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Sarah E. Austin is an instructor of English at the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School. She has a masters of education in reading and English education from Salisbury University and an MA degree in rhetoric and composition from Colorado State University. Austin is also the acting Second V.P. for the CoTESOL board.
TJ Boisseau is the director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and an associate professor of history at Purdue University.
Sara Hosey is the coordinator of the Women’s Studies Project and an assistant professor of English at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York. Her work on representations of domesticity has appeared in journals including Feminist Formations and on the blog Feminist Wire, and she has recently published a first-year college writing textbook, titled Wide Awake: Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically.
Sridevi Nair is an assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University. Her scholarly interests are in representational cultures as sites for understanding identity and identity political frameworks in the contexts of globalization and transnationalism.
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Kristine Blair, coeditor, is a professor of English at Bowling Green State University. As a faculty member in the Rhetoric and Writing doctoral program, she has taught undergraduate courses in classroom technologies, language arts, and fully online writing courses for adult learners; and doctoral-level courses in digital rhetoric, research methods, and scholarly publishing. The coauthor and editor of several collections and textbooks, along with numerous articles and book chapters on gender and technology, online learning, and digital pedagogies, Blair serves as editor of both the international print journal Computers and Composition and its separate companion journal Computers and Composition Online.
Melody Bowdon is the executive director of the Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for [End Page 151] Teaching and Learning and a professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters about service-learning and community engagement as well as three books: Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication (2003) with Blake Scott, Scholarship for Sustaining Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (2008) with Shelley Billig and Barbara Holland, and Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships (2011) with Russell Carpenter. Since 1992, Melody has taught more than sixty service-learning courses at three universities, and she continues to conduct research in this field in her role as Florida Campus Compact Senior Research Fellow, which she has held since 2005.
Jennifer Clifton is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her scholarship puts theories and rhetorics of public life, deliberative arts, and situated action to work in current contexts where globalization and transnational movement complicate the conditions and consequences of engagement in public life. She takes up this work to better understand what everyday people are up against and what they are up to as they seek to construct and navigate their own and others’ identities, social and economic practices, and versions of stranger-relationality in localized, yet often transnational contexts.
Tobi Jacobi, coeditor, is an associate professor of English at Colorado State University where she teaches literacy and writing courses in the rhetoric and composition program and directs the Community Literacy Center. Her research centers on feminist approaches to community literacy, and her co-edited collection, Women, Writing and Prison: Activists, Scholars, and Writers Speak Out, was published in 2014.
Lissa Pompos Mansfield is a graduate student in the Rhetoric and Composition program at the University of Central Florida. As a graduate teaching associate, she instructs first-year writing courses in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. She also works as a research assistant at the Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. Her research interests include service-learning, place-based pedagogy, environmental rhetoric, feminism, writing across the curriculum, and faculty development. She is currently working on her thesis and plans to graduate in the Spring 2015 semester.
Vanessa L. Marr is a part-time lecturer in women’s and gender studies at Eastern Michigan University, where she teaches introductory courses on gender and sexuality. A proud working-class queer...
