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

Carolyn Skinner teaches courses in rhetoric, including Arts of Persuasion; Rhetorics of Health, Illness and Wellness; and Methods for the Study of Writing, Rhetoric and Literacy. Her research focuses on historical scientific, professional and medical writing in the 19th-century United States, especially that by and about women. She has examined how early women physicians claimed the authority and expertise to write persuasively as doctors at a time when “woman” and “medical professional” were believed to be incompatible. She has also explored how 19th-century men and women used medical/scientific arguments in the debate over women's rights. Most recently, she has investigated rhetorical reception (how audiences use a text that they read to inform, support or inspire their own writing) as an important form of communicative activity. Throughout her rhetorical research, Dr. Skinner seeks to understand how medical/scientific/professional discourses affected women’s social position and how women themselves used those discourses to affect the world around them.

Alexandra Sladky is a Lecturer in English at Georgia State University where she also directs the First Year Writing Program. She earned a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Georgia State University in 2023. She holds an MA in Latin and Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a BA in Latin from Mount Holyoke College.

Professor of English at St. John Fisher University. After a masters in English from Syracuse, I earned my doctorate at Miami University of Ohio with Susan Jarratt as my dissertation director. I have enjoyed a career teaching writing, rhetoric, American literature, and gender studies.

Nicole's work mixes together critical discourse studies and feminist rhetorics as she investigates the ways in which media institutions attempt to hold politicians accountable for their words and deeds. She has ongoing interests in framing and recontextualization, and how these methods are deployed to depict victims in text. She is also drawn to interactions that take place in political settings, and the ways participants use such interactions to create, sustain, or trouble hierarchies of power. Other scholastic interests of hers include rhetorical criticism, political rhetorics, accountability and confrontation, performance studies, and the rhetorics of horror film

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in visual and digital rhetorics, digital and social media, and feminist, Indigenous, and cultural rhetorics at the University of Illinois Chicago. My research focuses on intersections of culture, gender, and technology, and I investigate and write about the online and community practices of underrepresented peoples and voices.

I'm the Instruction and Outreach Archivist at Colorado State University.