Rhetorica in Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies

Contributors

221 Contributors joanne addison is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Colorado Denver. She writes about empirical methods and methodologies in literacy studies with a focus on the use of digital technologies in understanding literacy as it is lived. In addition to her work using experience sampling methods, she and Sharon James McGee are also engaged in a study of writing in high schools and colleges across the United States that is funded by CCCC. bernadette m. calafell is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver. She has published articles in various journals such as Text and Performance Quarterly, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Cultural Studies = Critical Methodologies, Communication Review, and the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. She is also the author of Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance (2007). ilene whitney crawford is an associate professor of English and women ’s studies at Southern Connecticut State University. Her work has appeared in Composition Forum, JAC, Academic Writing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Disciplines and the collection A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies, edited by Laura R. Micciche and Dale Jacobs. jay dolmage is the coordinator of the first-year writing program at West Virginia University. His research looks at the intersections of rhetoric, disability studies, and pedagogy. His essay “Breathe Upon Us an Even Flame: Hephaestus , History, and the Body of Rhetoric” was the Rhetoric Review Theresa Enos Award Winner in 2006; the essay “Metis, Mestiza, Medusa: Rhetorical Bodies across Rhetorical Traditions” is the lead essay in the January 2008 issue of the same journal. His work has also appeared in JAC, CCC, College English, Prose Studies, and several edited collections. gwen gorzelsky is associate professor in the Department of English at Wayne State University. She has recent and forthcoming articles on literacy, 222 Contributors pedagogy, and research methods in College Composition and Communication and Socially Progressive Research Methodologies for the Study of Writing and Literacy. She is the author of The Language of Experience: Literate Practices and Social Change (2005). wendy hesford, associate professor of English at The Ohio State University , is the author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy (1999), coeditor with Wendy Kozol of Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the “Real” (2000) and Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and The Politics of Representation (2005), and coauthor with Brenda Jo Brueggemann of Rhetorical Visions: Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture (2006). Hesford’s second single-authored book, Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights, Feminisms, and the Transnational Imaginary, is forthcoming. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a NEH Summer Seminar fellowship, 2007 Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights, OSU Seed Grant, OSU Research Enhancement Grant, several FTAD Seed Grants, and most recently the MLA 2005 Florence Howe essay award. She has published essays in various journals, including PMLA, Biography, College English, JAC, and TDR: Journal of Performance Studies, among others. cynthia lewiecki-wilson is professor of English and director of graduate studies at Miami University. Her research interests include feminist and disability rhetoric and composition studies. She has authored and coedited articles , chapters, and books, including Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture (2001) with James C. Wilson and Disability and the Teaching of Writing : A Critical Sourcebook (2008) with Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Jay Dolmage. New projects include a study of disability discourses in civic debates and a forthcoming collection, Disability and Mothering: Intersections of Cultural Embodiment , coedited with Jen Cellio. heidi a. mckee is an assistant professor of English at Miami University, where she serves on the institutional review board. She also serves as cochair of the national Qualitative Research Network. She has published numerous articles on digital writing studies, and she is coeditor with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss of the collection Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues, which won the Computers and Writing award for Best Book of 2007. With James Porter, she coauthored the forthcoming The Ethics of Internet Research: A Rhetorical, Case-Based Approach. laura r. micciche is associate professor of English and director of composition at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches writing, rhetoric, and pedagogy courses. A longstanding interest of hers is how writing becomes a frequent site of political, economic, and affective contestation. Her scholarly work includes Doing Emotion: Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching (2007), A Way to Move: [3...