Contributors
- Contributors
Bennett Carpenter is a doctoral student in literature at Duke University. His research interests include Marxism, aesthetic philosophy, comparative modernism(s), and German and British romanticism.
Gretchen L. Dietz is a doctoral student in composition and rhetoric at Miami University where she researches style and aesthetics. She teaches courses in first-year and advanced writing.
Laura Goldblatt is a doctoral student in the English department at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation analyzes US nationalism after the closing of the frontier.
Lauri Bohanan Goodling is instructor of English at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta, Georgia. She is actively engaged in academic technology initiatives at her college and is a PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition at Georgia State University. Her dissertation is heavily focused on civic engagement and new literacies in first-year writing classes.
Lenora Hanson is a graduate student in the English department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research is on British and Italian romanticism, as well as critical theory, with a focus on biopolitics.
K. Shannon Howard is an assistant professor in English specializing in rhetoric and composition at Auburn University at Montgomery. Her research interests include the use of popular culture narratives in the composition classroom, digital rhetoric, and intersections between critical theory and writing studies.
Kate Kostelnik earned her PhD in English from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where she also served as the associate coordinator of the writing center. Her fiction, which earned a 2007 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry and Fifth Wednesday Journal, among other venues. Her scholarship has been published in Creative Writing: Teaching, Theory, and Practice and the Fiction Writers Review, [End Page 577] and her chapter on using writing center pedagogy in the creative writing classroom is forthcoming in Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Tom C. Hunley and Alexandria Peary.
Eric Leake is assistant professor of English at Texas State University, where he teaches first-year writing, rhetorical theory, and composition pedagogy. His research focuses upon empathy studies and nonrational rhetorics.
Megan S. Lloyd is professor of English at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where she teaches Shakespeare, medieval and early modern literature, first-year composition, and critical reading. Her research interests include Shakespeare, early modern drama, and early modern Wales. She is the author of Speak It in Welsh: Wales and the Welsh Language in Shakespeare.
Sean Murray is assistant professor of English composition at the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. His courses, titled Writing for Social Justice, often explore food-related issues, in addition to other student-chosen subjects, such as education, the environment, and the economy. Beyond the classroom, he devotes his energy to a number of service-learning projects and scholarship related to best practices for critical literacy.
Julie Prebel is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Occidental College, where she teaches a range of writing and cultural studies courses that resonate with her wider critical interests in gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and class and social status. In addition to her scholarship in writing studies, she is presently working on a manuscript investigating the ways that controversial sciences in the nineteenth century, such as phrenology and criminology, interacted with reform movements and other cultural concerns of the era.
Paul D. Reich is assistant professor of English and director of the American Studies program at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He teaches courses on nineteenth-and twentieth-century American literature and culture; his pedagogical work on HBO’s The Wire has appeared in Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice.
Craig Rood began his project on rhetorical civility as an MA student in rhetoric/composition at North Dakota State University, where he taught first-year composition and worked in the writing center. He is now a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, [End Page 578] where he has taught public speaking, history and criticism of persuasion and propaganda, and Rhetoric and Civic Life—a yearlong course that integrates written, spoken, visual, and digital communication...
