My professional name is M. Bartley Seigel, but everybody who knows me calls me Matt. I’m Writing Center Director and Associate Professor of Creative Writing & Literature in the Department of Humanities.
I’ve been faculty at Michigan Tech since 2005 and faculty advisor for the Lode since 2021.
As Lode faculty advisor, my main responsibilities are to lend expertise and mentorship to the paper when and where it’s needed, and to help ensure coherent transitions from year to year as students cycle into and out of the organization. It’s little known lore that the Lode, the oldest student organization on campus, was on the verge of collapse by the end of Covid lockdowns. It’s been a real privilege working with the paper’s incredibly dedicated staff to help bring it back from that brink, to help keep our campus from becoming a news desert, and to help ensure that Michigan Tech students can be better informed and more civically engaged in our community. There’s much work left to do, but the Lode is thriving in all its idiosyncratic glory, and I couldn’t be more proud to be involved during this time.
