Matthew Edward Adams
m2eadams@gmail.com · Salt Lake City, UT · compassrose.garden
Professional orientation
English Literature · Linguistics · Curriculum Design · Technical & Analytical Writing · Secondary and University-Level Teaching
Selected work experience
2019–present · English Faculty · Waterford School · Sandy, UT Teaching British and American literature; designed senior seminars on invented languages and non-fiction literature of the Great Basin. Writing Center Director 2020–2023, conducting more than 1,000 writing conferences.
2016–2019 · Humanities Instructor · High Tech High · San Diego, CA Designed and taught humanities-science projects in a public charter project-based school. ESL instruction; private-public partnership work.
2014–2015 · Computer Science Editor · Shmoop · Mountain View, CA Launched several computer science courses; hired and edited writers for accuracy and voice.
2013–2014 · Postdoctoral Researcher (DAAD Fellowship) · Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Statistical and quantitative research on the relationship between frequency of usage and prosodic structure in German and English.
Education
2014 · Stanford University Ph.D. in Linguistics · Dissertation: The Comparative Grammaticality of the English Comparative
2005 · Georgetown University M.A. in German · Highest Distinction · Specialization: German Literature, Language Teaching, and SLA · Thesis: The Individual in Society: Insights from Russian Studies of Language and Mind, Second Language Acquisition, & Systemic-Functional Linguistics
2002 · University of California, Irvine B.A. in Linguistics · B.A. in German · Summa cum Laude & Magna cum Laude · Phi Beta Kappa · Honors Thesis: The Development of the German Dorsal Fricative System: An Optimality and Dispersion Theory Account
Credentialing & skills
California Clear Single Subject Teaching Credential · Authorizations: English, ESL, History
Languages: German C1/C2 (active) · French intermediate · Spanish latent · Korean nascent
Linguistics & research: Corpus & statistical analysis · Formal syntax & phonology · Second language acquisition · Discourse analysis
Computing: Linux DevOps (Arch, Debian, Proxmox) · Home server management (ZFS, Docker, LXC, reverse proxy, DNS) · Python · R · Shell scripting · Emacs/Org Mode · Git · Front-end web development
Teaching technologies: Hugo · Harkness/REAL discussion facilitation · Curriculum design & deployment · Writing center administration
A more complete résumé is available on request.