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María del Carmen Quintero Aguiló holds a PhD in the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Caribbean from the University of Puerto Rico. Her area of specialization is Caribbean poetry with an emphasis on the works of Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite from a postcolonial ecocritical perspective. She is presently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico.

Mary K. Assad is a full-time Lecturer in English as a Second Language at Case Western Reserve University, where she teaches writing and language classes for international students and serves as a first-year advisor. She also teaches a professional writing course for biomedical art students at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her research interests include medical rhetoric, visual rhetoric, comics, and composition theory and practice.

Julie Barak is a Professor of English at Colorado Mesa University.

María Odette Canivell Arzú is an academic, novelist, and recipient of an Alien O-1 visa status (for "individuals with extraordinary ability or achievement") who has worked as a professor in Spain, Guatemala, and the US for many years. She is the author of several novels, children stories, articles about utopia, and studies of literary criticism as well as critical reviews about film. Her areas of expertise include Latin American and Transatlantic literature, cultural and interdisciplinary studies, and philosophy. Her new book, Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quijote as National Heroes, analyzes the competing narratives of Britain and Spain and the way in which each state "markets" its Weltanschauung.

Danielle Clapham is a PhD candidate in literature at Marquette University. She is the 2019-2020 English Department Dissertation Fellow for her project, When the Foreign Became Familiar: Modernism, Expatriation, and Spatial Identities in the 20th Century. In addition to her research, she serves as the Assistant Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center at Marquette University, where she focusses on increasing the accessibility of campus resources for students with disabilities.

Susan Friedman teaches English, Creative Writing, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her scholarship focuses on life-writing and implementing liberatory and feminist pedagogical practices in the college classroom. She has presented five scholarly papers at CEA conferences.

Lee Anna Maynard is an Assistant Professor at Augusta University, where she teaches children's and adolescent literature, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, and composition. Her research often explores children's literature and pedagogy. Her book, Beautiful Boredom: Idleness and Feminine Self-Realization in the Victorian Novel, analyzes representations and functions of boredom in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Julie D. Nelson is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina Central University, where she teaches courses in rhetoric and composition. Her research interests include rhetorical theory, affect and emotion studies, and archival work. She has published work in enculturation, Radical Pedagogy, and Composition Forum.

Josh Privett is an Advanced Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at Georgia State University, where he teaches freshmen writing on the Trump administration, religious studies, and foodways as well as upper-level courses in business writing and grammar. He is currently writing his dissertation about contemporary American literature, religion, and secularization. He has published work on Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, and Zadie Smith and has also co-authored the student's and teacher's editions of an American literature anthology.

Karen Schiler is Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma City University. She teaches both rhetorical and creative writing as well as the occasional literature course. Her work explores writing pedagogies, and the composition of ethos and imaginaries. She is specifically interested in how this occurs in rhetorics of nonviolence and literature for adolescents.

Jay Shelat studies contemporary literature at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His research interests range from post-9/11 trauma and narratology to contemporary Bollywood film and music.

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