Contributors
- Contributors
Sarah Finn is associate teaching professor of English at Northeastern University, where she has taught writing courses in the English department and writing program for the past seven years. She received a PhD in composition and rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she won the residential First-Year Student Choice Award. Her current experience and areas of interest include first-year writing, interdisciplinary writing, multilingual writing, affect, technology and the construction of human values, and community engagement. Professor Finn's courses emphasize writing for social justice and exploring ways to accomplish social change.
Alexandra M. Hill is professor of German at the University of Portland, where she directs the German program and codirects gender and women's studies. She teaches all levels of German, from beginning language courses to seminars titled German Women's Writing, Remembering Divided Germany, and Multicultural Society. Feminist theory infuses Hill's teaching, and she seeks to diversify the variety of life experiences represented in each course she teaches, including beginning German.
Michal Horton researches the pedagogical and curricular implications of using thematic course content to structure students' learning about writing. She also offers writing consultation services for start-up companies out of Station Houston. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University, where she teaches business communication.
Jen McDaneld teaches American literature and core curriculum courses in the English department at the University of Portland, where she is also coleading a new public humanities program. Her research focuses on suffrage literature, US women's rights movements, and feminist pedagogy, with essays recently published in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Feminist Teacher.
Lisa Nienkark is professor of reading in the Integrated English Department at Lansing Community College, where she currently teaches integrated reading and writing courses. She has more than thirty years of teaching experience at postsecondary institutions in the United States and abroad.
Alisa Russell is an assistant professor of English at Wake Forest University. Her areas of interest include rhetorical genre studies, public writing, and writing across the curriculum, and her research focuses on increasing community access through writing and writing innovations. Alisa's work has appeared in journals including Composition Forum, The WAC Journal, and The Clearing House, and she currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Association for Writing across the Curriculum.
Patrick Sullivan teaches English at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut. He is the 2011 recipient of the Nell Ann Pickett Service Award for outstanding service to the two-year college. He is the author of A New Writing Classroom and Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, and the American Community College (2017). He is editor of 16 Teachers Teaching (2020) and coeditor, with Howard Tinberg, of What Is "College-Level" Writing? (2006) and, with Howard Tinberg and Sheridan Blau, of What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2 (2010) and Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom (2017), which was awarded the 2019 CCCC Outstanding Book Award for Edited Collection.
Missy Watson is assistant professor at City College of New York (CUNY), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition, pedagogy, language, and literacy. Her research lies at the intersection of composition and second-language writing and revolves around seeking social and racial justice. Her recent publications can be found in the Journal of Basic Writing, Basic Writing e-Journal, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, and the Journal of Second Language Writing.
Sarah Weiger is associate professor of English and environmental studies at the University of Portland. She teaches the courses Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Environmental Literature, and Literature and Posthumanism, as well as courses in introductory literature. Her courses feature literary engagements with the nonhuman, as well as texts of all kinds that grapple with environmental challenges and climate change.
Stephanie White is a writing and multimodal communication specialist at the University of Waterloo's Writing and Communication Centre, where she oversees two peer tutoring programs. Previously, Stephanie taught and consulted on writing and communication courses across the disciplines.
