Matthew Frye Castillo
(He/him)
Lecturer in Professional and Creative Writing at Lehman College
Director of the Program for Professional Communications
Director of the Lehman chapter of the LGBTQI+ Consortium
Advisor to The Meridian student newspaper
Website
Academic Interests
Creative writing: memoirs, essays, novels, poetry, screenplays, stageplays
Literature & social theory: social psychology, jurisprudence, intersectionality, critical race theory, trauma studies, affect studies, media studies, queer theory, world literatures, Latino/a literatures.
Art history: history of modern and contemporary art, anti-racist art history; LGBTQI+ visual & affective histories
Business and economics: social finance, ESG, marketing, non-profits, altruism, neoliberalism, entrepreneurship, history of leadership
Education
MBA in Business Administration — Baruch College, CUNY, 2024
Certificate in Publishing — Columbia University, 2018
MFA in Creative Writing — Hunter College, CUNY, 2017
BA in Psychology — University of Alaska, Anchorage, 2015
BA in English Literature — University of Alaska, Anchorage, 2012
Undergraduate courses — Clark University, 2008
ENW 201: Writing Essentials
Course link: TK
LEH 250: Poetry as Intelligence
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ENW 399: Research, Rhetoric, and Writing Studies
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