Matthew Battles

Current

• adjunct professor at Emerson College
• faculty member at Harvard University Extension School
• freelance writer at Boston Globe; B&N Review

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Past

• freelance contributor at Boston Globe (Ideas Section)
• freelance commentator at New Hampshire Public Radio
• senior editor at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• author at Barry-Swayne Agency
• coordinating editor at Harvard University

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Education

• Boston University
• University of Chicago

Recommended

1 person has recommended Matthew

Connections

36 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• Twitter
• Urge of the Letter
• HiLoBrow

Matthew Battles’s Summary

I'm the author of Library: An Unquiet History, a book exploring the library as institution, metaphor, and ideal. I write book reviews and essays for such publications as the American Scholar and the Wilson Quarterly, and I am a regular contributor to the Boston Globe's Ideas section. I also teach a course on the history of writing and publishing for Harvard's Extension School, and I edit books for MFA Publications, the publishing imprint of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Matthew Battles’s Specialties:

editing, book design, history of ideas

Matthew Battles’s Experience

• adjunct professor

  Emerson College

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  I teach in the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College.

• faculty member

  Harvard University Extension School

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  I teach courses in publishing history, editing, and writing at the Harvard Extension School.

• freelance writer

  Boston Globe; B&N Review

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

• freelance contributor

  Boston Globe (Ideas Section)

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2004 — 2009 (5 years )

• freelance commentator

  New Hampshire Public Radio

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• senior editor

  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  September 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 1 month)

• author

  Barry-Swayne Agency

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2000 — 2007 (7 years )

• coordinating editor

  Harvard University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2000 — September 2006 (6 years 9 months)

  I edited Harvard Library Bulletin, a humanities journal published under the auspices of Harvard's rare books repository, Houghton Library.

Matthew Battles’s Education

• Boston University

  MA , creative writing , 1996 — 1997

• University of Chicago

  1989 — 1992

Additional Information

Matthew Battles’s Websites:

• Twitter
• Urge of the Letter
• HiLoBrow

Matthew Battles’s Interests:

language, nature, social life, history, technology, philosophy, art

Matthew Battles’s Groups:

Author's Guild, Associated Writing Programs

Matthew Battles’s Honors:

American Scholar, Best Essay by a Younger Writer 2004

Matthew Battles’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
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• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch