Contributors
- Contributors
Kevin Brooks is assistant professor of English at North Dakota State University. He is working with colleagues to create an undergraduate writing studies curriculum, including such courses as “Introduction to Writing Studies,” “Visual Culture and Language,” and “Electronic Communication,” and is developing an on-line project with NDSU graduate students that explores the complications and rewards of teaching multivocal essays in the first-year classroom.
Brenda Jo Brueggemann is associate professor of English at Ohio State University, where she also directs the First-Year Writing Program and has developed an undergraduate interdisciplinary minor in disability studies. She is author of Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (1999) and editor, with Sharon L. Snyder and Rosemarie Garland Thomson, of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (2002). She has published articles in academic and literary journals on rhetoric, disability studies, deaf studies, pedagogy, and teaching writing.
Barbara B. Duffelmeyer is assistant professor of composition theory, pedagogy, and research at Iowa State University. She teaches composition and qualitative research methodology, mentors graduate teaching assistants in the composition program, and has served as interim director of first-year composition. Her research and teaching interests include fostering critical literacy in first-year composition. Her dissertation, “Computer, Critical Literacy, and First-Year Composition: Modestly Re-thinking Some Comfortable Thoughts,” was nominated for the 1999 Hugh Burns Award. She has published articles in Computers and Composition and a chapter in Education and Technology: Critical and Reflective Practices, edited by Robert Muffoletto (2001).
Mark Gellis received his Ph.D. in English (rhetoric and composition) from Purdue University. He has taught at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and is associate professor of communication in the Department of Liberal Studies at Kettering University. [End Page 443]
E. Laurie George joined the English faculty at the University of Washington in 1991, where she served as associate and then acting director of the Expository Writing Program and directed the development of the Computer Integrated Courses Program. She recruits and supports UW humanities faculty seeking to improve their teaching effectiveness via new technologies and continues to design and teach her own technology-enhanced courses.
Denise Jacobs is a member of the Women’s and Gender Study faculty at Louisiana State University and a full-time instructor of English in LSU’s First-Year Writing Program. She teaches both business writing and a composition class with an emphasis on cultural literacy, the product of a service-learning teacher-incentive grant she won in 2001. She is developing an ENG/WGS special topics class that looks at lesbian images in young adult literature.
Adam Knee is visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Bucknell University. He has taught at universities in Australia, Taiwan, and Thailand.
Benton Jay Komins is external research fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University. He has taught American culture and literature and has designed a humanities core curriculum for a university in Turkey. He has published essays on comparative literature, cultural studies, and curriculum development.
Jennifer Maier is assistant professor of English and creative writing at Seattle Pacific University. Her literary work and teaching center on twentieth-century American poetry; she also teaches poetry workshops and directs the Women’s Studies Program. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Image, the Comstock Review, and other publications.
Sharon L. Mazer is head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is author of Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle (1998), and her articles on popular performance have appeared in TDR, Theatre Annual, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, Body/Shows, and Bodies out of Bounds. [End Page 444]
Debra A. Moddelmog is professor of English at Ohio State University, where she is also director of graduate studies in English and co-coordinator of the undergraduate interdisciplinary minor in sexuality studies. Her most recent book is Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway (1999), and she has published essays on various twentieth-century American writers.
David G. Nicholls is director of book publications at the Modern Language Association of America. He has taught humanities and American literature at universities in...
