Rate My Professor Matthew Dowell

Dowell's research primarily focuses on feedback to student writing, influenced by his experiences as a writing tutor, college journalist, and editor, as well as advice from a mentor to study mundane yet persistent issues. He examines the production, reception, and circulation of such feedback in writing classrooms and its interplay with local contexts and ideologies. Planned future work will investigate how students, student writing, and teacher feedback move between classroom and writing center spaces. In earlier scholarship, Dowell studied newspaper rhetoric concerning slave revolts in relation to the Haitian Revolution and its recounting in historical footnotes. He co-authored the chapter "Purposeful Access: Reinventing Supersystems through Rhetorical Action" with Bre Garrett in the book Systems Shift, published by the WAC Clearinghouse. Dowell has presented at conferences including the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the Thomas R. Watson Conference. In 2023, he participated as a panelist in the AccessADVANCE webinar "Disability Inclusion in the Ongoing Pandemic," addressing impacts on the disability community and inclusion strategies.