Chair, Department of Humanities
Associate Professor of English
debra.matthews@maconstate.edu

Dr. Debra Holmes Matthews, Associate Professor of English, has a B.S. in English Education from Albany State University; an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Teaching, Secondary, from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in English from Georgia State University. She is a recipient of the 2006 Macon State College Award for Outstanding Teaching and currently serves as the Humanities representative on the Macon State College Teacher Education Council and the Board of Regents Academic Advisory Committee on English. Her research interests are writing apprehension, American Realism and Naturalism, and African American literature.