Credit Morehead State University Even though he is an English instructor at Morehead State University, Dr. Matthew Sutton has had two life-long artistic loves. Growing up in Georgetown with a father who was a high school band director for more than two decades at Scott County (Kentucky) High School, Sutton spent almost just as much time reading as he did, learning to play musical instruments. Those instruments included woodwinds and percussion in his school band or acquiring a "garage-band-level competence" on instruments like guitar and bass. Sutton followed in his father's footsteps and pursued a career in education. He attended the University of Kentucky, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1994 and a Master of Arts in English in 1999. He later went on to earn a Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary in 2011.