Matthew Matera
Matthew Matera
Recent Stories
A pocketful of pebbles
Finding a small oasis in Appalachia
They both seem out of place. In the middle of a depressed coal mining town in Appalachia, in the center of a spacious room, the man with a soft Brooklyn accent does not fit in. Neither does the school he is sitting in -- a homey, spacious two-story...
Lose the apathy, start caring
Am I a complete moron? Let's look at the facts: Almost every day the death toll rises in the Holy Land -- nothing new in the seemingly unending war. Foster care in America is so dreadful that NBC recently reported that 740 kids in Los Angeles County...
Catholic faith endures despite priestly sins
As a Catholic, I have viewed the sexual abuse scandal currently engulfing the Roman Catholic Church with great distress. In Boston, John Geoghan is now accused of molesting more than 130 people while he was a priest, and he has been found guilty on at...
Profs to write book on terrorist attack
Four months ago, the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization did not exist. But now Basic Books is hoping people will value the new center's name and expertise enough to buy 100,000 copies of a hardcover book published by the Yale center.
Gary Hart to be first speaker in terror series
Former Senator Gary Hart, who was instrumental in producing an extensive recent report about national security, will be the first speaker in a new Yale lecture series in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Hart will speak Tuesday night and...
Kagan: Yale profs 'blaming victim'
Former dean says colleagues too soft on terrorists; profs avoiding real debate
As much of the nation talks of aggressive military action and war, history professor and former Yale College Dean Donald Kagan said he believes professors urging caution are dominating the discussion at Yale -- to the exclusion of a real debate.
One new English prof, worlds of expertise
Trumpener, of U. Chicago, praised for depth of interests and research
The English and Comparative Literature departments have acquired new faculty expertise in areas including post-World War II German cinema, nationalism in British novels, colonial literature, early children's literature, and Canadian literature.
With terror on their minds, professors stray from text
Professor Vincent Scully had always disliked the architecture of the World Trade Center towers. On Tuesday Scully got to one of the last slides in his Modern Architecture lecture and stood with a picture of the towers projected on a large screen...
Policy experts urge caution in retaliation
Professors see fear in students' faces as new era of terrorism poses foreign policy problems
As the Yale community dealt with yesterday's cataclysmic terrorist attacks, the first difficulty for many was coming to believe that the event really had happened. But Yale scholars already have begun the difficult task of envisioning what might come...
Visa issues complicate a few Yalies' itinerary
Some Chinese students refused visas to come study in the U.S.
While his classmates might shop a class or two before preparing to celebrate their first real weekend at Yale, Zhou Jun '05 will be in Beijing today, trying to convince a U.S. consular official to allow him to leave China for New Haven. It will be his...