Welcome
Paul
Kei Matsuda is Associate Professor of English and the Director of Writing Programs at Arizona
State University, where he works closely with students in
the Ph.D.
Program in Rhetoric, Composition and Linguistics, master's
programs in TESOL and Linguistics,
and undergraduate programs in Linguistics.
He also teaches in the brand new Ph.D.
Program in Applied Linguistics.
He has published widely on second language writing in various journals and edited collections in applied linguistics, rhetoric and composition and TESOL. A sought after speaker, he has given invited talks at various regional, national and international conferences. He has also been giving talks and conducting workshops at a wide variety of institutions in various countries and throughout the States.
Paul is founding chair of the Symposium on Second Language Writing and the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing, and has served as the Chair of the Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) Caucus. He has edited numerous books and special journal issues on second language writing. He is also the series editor of the Parlor Press Series on Second Language Writing.
During Summer 2007, he was an International Visiting Researcher at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan, where he taught a graduate seminar on postmodern qualitative research and second language writing research. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong.
