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The Academic World of Dr. Mathes

Academic Writing is very, very different from creative writing, most notably in its often stilted style and its insistence on citations of cold, hard facts.  Pesky inconvenient things, facts.

I began my collegiate career in beautiful Flagstaff, Arizona, and ended it - or should I say, completed my doctoral work in the wonderful city of Albuquerque, NM.  Below is a link to my Curriculum Vitae, which is how we fancy academic types say "resume":

http://http:www.virgilmathes.com/curriculum-vitae



I had a wonderful graduate school experience, really, culminating in a fantastic dissertation committee who guided me through a project I'd had planned for years.  For my dissertation, I chose to examine how the traditional Code Duello, the code of the duel, informed the genre western.  This simple idea took me in many directions, and ultimately I couldn't follow all the trails that led away from it.  The following is a trail of rhetoric which became the third chapter of my dissertation; in it I consider how language acts governed the code of the duel and controlled how conflicts were mediated and whether or not violence was justified:

http://www.virgilmathes.com/rhetoric-and-the-duel
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