Contributors
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Mary K. Assad is a Lecturer in English as a Second Language at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches international students and also serves as a first-year advisor. With a research focus in medical rhetoric, she brings issues of health, illness, and personal narratives into her ESL classes as well as other writing-intensive courses at the university.
Sarita Nyasha Cannon is Associate Professor of English at San Francisco State University where she teaches 20th-century American Literature. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in Literature, earned a Ph.D. in English from University of California, Berkeley, and held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in American Indian Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Cannon’s scholarship has appeared in Interdisciplinary Humanities, The Black Scholar, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies, Callaloo, MELUS, and African Voices.
Dawn F. Colley is a lecturer in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she earned her doctorate in English. Her current research interests include visual rhetoric, multimodal composition, and animal rhetorics.
Jason Corner received his Ph.D in English at The Ohio State University, where he completed a dissertation on genre and ethical problems in Herman Melville. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Focused Inquiry in the University College of Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and two children.
Mariah Crilley is a PhD candidate in English literature at West Virginia University. Her dissertation studies how early American writers represent disease as material agents.
Jake Ferrington is a PhD student in American literature and a composition instructor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is interested how scientific advancements shape the human experience through nineteenth century American literature. He is also rather new to all of this, and he finds writing about himself in the third person to be a gas.
Africa Fine has more than 17 years of college teaching experience and has been a professional writer for 20 years. She has published five novels, [End Page 402] Katrina (2001), Becoming Maren (2003), Looking for Lily (2008), Save Me (2009), and Swan (2010). She earned a master’s degree in English Literature from Florida Atlantic University and bachelor’s degrees from Duke University in Public Policy and African American Studies. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Literature at Palm Beach State College.
Jennifer Gehrman earned her Ph.D. In Literature and Language from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1996. Her dissertation was on Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911). She has been teaching in the English Department at Fort Lewis College for twenty years and specializes in the preparation of high school English teachers.
Luis F. Paganelli Marin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Arkansas. His research focuses on coloniality as it relates to Afro-Caribbean narratives in American literature.
Courtney Mauck is a Master’s candidate in Pedagogy and Writing at Northern Michigan University. She writes nonfiction and teaches Composition in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Jon Ostenson began his teaching career working with middle school and high school students; he taught at those levels for eleven years as he worked towards a PhD degree. He now teaches at Brigham Young University, where he specializes in teacher preparation, adolescent literature, and composition pedagogy.
Sally B. Palmer is Professor of English at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
Alex Poole (PhD, Oklahoma State University, 2003) is an applied linguist whose interests include focus on form instruction, Spanish-English bilingualism, and reading strategies. He regularly publishes articles on these topics and presents at national and international conferences. Dr. Poole directs the ESL Endorsement/TESOL Graduate Certificate programs at Western Kentucky University.
Matt Seymour is a Ph.D. student in the department of Teaching & Learning at The Ohio State University. He earned a Master of Arts in Teaching with an emphasis in English education and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Northern Colorado. He also holds an English language teaching endorsement for the University of Cambridge and earned a fellowship at the Folger...
