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Dr Keri Matwick
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities
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Dr. Matwick is a Senior Lecturer at the Language and Communication Centre (LCC), School of Humanities (SoH). She joined NTU in 2018 and teaches CC0001: Inquiry and Communication in an Interdisciplinary World; HW0208: Academic Communications in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and HWG0704: Research Communication for Graduate Students. Keri is a Coordinator for CC0001, a university core course that consists of over 60 tutors and 5,500 students.
Her research uses multimodal discourse analysis to examine the construction of identity in food media, such as cooking shows, cookbooks, traditional media (news), and social media (Instagram).
With her twin sister Kelsi, Keri wrote a book on 'food discourse,’ the written, spoken, and visual text about food, including its preparation, preparation, and consumption, and how it expresses individual and collective sociocultural values about food. Focusing on cooking shows, Kelsi and Keri examined how storytelling, humor, and evaluations are important narrative elements in instructing and entertaining viewers about food.
As the founder and Coordinator of NTU's School of Humanities Food Studies Research Cluster, Keri is active in hosting international, interdisciplinary online symposiums as well as arranging field site visits to food places, such as plant-based restaurants and hawker centres.
https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/research/food-studies
https://sites.google.com/view/language-of-food/home
She is the inaugural editor of Pioneer Road: Journal of Undergraduate Research, an interdisciplinary student journal published annually that features exemplary student works.
https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/pioneerroad/
Her latest research involves a study of the discourses surrounding novel foods, such as cultivated meat and plant-based alternative proteins. She was awarded a MOE Tier 1 grant to study the discourse of novel foods in traditional and social media, 2022-2025.
Keri welcomes student projects on food and language.
Her research uses multimodal discourse analysis to examine the construction of identity in food media, such as cooking shows, cookbooks, traditional media (news), and social media (Instagram).
With her twin sister Kelsi, Keri wrote a book on 'food discourse,’ the written, spoken, and visual text about food, including its preparation, preparation, and consumption, and how it expresses individual and collective sociocultural values about food. Focusing on cooking shows, Kelsi and Keri examined how storytelling, humor, and evaluations are important narrative elements in instructing and entertaining viewers about food.
As the founder and Coordinator of NTU's School of Humanities Food Studies Research Cluster, Keri is active in hosting international, interdisciplinary online symposiums as well as arranging field site visits to food places, such as plant-based restaurants and hawker centres.
https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/research/food-studies
https://sites.google.com/view/language-of-food/home
She is the inaugural editor of Pioneer Road: Journal of Undergraduate Research, an interdisciplinary student journal published annually that features exemplary student works.
https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/pioneerroad/
Her latest research involves a study of the discourses surrounding novel foods, such as cultivated meat and plant-based alternative proteins. She was awarded a MOE Tier 1 grant to study the discourse of novel foods in traditional and social media, 2022-2025.
Keri welcomes student projects on food and language.
discourse analysis, multimodality, media discourse, sociolinguistics; food, language & culture; food studies
- Novel Foods: A discourse analysis of the media and public awareness, understanding, and perceptions of novel foods in Singapore
- Linguistic Landscape and Culinary Nationalism: Singapore Hawker Centres Home and Abroad
Awards
Fulbright Scholar, Honduras, 2018
Bronze Award, AMEC 2023 Award, “Perceptions Towards Novel Foods”, category Most Effective Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Public and Non-for-Profit Sectors, collaboration with Truescope, Singapore. (AMEC- International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication)
Bronze Award, AMEC 2023 Award, “Perceptions Towards Novel Foods”, category Most Effective Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Public and Non-for-Profit Sectors, collaboration with Truescope, Singapore. (AMEC- International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication)
Courses Taught
CC0001: Inquiry and Communication in an Interdisciplinary World
HW0207/0208: Academic Communication in the Social Sciences
HWG704: Research Communication for Graduate Studies
HW0207/0208: Academic Communication in the Social Sciences
HWG704: Research Communication for Graduate Studies
Supervision of PhD Students
URECA projects:
2024: Vincent Li Won Fung, "Investigating Citizen Perceptions of Food System Resilience and Crises in Singapore”
2025: Yan Qian Ying, "Singapore’s love affair for fast food: A study of consumption patterns and lifestyle”
2025: Tai Wing Xin, “Social media’s contribution to local café culture”
2024: Vincent Li Won Fung, "Investigating Citizen Perceptions of Food System Resilience and Crises in Singapore”
2025: Yan Qian Ying, "Singapore’s love affair for fast food: A study of consumption patterns and lifestyle”
2025: Tai Wing Xin, “Social media’s contribution to local café culture”