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Matt Seymour is an Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of Northern 黑料社区. He served as a field-research associate for the Argumentative Writing Project at The Ohio State University where he earned his PhD in education. Following his graduation, he worked at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire as an Assistant Professor, where he served as Chair of the English Language Arts Teaching emphasis. In 2014, through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities he was a Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare library and helped develop lessons that integrated digital technology with teaching Shakespeare.听

Matt鈥檚 current research interests include literature curriculum development, argumentative writing, and dialogic approaches to literature instruction. He is the principal author of Teaching Literature Using Dialogic Literary Argumentation.听

Books听

• Seymour, M.,鈥疦ewell, G., Bloome, D., & Thanos, T. (2020)鈥�Teaching听Literature with Dialogic Literary Argumentation.鈥疦ew York: Routledge听

• Newell, G., Bloome, D., Hirvela, A. & Lin, T. with Brady, J., Ha, S., Kwak, S.鈥�Seymour, M., Shanahan, E., Thanos, T., VanDerHeide, J., Wynhoff Olsen, A. (2019)鈥�Dialogic Literary Argumentation in High School Language Arts Classrooms: A Social Perspective for Teaching, Learning, and Reading Literature. New York: Routledge听

Journal Articles听

• Seymour, M.听(2025).听Theorizing 鈥楻eflection鈥� and 鈥楻efraction鈥� for Teaching Argumentative Writing about Literature in the Secondary English Language-Arts Classroom. 29.听Journal of Educational Research and Innovation,鈥�12(1), 9.听

• Seymour, M.鈥�(2023). Teaching Shakespeare Using Dialogic Literary Argumentation.鈥�CEA Critic85(2), 192-195.鈥疛ohns Hopkins University Press听

• Seymour, M.鈥�(2021). Rethinking Argumentative Writing: Moving Beyond Teaching Structure to Engage Students in Critical Conversations.鈥�CEA Critic83(2), 195-202.鈥疛ohns Hopkins University Press.听

• Newell, G., Thanos, T., &鈥�Seymour, M.鈥�(2021) 鈥淐omposing Literary Arguments in an 11th Grade International Baccalaureate Classroom: How Classroom Instructional Conversations Shape Modes of Participation.鈥� Literacy in听Composition Studies: 鈥淎gainst Autonomous Literacies: Extending the Work of Brian V. Street.鈥� Volume 8, Issue 2, 78-102.听

• Seymour, M.鈥�(2018) Complexity, Contradiction, and Carnival:听Microethnographic听Research on Student Disruption in a High School English Language Arts Classroom. Acta听Paedagogica听Vilnensia, 40, 70-93.听

• Seymour, M.鈥�(2016). 鈥淭he Rise, Fall, and Misfortune of Romeo and Juliet: A Lesson in Moral Complexity鈥�.听The CEA Critic, (78.3). Johns Hopkins University Press听

Book Chapters听

• Bloome, D., Kalman, J., &鈥�Seymour, M.鈥�(2018) Fashioning Literacy as Social; in Re-Theorizing Literacy Practices in and Across Complex Social and Cultural Contexts. New York: Routledge.听

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