I am the Associate Director of Writing for UC San Diego's Sixth College. I coordinate our lower-division writing curriculum and I train graduate students to teach writing. When I teach intro writing courses, I ask students to look at the intersection of culture, art, and technology within the field of gothic and horror literature and film.

feminism, public sphere, hip-hop, black feminism

I’m a professor of English at The Ohio State University, specializing in disability studies and rhetoric/composition/literacy. I am a near-constant knitter, an inline skater, and have a service dog named Otis. I am white, a genderqueer femme, and disabled. I use the pronouns she/they.

Krista Ratcliffe is a Foundation Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

Dr. Jeanne Marie Rose teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, and literature at Penn State Berks, including first-year composition, professional writing, rhetorical theory, and the short story. Her work has explored composition pedagogy, composition and literature’s disciplinary relationship, and teaching with technology. She has published in Peitho, Present Tense, Pedagogy, Computers and Composition, and other journals and book collections.

Jessica Alcorn Rose is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Clayton State University. Her research is informed by feminist, digital, and multimodal rhetorics, and centers on what happens at the intersections of communication, culture, and technologies and how public memory is shaped. Secondary interests include archival research, WPA, intergenerational mentorship, and the history of composition.

Sheri Rysdam is Professor of English/Writing and Writing Center Director at Eastern Oregon University. In addition to various publications in writing feminist rhetorics, writing studies, and creative writing, she is co-author of Nonviolent Response: Strategies for Responding to Writing from University of Pittsburgh Press and author of The Doula Dialectic: Feminist Rhetorics for Childbirth from Bloomsbury Publishing. She is also a trained doula.

M.A. in U.S. history, M.A. in translation, M.A. in education. 14 years of teaching in high school (2 years) and university (12 years) in Switzerland and the U.S.A. Currently Principal Lecturer of French at Clemson University and PhD candidate in the Rhetoric Program.

I recently graduated from San Francisco State University with an M.A. in English (Composition), where I also completed graduate certificates in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Postsecondary Reading. My goal is to teach first-year writing at the community college level and create a classroom that is a student-centered, process-based learning environment, which I believe is more important than ever with the rise of generative AI. I'm interested in a wide variety of research topics, but I am especially interested in multimodal composition, alternative instruction, digital gardens, trasnlingualism, and AI in higher education.

Nisha Shanmugaraj (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric with a joint appointment in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and the English Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Working at the intersection of feminist rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, and Asian American rhetorics, her work illuminates and interrogates the “everyday rhetorics” of Asian/American women: how these rhetors employ and interpret communicative acts in their everyday lives. Using rhetorical field methods, Shanmugaraj explores how dominant discourses around race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability shape the lived experiences of Indian American women and how these diasporic subjects envision new rhetorical possibilities through imagined, embodied, affective, and interpersonal sites of meaning. She is currently working on a book project on how Indian American women construct narratives of “unlearning” internalized racism. She teaches courses on intersectional feminism, Asian American rhetorics, social change, and cultural rhetorics.

Dr. Shawna Shapiro teaches academic writing and linguistics at Middlebury College in Vermont. Her research focuses on college transitions for immigrant/refugee students and on innovative approaches to working with linguistically diverse writers. Dr. Shapiro’s work has appeared in many peer-reviewed journals, including College Composition and Communication, WAC Journal, and Research in the Teaching of English. Her most recent book, Cultivating Critical Language in the Writing Classroom (Routledge, 2022) will have a 2nd edition in 2027. (see https://clacollective.org/) Dr. Shapiro has also written for more public audiences, through Inside Higher Ed, The Conversation, and other venues. More at https://sites.middlebury.edu/shapiro