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About Assistant Professor Matt Hollibush
Assistant Professor Matt Hollibush teaches in the education division of Mount Saint Mary College. Particularly interested in literary, teacher education, and related fields, Matthew Hollibush has made strong contributions to both research and instruction in his discipline over the last several years. Before he came to Mount Saint Mary College, Matt Hollibush was a graduate student in the division of Teaching and Learning at the University of Utah, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy. Matt Hollibush engaged in research on high literacy teaching during his time as a PhD candidate and received a Spencer Foundation Grant to pursue work on critical discourse analysis as a pedagogical tool in teacher education. Matthew Hollibush also taught several courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and was a Student Teaching Supervisor. Prior to his matriculation at the University of Utah, Matthew Hollibush was a literature teacher at Vallejo Unified School District in Vallejo, California. Matt Hollibush taught traditionally underrepresented students and was a mentor to other teachers as the Vallejo High School’s Literacy Team Teacher Coordinator. In addition, Matt Hollibush was a Junior Varsity Boys’ Basketball Coach. Dedicated to the advancement of his field, Matt Hollibush belongs to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Educational Research Association, Association of Teacher Educators, and International Reading Association’s Utah Chapter. Matt Hollibush resides in Newburg, New York with his wife and family. Matt enjoys fly fishing, motorcycles the Lakers, the raiders, and spending time with his family.
Matt Hollibush's Companies
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Mount Saint Mary College
2009
Assistant Professor
Currently teaching full time in the division of education at Mount Saint Mary College at the Undergraduate and graduate levels. Course responsibilities include Secondary Language Arts Methods and Secondary Literacy courses. Duties include student advisement and varied Committee work. Scholarly activity. Supervision of student teachers in fieldwork.
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Matt Hollibush's Affiliations
Matt Hollibush's Publications
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Mount Saint Mary College
May, 2010
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American Educational Research Association
May, 2010
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New York Hiking Trails
May, 2010
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On Selected Works By Greg Iles
, Matthew Hollibush's Blog on Bigsight
April, 2012
One of my favorite authors is the American thriller and suspense novelist Greg Iles. Born in Germany, Iles was the son of a United States Embassy employee. He was raised in Mississippi, and subsequently graduated from the University of Mississippi. Before embarking on his career as an author, Iles was a musician. After getting married, however, Iles quit his band and started working on his first novel, Spandau Phoenix. Published in 1993, Spandau Phoenix became a New York Times bestseller. Iles has since authored seven other New York Times bestseller books and his novels have been published in countries around the world. Today, Iles continues his interest in music by playing with the band The Rock Bottom Remainders, which is composed entirely of authors, including Stephen King, Amy Tan, Matt Groening, and James McBride.
A classic Iles novel is the thriller The Footprints of God. The story follows a secret government project called Trinity that is working to produce a supercomputer. When one of the scientists working on the project dies, it is revealed that the project’s ultimate goal is the merger of man and machine to produce the ultimate computing power. The Footprints of God is concerned with David Tennant, the project’s ethical caretaker, who unearths this goal. He is subsequently pursued for his knowledge as he struggles to learn more about Trinity. Tennant also struggles with regression episodes, which his doctor claims to be seizures caused by overexposure to MRI machines. Through extremely vivid dreams, Tennant witnesses the birth of the universe and the history of mankind, and eventually starts to see unsettling present day events that prove to be reality rather than dream. The Footprints of God is an engrossing novel that pulls you in, and does not let you go until you reach the last page .
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