Chair of the W&C Course Advisory Committee and Director of Writing in the Disciplines

Office: LAAH 524
Phone: (979) 845-5593
Contact: mmckinney@tamu.edu

Dr. Matt McKinney grew up in Cedar Park, Texas. He earned his BA (Corporate Communications and Creative Writing) in 2008 and his MA (British and American Literature) in 2010 at the University of Houston. After leaving Texas for six years to earn his PhD (Rhetoric and Composition) at the University of Nevada-Reno, he came to Texas A&M in Fall 2017 as English faculty. He joined the UWC in Summer 2023 as a dual appointment with the English Department, where he still teaches as an instructional associate professor.

In his work with the UWC, Matt holds faculty workshops and consultations on various topics related to writing pedagogy, and he chairs the committee responsible for certifying the university's writing- and communication-intensive courses. His teaching and research interests include critical pedagogy, writing-in-the-disciplines, generative AI, rhetoric of style, graphic novel analysis, and the rhetoric of pop culture.  

Favorite writing strategy: Swales moves is fantastic for situating your ideas and writing in response to others in your field; and if you're stuck, Invisible Drafting (where you write for ten minutes nonstop with your font color set to white) is a great way to draft without getting bogged down in editing tiny mistakes.