Epic of Gilgamesh and Feminist Rhetoric

Daneryl Weber is Professor of English at SUNY Sullivan Community College, where she teaches literature, writing, and composition classes. She taught English as a Second Language in Germany for ten years before returning to the States to obtain her doctorate in English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition and has also taught and volunteered in medium and maximum security prisons for nearly twenty years. She is coordinator of the Alternatives to Violence Project at Woodbourne CF in NY, where she also occasionally teaches keyboard classes for Rehabilitation Through the Arts.

Claire Oldham Griffith (she/hers) received her PhD from the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University and her MA in Technical Communication from Texas Tech University. Her dissertation, “Rhetorics of the Small: The Everyday Phenomena of the Home” is a feminist inquiry into small, daily actions and practices of three generations of women in her family as rhetorical meaning-making. Influenced by a background in technical writing, her larger research interests seek to connect the technical and digital aspects of communication to larger social-cultural theories of place, space, and embodied experience. Her interest in cultural rhetorics and feminist theory largely shape her commitment to interdisciplinarity, multimodality, and pedagogical theory in both first-year composition and professional writing contexts.

I am an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston where I teach courses in and direct the Professional and New Media Writing Program. My scholarly work appears in Peitho, College Composition and Communication, College English, Pedagogy, QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, and in edited collections including the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric and the Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric. I like opera and dogs. If I had a theme song it would be Tegan and Sara's "Everything Is Awesome."

Aminat Yetunde Oyelude is a second-year graduate student in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication (WRTC) program. She is also a first-year writing instructor. Aminat is passionate about social and cultural subjects such as pop culture, feminism, religion, and authentic voices. Outside of school, you'll find her enjoying music, binge-watching Korean dramas, or trying to find answers to existential questions.

Writer, rhetorician and scholar of composition, revising the rhetorics that shape educational equity and strategically devalue difference.

Tara Pauliny is the Director of the UMass Amherst Writing Program and a Senior Lecturer. She earned her PhD in rhetoric and composition/English from the Ohio State University in 2002 and has served as a faculty member and writing program administrator at several academic institutions. She has taught courses in writing, rhetoric, gender studies, and liberal studies and has been a Writing Center Director, Director of Writing Programs, Writing Across the Curriculum Director, and Academic Director of Liberal Studies.

I am a second-year PhD student at Syracuse University where I am studying Decolonial Feminist Rhetorics from a Latinx perspective. I received my Bachelor's and my Master's degree from the University of Texas at El Paso, where I studied English and American Literature with a focus on Latinx and Caribbean Literature. El Paso Texas is not just where I received these degrees; it is the city in which I grew up and have had my own lived experience as a Chicana, and my lived experience is why I am studying Rhetoric from a decolonial feminist standpoint. Aside from being a student, I teach First-Year Writing at Syracuse University.

Lisa L. Phillips’s research interests include environmental, Indigenous, and intersectional feminist rhetorics at intersection with sensation and embodiment. She is a faculty affiliate in the Climate Center and Women's & Gender Studies programs at Texas Tech. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical theory, history, and analysis, technical communication, sensory rhetorics, multimodal composition, human-centered artificial intelligence, and professional writing. Her interdisciplinary research focuses primarily on socio-environmental issues as these emerge in the public sphere through protests regarding deteriorating environmental conditions, with particular attention to the disproportionate effects of environmental change on historically marginalized communities. She is the author of Olfactory Rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems. https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215937.html

I am a six-year Lecturer in the UNCG English Department, as well as a third-year PhD student focusing on Rhetoric & Composition. I research declinism in current popular culture and political rhetorics, linking declinism to ongoing rhetorical research on digital imaginaries, nostalgia, public memory, and feminism.