About Matthew Goode

My parents tell me that I have always been an observer. One of the funny stories in our family is how I preferred to watch the other kids splash around in the public swimming pool while my younger brother, Zach, dove in feet first.

I was born in Sydney, Australia in the mid-1970s and raised in a bicultural family. My mother grew up in the village of Moss Vale, a rural community in the Southern Highlands outside Sydney; and my father came up in a handful of small towns on Cape Cod, that curled finger of land adjoining Boston and the rest of Massachusetts in the U.S.

We moved from Australia to the U.S. when I was almost three years old, living first in student housing in Bloomington, Indiana while my dad earned his doctorate in history; then Athens, Georgia for two years; and after that Grand Haven, Michigan, a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan a few hours north of Chicago.

I completed my undergraduate studies at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and my master’s and doctorate in international education at the University of Minnesota. After working closely with international students and faculty at the U of MN for several years, I followed my fascination with teaching into a position with Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence. In 2023, I joined Brown University’s Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning as the Director of Operations and the Brown Learning Collaborative. I’m also a Faculty Affiliate with Brown’s Education department.

I’ve taught undergraduate students and adult learners and I actively publish and present on topics related to intercultural competence. I live with my husband, Jeffrey, and our cuddly cat, Muffin, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

[Here’s an interview I did with the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research at Purdue University in 2022.]