Carrie Matthews

Carrie Matthews serves as Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric within the Department of English at the University of Washington. She teaches intermediate writing courses across social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities disciplines, with Spring 2025 offerings including ENGL 298 A: Intermediate Writing in the Social Sciences.

Her academic credentials include:

• B.A. from University of Virginia (1997)
• M.A. from University of North Carolina (2001)
• Ph.D. from University of North Carolina (2007)

Matthews specializes in interdisciplinary writing pedagogy and transatlantic modernisms, with research spanning genre theory, temporal politics in literature, modern poetry, and connections between literary studies and social movements. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes collaborative approaches to writing instruction across academic disciplines, reflected in courses like Reading Prose Fiction and discipline-specific intermediate writing sequences.