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  • Contributors

Helane Androne is associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio, Middletown, where she teaches composition, African American literature, and Latino literature and serves as interim director of the Ohio Writing Project at the Oxford campus, a site of the National Writing Project. She is a member of the National Council for Teachers of English and sits on the editorial board for Open Words: Journal of College English and Open Access. She is currently editing a book tentatively titled, Teaching Con/text: Frameworks for Engaging Culture and Craft in American Literatures.

Lee Bebout is assistant professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where he teaches courses in Chicana/o literature, US multi-ethnic literature, and critical race theory. He is the author of Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies (2011). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imaginary in Brown and White.”

Lynn Z. Bloom is Aetna Chair of Writing and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut. Two rotator cuff surgeries led her to write “(Im)Patient,” to develop the course analyzed here, to discuss “Medical Nonfiction at the Cutting Edge” in her forthcoming book Hot Genres, Alluring Nonfiction, and to embark on a New Zealand Fulbright in 2013.

Annette Lucksinger teaches at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. She also works as a consultant in the writing center there. Her courses have included Sense of Place in Literature and first-year, interdisciplinary writing classes about the 1960s, literature and philosophy, and ecology and the environment.

Rebecca Olson is assistant professor of English at Oregon State University. She is the author of Arras Hanging: The Textile That Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama (2013), as well as articles on Shakespeare and Spenser. Her ongoing research interests include word/image studies, early modern material culture, and Tudor poetry and drama. [End Page 379]

Alexandria Peary is associate professor and the first-year writing coordinator at Salem State University. Her third book of poetry, Control Bird Alt Delete (2014), received the 2013 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the coeditor (with Tom C. Hunley) of Creative Writing Studies: A Guide to Its Pedagogies (2014). Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, WAC Journal, New Writing: International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, and Journal of Aesthetic Education.

Richard C. Raymond teaches literature and composition at Mississippi State University, where he has also served as head of the Department of English since 2004. Raymond has also served as Fulbright Professor of American literature at the University of Shkodra in Albania (2003) and at the University of Pristina in Kosovo (2012).

Tara Williams, associate professor of English and associate dean of the University Honors College at Oregon State University, has published on medieval literature and culture as well as pedagogical issues. She is the author of Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing (2011). Her current research examines the connections between magic, spectacle, and morality in fourteenth-century texts.

Anne-Marie Womack teaches first-year writing at Tulane University as a postdoctoral teaching fellow. She has also taught a wide range of courses in rhetoric and composition, including modern rhetorical theory, rhetoric of style, and advanced composition. Her manuscript in progress presents pedagogy methods for new teachers of writing.

Elizabeth Zold is assistant professor at Winona State University. She has published in the journal Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries and contributed to the edited collection Topographies of the Imagination: New Approaches to Daniel Defoe (2013 [forthcoming]). Her current research focuses on eighteenth-century travel writing and women’s life writing. [End Page 380]

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