynolds, Joyce Neff Magnotto, Donald Samson, and Lynn Veach Sadler. Professional Writing in Context: Lessons from Teaching and Consulting in Worlds of Work. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995. 192pp