Contributors
- Contributors
Daphna Atias is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Her research interests center on early American literature, particularly on textual circulation, reception, and adaptation; material culture; and food and cookery. In addition to her experience teaching at the high school and college levels, she is a graduate teaching consultant for the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
Michael Brisbois is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary and a sessional instructor at Grant MacEwan University. His teaching is based on the twin ideas of cooperative learning and a dynamic classroom. His research has recently focused on the role of millenarianism in the works of Yeats, Eliot, and Auden.
Laura A. Ewing is a doctoral candidate in rhetoric and composition theory at the University of South Florida. She specializes in intercultural technical communication, global writing studies, and the role of digital media in writing. For her dissertation research, she is currently conducting a two-year research study in Japan directed at examining the ways new media technologies are approached in Japanese higher education and how American universities might benefit from integrating global writing practices in the classroom.
Christopher Hanlon is professor of American literature at Eastern Illinois University. He is the author of America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism (2013) and his essays on US literature, culture, and intellectual history have appeared in journals such as American Literary History, American Literature, College Literature, and Pedagogy.
Bev Hogue is McCoy professor of English at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, where she teaches American literature courses and a variety of writing courses, including freshman composition, creative nonfiction, and nature writing. [End Page 563]
Susan E. Hrach has been teaching at Columbus State University since 1999. Her research interests include Renaissance women writers, manuscript texts, and translation studies. The courses she teaches most often are World Literature and Renaissance Literature, including Shakespeare. She is the 2013 winner of the Board of Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award for the University System of Georgia and has led a number of summer study abroad programs in the United Kingdom and Italy.
Ruth M. McAdams is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. She studies British literature of the long nineteenth century, with an interest in material textuality and historiography. The working title for her dissertation is “Victorians Reading the Early Nineteenth Century: Books, Things, Histories.”
Marielle Risse’s research areas are Omani culture/history, connecting Middle Eastern and Western writers in literature classrooms, and intercultural communication/competence. She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Her work has been published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, TESOL Arabia’s Perspective, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, and the book Travel Culture (edited by Carol Traynor Williams, 1998). Her most recent work is the “Reader’s Guide” for the English version of Khadija al-Thahab’s Stories of My Grandmother (2012).
Tana Schiewer is a PhD student in the Rhetoric and Writing Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her primary research interests revolve around hospitality in various forms, including civic engagement and the power of positive rhetoric both in and outside the classroom. Schiewer taught first-year composition while completing her MA at the University of Toledo and is currently serving as the graduate research assistant in the Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society.
Gillian Steinberg is associate professor of English at Yeshiva University, where she directs the First Year Writing program. She is the author of Philip Larkin and His Audiences (2010) and Thomas Hardy: The Poems (2013), as well as articles on modern poetry, Philip Roth’s short fiction, and pedagogy. [End Page 564]
Stefanie Stiles is the Writing Centre coordinator and faculty member in the University of Lethbridge’s Academic Writing Program. She completed her PhD in English in October 2012 at the University of Waterloo. Her major research interests are twentieth-century American literature, ethical criticism, and pedagogy. She has previously published in College English.
Theresa Tinkle is associate chair...
