¶ M.C. Armstrong
Matthew C. Armstrong[1] is an American author based in Greensboro, North Carolina. He teaches English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro[2] and is an associate editor for MilSpeak Books, an imprint of the MilSpeak Foundation.[3] He writes for the Honest Media Project.
¶ History
Armstrong grew up in Winchester, Virginia.[4]
¶ Education
Armstrong attended Guilford College and James Madison University (JMU).[1:1][5] He completed a Masters of English at the University of Virginia from 1999-2001. He then attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2003 for creative writing, literature, history and English.[6]
¶ Career
From August 2006 to July 2011, Armstrong worked as a lecturer at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He founded and edited Convergence Review, and taught "writing intensive interdisciplinary courses such as Scientific Revolution and Social Change and Technology and Society."[6:1]
Armstrong embedded with United States Navy SEALs in Al Anbar Province, Iraq as a field reporter in 2008.[7][8] He published extensively on the Iraq war in The Winchester Star.[6:2]
In August 2013, Armstrong began lecturing at Guilford College.[6:3]
At some point, Armstrong was pursuing a PhD in Global War on Terror Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.[7:1]
On April 28, 2015, Armstrong published an article about "Gulf War Syndrome", framing it as the result of the traumatic realities of military conflict in the Middle East.[9]
On May 4, 2015, Armstrong published an article highlighting the story of Bruce Ivins as the "lone wolf" responsible for the anthrax attacks in 2001. Armstrong ended the piece by acknowledging that there were unanswered questions about whether or not Ivins acted alone, and calling for further transparency on the issue from the United States Federal Government.[10]
On May 20, 2019, Armstrong published an article titled "Waking Up to History: John Dos Passos, the Cut-up, and WWI" in WWrite, a blog hosted by the United States World War I Centennial Commission.[11]
¶ Publications
- Waking Up to History: John Dos Passos, the Cut-up, and WWI
- February 1, 2024: "I Am Julian Assange", published by the Honest Media Project
¶ External links
MC Armstrong. Facebook. Retrieved December 8, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.08-223931/https://www.facebook.com/matthew.armstrong.376/ ↩︎ ↩︎
M. C. Armstrong. Bloomsbury Publishing (UK). Retrieved December 8, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.08-224043/https://www.bloomsbury.com/UK/author/m-c-armstrong/ ↩︎
Manuscript Submission Guidelines. MilSpeak Foundation. Retrieved December 8, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.08-231835/https://milspeakfoundation.org/submission-guidelines/ ↩︎
M.C. Armstrong. UNC Greensboro Department of English. Retrieved December 8, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231208223643/https://english.uncg.edu/mfa/alumni/m-c-armstrong/ ↩︎
Armstrong, M. C. (2019, May 20). Waking Up to History: John Dos Passos, the Cut-up, and WWI. World War I Centennial. Retrieved December 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221208052719/https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/articles-posts/6241-waking-up-to-history-john-dos-passos-the-cut-up-and-wwi-by-m-c-armstrong.html ↩︎
M.C. Armstrong. LinkedIn. Retrieved December 7, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.07-223206/https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcarmstrong/?original_referer=https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcarmstrong/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
About. M.C. Armstrong. Retrieved December 18, 2015, from http://archive.today/2015.12.18-181719/http://mcarmstrong.com/about/ ↩︎ ↩︎
The Mysteries of Haditha: A Memoir (Hardcover). Scuppernong Books. Retrieved December 8, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.08-223144/https://www.scuppernongbooks.com/book/9781640123021 ↩︎
Armstrong, M. C. (2015, April 28). The Ghost of Gulf War Syndrome. M.C. Armstrong. http://archive.today/2015.12.06-094324/http://mcarmstrong.com/2015/04/gulfwarsyndrome/ ↩︎
Armstrong, M. C. (2015, May 4). The Secret Life of Bruce Ivins. M.C. Armstrong. http://archive.today/2015.12.06-145153/http://mcarmstrong.com/2015/05/the-secret-life-of-bruce-ivins/ ↩︎
May 2019 - Monthly Archive. World War I Centennial. Retrieved December 11, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.11-211438/https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/wwrite-blog-archive/2019/05.html ↩︎