English Department

Paula Mathieu

english department

Paula Mathieu

Associate Professor

B.S., University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago                              

Carney Hall 431
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-3730
Fax: 617-552-4220
mathiepa@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~mathiepa

Academic Profile

Director of the First-Year Writing Program. Specializes in composition and rhetoric, focusing especially on rhetorical studies of public cultures, community-based writing as social action, writing pedagogy, and university-community partnerships.

Courses

  • EN010.07 - First Year Writing Seminar
  • EN825.01 - Composition Theory and the Teaching of Writing

Publications (selected)

  • Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in English Composition (Boynton/Cook, Heinemann 2005).
  • Writing Places (Longman, 2005). Co-edited with George Grattan, Tim Lindgren, and Staci Shultz.
  • "Questions of Time: Publishing and Group Identity in the StreetWise Writers Group." Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom. (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004).
  • Co-editor (with David Downing and Claude Mark Hurlburt), Beyond English, Inc.: Curricular Reform for a Global Economy (2002).
  • "Not your Mama's Bus Tour: A Case for Radically Insufficient Writing." City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices. Bruce MComiskey and Cynthia Ryan, Eds. New York: SUNY (2003).
  • "Enacting Cultures: The Practice of Comparative Cultural Study," co written with James Sosnoski. The Relevance of English: Teaching that Matter's in Students' Lives. Robert Yagelski and Scott Leonard, Eds. Urbana, IL: NCTE 2003.

Additional Professional Information

Professor Mathieu writes about and works for the international street newspapers movement, which brings together local publications that provide income and a public voice for homeless people worldwide. She is a writer and board member at Spare Change News in Cambridge, MA and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Network of Street Papers.