Contributors
- Contributors
Laura L. Aull is assistant professor of English at Wake Forest University. Her work focuses on institutional history and artifacts, corpus linguistics, and rhetorical genre theory.
Erin E. Blankenship is professor of statistics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She teaches graduate courses in mathematical statistics and nonlinear models and is also actively involved in teacher development. Her research focuses on nonlinear models, statistical applications in the life sciences, and statistical education.
James J. Brown Jr. is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He teaches courses in rhetoric, composition, and new media, and his work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Computers and Composition, and The Computer Culture Reader.
Joanne T. Diaz is assistant professor in the Department of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses in literature and creative writing. Her book of poems, The Lessons, was published in 2011 and won the Gerald Cable Book Award.
Andrew Engel is a PhD candidate in English at Wayne State University. His research is at the intersection of spatial rhetorics and digital media theory.
Heidi Estrem is associate professor of English and director of the First-Year Writing Program at Boise State University. Her research interests in first-year writing pedagogy, writing program administration, assessment, and instructor development and support have led to publications in Writing Program Administration, Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, and several edited collections. She regularly teaches both first-year writing and a graduate seminar for new teaching assistants.
Alison J. Friedow is a PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her interests include teacher development and interdisciplinary pedagogy and literacy. She teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, and literacy. Currently, she is teaching English in Japan while finishing her dissertation, which examines the role of interdisciplinary pedagogy in the field of composition. [End Page 591]
Jennifer L. Green is assistant professor in the statistics department and the Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her research focuses on the development of statistical methodology to estimate the impact of teachers on student learning within the context of a professional development program. She teaches courses in statistics and statistics education.
Catherine Gubernatis Dannen is assistant professor of English in the Department of Language and Literatures at Alabama State University in Montgomery, AL, where she teaches upper-level literature and composition courses. She was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Tulane University, Department of English, freshman writing program from 2007 to 2011.
Whitney Hardin is pursuing a PhD in rhetoric and composition at Wayne State University. Her research explores intersections of rhetoric, definitions of citizenship, and post-Fordist labor conditions.
Cathy Hicks-Kennard teaches courses in linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. Her pedagogical interests include linguistics for pre-service teachers, particularly in the areas of sociolinguistics, and second language phonology. She teaches undergraduate introductory courses in linguistics and graduate courses in second language phonetics/phonology, applied sociolinguistics, language and gender, and varieties of English in the master’s TESOL degree program.
Donora Hillard is a graduate teaching assistant at Wayne State University, pursuing a PhD in rhetoric and composition emphasizing poetics and postpedagogy. Her first book is Theology of the Body (2010). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hint Fiction (2010), the Studies in Writing series, and elsewhere.
Colin Irvine is associate professor of English at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN. He is the editor of Teaching the Novel across the Curriculum: A Handbook for Educators (2007), and his essays are included in Time in Television Narrative (2012), Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? (2010), and Papa, Ph.D. (2010). He has published articles in Journal of the West, Midwestern Modern Language Association, Academic Exchange Quarterly, and International Journal of the Humanities. [End Page 592]
Donald C. Jones is associate professor of rhetoric and director of the honors program at the University of Hartford. He has published in College English, Rhetoric Review, Process Papers, and the Journal of Advanced Composition, as well as in Pedagogy. His forthcoming publications include a chapter in the edited collection Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Culture (2013...
