The blurb: "The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (JGVW) focuses on theoretical and applied, empirical, critical, rhetorical, creative, economic and professional approaches to the study of electronic games across platforms and genres as well as ludic and serious online environments." As Reviews Editor for the journal, I am always seeking reviewers for game/gaming-related academic books, websites, communities, and "popular" books, in addition to reviews of virtual environments and, of course, video games (single- or multiplayer, across all platforms). If you are interested in reviewing a text for JGVW, please see the revolving call-for-papers (with additional information about reviews in particular) and/or contact me.

Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games: Reshaping Theory and Practice of Writing. Eds. Richard Colby, Matthew S. S. Johnson, and Rebekah Shultz Colby). (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) |

"Ludic Snags." (with Richard Colby). Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games: Reshaping Theory and Practice of Writing. Eds. Richard Colby, Matthew S. S. Johnson, and Rebekah Shultz Colby). (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) |

"Player, Avatar, Author: Subjectivities of a Computer Gamer." Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment). Eds. Kristin L. Arola, Anne Frances Wysocki. (Utah State UP, 2012). |

"Reflections of an Academic Gamer or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Work of Play." Techsty: Magazyn Ludologiczny/Ludological Journal 8.1 (2012). English | Polish

"Response to Jonathan Alexander’s ‘Gaming, Student Literacies, and the Composition Classroom: Some Possibilities for Transformation.’" (with Richard Colby and Rebekah Shultz Colby.) College Composition and Communication 64.4 (June 2010): 761-767. (CCC Interchanges response article.)

"Rekindling Rhetoric: Oratory and Marketplace Culture in Guild Wars." Writing (and) the Digital Generation. Ed. Heather Urbanski. (McFarland, 2010). |

"Vicarious Play: A Jaunt through Computer Role-Playing Game History." Academic review of Matt Barton's Dungeons & Desktops (A K Peters, Ltd. 2008). Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 1.1 (2009).

As co-guest-editor: Computers & Composition: An International Journal. Special issue, "Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming." Matthew S. S. Johnson & Pilar Lacasa, eds. 25.3 (September 2008).

"Public Writing in Gaming Spaces." Computers & Composition: An International Journal 25.3 (September 2008): 270-283.

"Teaching Iron Chef." College English 70.4 (March 2008): 401-402. (A pedagogical anecdote in a special topics issue on the pedagogy of food.)

"Teasing out Everyday Culture: Why Simple Questions Are Worth Asking." From Hip Hop to Hyperlinks: Practical Approaches for Teaching Culture in the Composition Classroom. Ed. Joanna Paull. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). |

"Combat to Conversation: Towards a Theoretical Foundation for the Study of Games." Dichtung Digital 37.1 (December 2007): n.p. <http://www.dichtung-digital>.

"The Texts of Tamriel: Online Gaming Projects, from Playing to Writing." Techknowledgies: New Cultural Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, & TechnoSciences. Ed. Mary Valentis. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). |

Johnson, Matthew S. S. & Heather G. S. Johnson. On Composition. (New York: Pearson Longman)

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Courses

Fall 2013:
ENG 554: Composition Pedagogy (for Graduate/Teaching Assistants)
ENG 485: Methods of Teaching Secondary English -- Composition and Language

Spring 2013:
ENG 556: Theory of Composition and Rhetoric
ENG 490: Advanced Composition

Fall 2012:
ENG 554: Composition Pedagogy (for Graduate/Teaching Assistants)
ENG 485: Methods of Teaching Secondary English -- Composition and Language

Spring 2012:
ENG 490: Advanced Composition

Fall 2011:
ENG 574: Basic Writing Theory and Pedagogy
ENG 485: Methods of Teaching Secondary English -- Composition and Language
CIV 115: Composing Worlds -- Visualizing Words & Writing Images

Spring 2011:
ENG 581: Topics in Teaching Writing -- Post-Process Theory and 21st Century Audiences
ENG 491: Technical and Business Writing

Fall 2010:
ENG 554: Composition Pedagogy
ENG 485: Methods of Teaching Secondary English -- Composition and Language
CIV 115: Composing Worlds -- Visualizing Words & Writing Images

Summer 2010:
ENG 488: History of Rhetoric

Spring 2010:
ENG 558: Practicum in the Teaching of Writing
ENG 491: Technical and Business Writing
ENG 485: Methods of Teaching Secondary English -- Composition and Language

Fall 2009:
ENG 485: Methods of Teaching Secondary English -- Composition and Language
CIV 115: Composing Worlds -- Visualizing Words & Writing Images

Spring 2009:
ENG 485: Methods of Teaching Secondary English -- Composition and Language

Fall 2008:
ENG 485: Methods of Teaching Secondary English -- Composition and Language
CIV 115: Composing Worlds -- Visualizing Words & Writing Images

Summer 2008:
ENG 597: Not Minding the Gap -- Perspectives on the Teaching of Writing from Secondary to Post-Secondary Education
ENG 488: History of Rhetoric

Spring 2008:
ENG 597: Computers, Composition, and Writers with Learning Disabilities
ENG 581: Topics in Teaching Writing -- Writing in the Field: The Making, Teaching, and Publishing of Arguments
ENG 558: Practicum in the Teaching of Writing

Fall 2007:
ENG 574: Theory and Practice of Teaching Basic and Developmental Writing
CIV 115: Composing Worlds -- Visualizing Words & Writing Images

Summer 2007:
ENG 487: Politics of Composition Pedagogy -- The Rifts, Turf Wars, and Arguments that Hold Us Together)

Spring 2007:
ENG 572: Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing with Computers
ENG 499: Crafting the Author -- Writing Identities, 1800-Present ENG 490: Advanced Composition -- Investigating Communities
ENG 102: English Composition II

Fall 2006:
ENG 581: Topics in Teaching Writing: Currents in Composition
ENG 490: Advanced Composition -- Investigating Communities
ENG 101: English Composition I

Indiana University Courses:

ENG W350: Advanced Expository Writing: Inventing the Human
ENG W350: Advanced Expository Writing: Perspectives on Community
ENG W231: Professional Writing Skills
ENG W170: Projects in Reading and Writing: Americans in Space, from Outer Space to Cyberspace
ENG L142: Introduction to the Study of Literature: Private Lives and Public Genres
ENG W131: Elementary Composition
ENG W131BW: Elementary Composition for Basic Writers
ENG J101: Introduction to College Composition: Conceptions of Wealth in American Culture