Wesley Mathis grew up in the Missouri Ozarks and earned an M.A. at Oregon State University, where he was awarded the Lisa Ede Award for Excellence in Composition Instruction. His teaching and research interests include first-year writing pedagogy, translingual composition practices, and science communication, the latter showcased in publications like “Learning to Write Like a Scientist: A Writing-Intensive Course for Microbiology/Health Science Students” in ASM Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, Special Issue on Science Communication. Mathis has taught writing at institutions throughout the Willamette Valley for more than a decade.
Oregon State University, Corvallis OR
MA Rhetoric and Composition September 2016
Thesis: “Public Proof: Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational”
Committee: Profs. Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Chris Anderson, and Sara Jameson
Missouri State University, Springfield MO
BA English, summa cum laude in the Honors College, English Literature May 2009
Thesis: “Bright, Beautiful, but Dead: Style, Typicality, and the New Yorker Short Story”
Advisor: Professor Brian Shawver
Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan 2008
Study Abroad (Japanese and Japanese History)
Lisa Ede Award for Excellence in Composition Instruction
WR 121Z: Composition I
WR 122Z: Composition II
WR 222: Argumentation
WR 214: Business Writing
WR 227: Technical Writing
WR 130: Fundamentals of Grammar
WR 230: Essentials of Grammar
WR 362: Science Writing
WR 462: Environmental Writing