Matthew S. Tanico

Matthew S. Tanico, PhD, currently serves as the Graduate School’s Assistant Dean for Graduate Academic Support and Outreach. Matthew manages academic processes and policies related to student registration and academic progress, including course waivers, ad hoc combined degree proposals, extended registration, academic holds and hold waivers, student status changes, graduate credit requests, degree petitions, and withdrawals. He serves as a Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Discrimination and Harassment Resource Coordinator, and Health and Safety Leader in the Graduate School. Matthew also serves as the Graduate School’s director of communications and produces school-wide events such as Matriculation and Commencement. 

From 2018-2021, Matthew was the Associate Director at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). At RITM, among other things, he helped create the Graduate Fellows program and managed a $4M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in collaboration with similar academic centers at Brown, the University of Chicago, and Stanford. Prior to his work at RITM, he was a Project Specialist in both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School Deans’ offices. 

Matthew received his PhD in Spanish and Renaissance Studies from Yale University and a BA in Spanish and Italian (summa cum laude) from New York University. In addition to his administrative roles, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at New York University and Yale, focusing on early modern literature and material culture. His scholarly work has been published in Cervantes, Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, and The Literary Encyclopedia.