Matthew Van Meter

Matthew Van Meter is the son of two educators, and attended Moorestown Friends School, a private Quaker school near Philadelphia, USA.  He is a 2007 graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, USA, where he studied Russian Language and Comparative Literature, completing also a year of study at Irkutskii Gosudarstvenyi Universitet.  After graduating from Middlebury College, he began to teach at St. Andrew’s School, a boarding school in Delaware, USA, where he taught 9th-12th grade World Literature, Drama, and Post-Soviet Russian History.  At St. Andrew’s, he also coached men’s soccer and men’s lacrosse.
Matthew’s academic interests lie in Russian literature, contemporary Russian culture and politics, American literature, and physics.  When not studying or teaching, he enjoys backpacking, singing, and theatre.  He is also a
competitive Nordic skier.
Matthew loves teaching adolescents and watching students develop the thoughts that will define their lives.  He knows that during every class he learns at least as much as his students do, and loves the thrill of constant discovery.  He loves big questions without easy answers, and thinks they are the only questions worth thinking about.
Life is very short; it should be spent on something important.