Dr. Matthew Sansbury

Associate Professor | Interim Department Chair of English

Office: Arts & Sciences G110-A
English
College of Arts & Sciences
MatthewSansbury@clayton.edu

Biography

Dr. Matthew Sansbury is Interim Department Chair of English and an Associate Professor at Clayton State University, where he teaches courses in Digital and Multimedia Writing, Cultural Rhetorics, and Multimodal Composition. He serves as the Director of First-Year Writing & The Writers’ Studio and has published work in Peitho, Kairos, and Computers and Composition Online as well as the edited collections Threshold Conscripts: Rhetoric and Composition Teaching Assistantships and The Rhetoric of Participation: Interrogating Commonplaces in and Beyond the Classroom.

A former Advanced Teaching Fellow at Georgia State University and Research Fellow at the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, Dr. Sansbury joined the Department of English in 2019 and has received multiple awards for teaching, scholarship, and service, including the College of Arts & Sciences Teacher of the Year Award (2024-25), Alice J. Smith Award for Clayton State Faculty Member of the Year (2023-24), and Kairos Service Award (2017). He was honored to serve as Macebearer for Dr. Georj L. Lewis’s Presidential Investiture and Deputy Faculty Marshal for all commencement ceremonies in 2024–25.

Education

Ph D, English, Georgia State University, 2019

MA, English, Georgia State University, 2014

BA, English, Georgia State University, 2012

Awards and Honors

Alice J. Smith Award: University Faculty Member of the Year, Clayton State University, Award, 2024

Deputy Faculty Marshal, Clayton State University, Honor, 2024

Macebearer, Presidential Investiture, Clayton State University, Honor, 2024

Nomination, 2023 Service of the Year, College of Arts and Sciences, Clayton State University, Honor, 2023

Intellectual Contributions

Michael Harker, Mary Hocks, Matthew Sansbury, "The Success of this Course Depends Upon Your Participation: Technology, Topoi, and Infrastructure in the Era of MOOCs", Computers and Composition Digital Press – August 2019

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Jennifer M. Parrott, Mary R. Lamb, Matthew Sansbury, Sipai Klein, Margaret Fletcher, ALG English 1101 Textbook Grant, USG, State, 30000, Funded – March 2021 to May 2022

Presentations

Matthew Sansbury, Breaking Rules and Making Texts: Visual-Textual Pathos in Social Media, SAMLA 92 Conference, South Atlantic Modern Language Association – November 14 2020

Matthew Sansbury, Exploring Intermodal Pedagogy: A Student-Centered Approach to Multimodality, SAMLA 91 Conference, South Atlantic Modern Language Association – November 15 2019

Matthew Sansbury, I’m Applying for a PostDoc Fellowship: What the Heck Does This Even Mean?, Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English – March 2020

Matthew Sansbury, Working with Sources in MLA, Write-Right Workshop Series, Writers' Studio (CSU) – October 5 2020

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

University, Commencement Committee, Committee Member – Fall 2024 to Spring 2025

University, Social Mobility Summit Executive Commitee, Committee Member – Spring 2024 to Summer 2024

College, College Marketing Committee, Committee Member – Fall 2023 to Spring 2024