Contributors
- Contributors
Dale M. Bauer is a professor of English and women’s studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to writing on feminist and critical pedagogy, she has also published Feminist Dialogics (1988) and Edith Wharton’s Brave New Politics (1994) and has edited collections on Bakhtin and feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper,” and The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing (2001). Her new book, Sex Expression and American Women’s Writing, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press.
John C. Bean is a professor of English at Seattle University, where he holds the title “consulting professor of writing and assessment.” He is the author of Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (1996). He is also the coauthor of three textbooks: Writing Arguments (7th ed., 2007), The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing (4th ed., 2006), and Reading Rhetorically (2nd ed., 2005). Since 2003 he has researched and written on the development of institutional assessment strategies that promote productive faculty conversations about teaching and learning.
Chris Drew is an instructor of English at Lynn University, where he teaches basic writing and freshman English. He is also a doctoral candidate at Temple University. His research interests are in literacy studies, bodily learning practices, and perceptions of language and the effects on identity construction. His dissertation is on the bodily learning habits of student athletes.
Walter Eggers is professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. His subject specialties include Shakespeare, dramatic literature, and teaching itself. For ten years he served as provost, and he has now returned to his vocation full time. This brief essay is a salvo to signal the publication of his own drama anthology.
Scott Ellis is assistant professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University, where he teaches composition and early American literature. He has published articles on Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and digital pedagogy. [End Page 317]
Molly R. Flaspohler serves as chair of reference services at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, where she has been an academic librarian specializing in library instruction and reference services for fifteen years. She obtained her master’s degree in library science from Indiana University, Bloomington, and holds a Master’s of Liberal Arts from the University of Minnesota, Moorhead. She is taking courses toward a doctorate in rhetoric, writing, and culture at North Dakota State University.
Donald E. Hall is Jackson Distinguished Professor of English at West Virginia University, where he also serves as chair of the Department of Foreign Languages. He has written extensively on queer theory, professional studies, and Victorian culture. His latest book project is The Academic Community: A Manual for Change, which will be published by Ohio State University Press in 2007.
Donald C. Jones is associate professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Hartford. He has published articles on writing process theory in JAC and Rhetoric Review. He also is a coauthor of an expressivist/cultural studies writing textbook titled Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Cultures (2003). He is working on an article about the theory wars in composition studies.
Jason B. Jones is an assistant professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. The industrial revolution crops up in his Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature (2006) and in his edition of Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet (forthcoming from Broadview Press).
Virginia Pompei Jones is assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and coordinator of undergraduate English education. Among her publications are articles on the history of rhetoric and the imagination, using alternatives to traditional research paper assignments, empowerment and diversity in writing groups, and collaborative invention.
Kirk Melnikoff is assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, early modern English literature, and film. He is on the editorial staff of Shakespeare Bulletin and is specifically responsible for the journal’s “Shakespeare on Screen” section. His work has appeared in Mosaic, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and Studies in Philology, and he is coeditor of a...
