Building on a solid rock

Some students who attend Pittsburg State University go on to complete their educations elsewhere.  Natalia Matveeva is one such example.

“Natalia Matveeva earned her MA in Professional Writing and Rhetoric at PSU, completed her PhD at Texas Tech University in Lubbock in 2006,” says Stephen Meats, Chair of the Department of English.  “Now she’s accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English and Professional Writing at the University of Houston-Downtown.”

Matveeva, whose specialty was intercultural communications, wrote a dissertation entitled “Teaching Intercultural Communication in a Service Technical Writing Course: Alternative Ways of Presenting Intercultural Issues in Technical Writing Textbooks and in Real Classrooms.”

During her doctoral program, Matveeva published four articles: “The Intercultural Component in Textbooks for Teaching a Technical Writing Service Course,” “Poems of William Butler Yeats in Russian Translations,” “Teaching Intercultural Communication in a Technical Writing Service Course: Real Instructors’ Practices and Suggestions for Textbook Selection" which was coauthored with Dr. Thomas Barker, and “Paralogic Hermeneutics: An Alternative Approach to Teaching Intercultural Communication in a Technical Writing Course.”