Paul Kei Matsuda will talk on “The Process of Writing Process and Post-Process,” to be given Thursday, October 28, at 4:00 pm in Humanities 300, sponsored by the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society, the Division of Humanities, and the Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Composition.  Associate Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University, Matsuda is a specialist in the field of second language writing, an area of study informed by and informing the disciplines of composition, rhetoric, literacy studies, literary study, and applied linguistics. His articles appear in such journals as College Composition and Communication, College English, the Journal of Second Language Writing, the Journal of Basic Writing, English for Specific Purposes, Academic Writing, and the International Journal of Applied Linguistics, and he is the editor and co-editor of several books, most recently Cross-Language Relations in Composition and the forthcoming Defining Composition Studies.  He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2006 Richard Ohmann Award for his article “The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in U.S. College Composition.”  Founding chair of the Symposium on Second Language Writing, Matsuda’s current research explores issues of linguistic difference in writing and writing instruction, as well as matters of identity in written discourse, with an emphasis on “social voice.”