Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres

Contributors

337 C on t r ib u t o r s Chanon Adsanatham, doctoral candidate at Miami University, researches comparative rhetoric, Thai rhetoric, multimodality, and digital multimodal pedagogy. His works examine theories and heuristics for teaching multimodal composing and rhetorics beyond the Euroamerican tradition. At Miami he has worked as a digital pedagogy consultant and as the assistant director of the portfolio assessment program. Cheryl E. Ball is associate professor of New Media Studies at Illinois State University , previously of Utah State University, from 2004–7, where she met Tia Bowen and Tyrell Brent Fenn in a 2006 class. She is editor of Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and her interests include editorial pedagogies, multimodal composition, digital media scholarship, and digital publishing. Her portfolio can be found at http://www.ceball.com/. Tia Scoffield Bowen graduated from Utah State University with a BS in exercise science and an English minor. She is an event videographer working 338  Contributors independently toward incorporation and has filmed weddings and couples, documentary-style interviews, birth stories, and company projects. Her online portfolio can be found at http://www.tiasbowen.blogspot.com. Tracey Bowen is a lecturer on mass communications and popular culture and coordinates an internship program for the Institute of Communications, Culture , and Information Technology at the University of Toronto–Mississauga. Her research focuses on visual literacy and the use of visual rhetoric within digital environments, particularly in terms of globalization and counternormative narratives. Her work has been published through Inter-Disciplinary Press, the Journal of Popular Culture, Studies in Art Education, and Higher Education Research and Development. She coedited Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds with Mary Lou Nemanic (2010). Jerome Bump (http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/) is a professor of English at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest publication is “Racism and Appearance in The Bluest Eye: A Template for an Ethical Emotive Criticism,” College Literature 37, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 147–70. He was the first director of the Digital Writing and Research Lab (http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/) and the author of essays in Computers and Education, Computers and the Humanities, and Currents in Electronic Literacy. He has written papers on computers and English presented at NCTE, CCCC, CCTE, Computers and Writing conferences, and at the Universities of Paris, Pittsburgh, and Indiana. Kerrie L. Carsey is an assistant professor of composition and rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include rhetorical theory, religious rhetorics, composition pedagogy, and the history of rhetoric. She received her PhD from Miami University in 2011. Colin Charlton is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Texas–Pan American. He coordinates the Transitional Reading/ Writing Program, runs an immersive writing STUDIO for developmental students , and publishes the multimodal online magazine inQuiry (http://infiniteinq .blogspot.com). In all these projects he looks for ways to write, read, and learn with colleagues and students in innovative forms that compel engagement and dispel myths. Jonikka Charlton is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition and an associate vice provost for Student Success Initiatives at the University of Texas– Pan American. In both of these positions she pursues opportunities to support Contributors  339 programs that help students engage in meaningful intellectual work. One of her biggest hopes is that students will come to see themselves as belonging to a dynamic intellectual community, one whose borders extend well beyond the university . Nathaniel I. Córdova was a professor of rhetoric and media studies at Willamette University in Oregon. He was killed in a motorcycle accident on July 16, 2011. His website (http://www.nachocordova.org/) reads: “The temple bell stops but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers.” An e-memorial for Nacho is maintained at http://nacho-cordova.blogspot.com/2011/07/it-is-with-deep -regret-that-we-are.html?show. Abby M. Dubisar, assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty member in women’s and gender studies at Iowa State University, works in the areas of multimodal writing, activist and feminist rhetorics, disability studies, and writing in the disciplines. Erik Ellis is a lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University . His multimedia piece “‘Completely out of My Domain’: An Institutional Narrative of Multimedia Collaboration,” coauthored with Dave Underwood, appears in the special issue of CCC Online devoted to infrastructures of twentyfirst -century writing instruction, edited by Christine Alfano. Wioleta Fedeczko is...