Sally F. Benson is an independent scholar whose interests include prison education and prison history in New Mexico, historiography, collective memory, and community archives. She teaches at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

Distinguished Professor of English Emerita. Retired from Holy Cross in 2019 after 42 years. Publications include: Rhetorics of Fear and Rage: An American Tradition (forthcoming); Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics, with Zimmerelli, 2021; The Rhetorical Tradition, with Herzberg and Reames, 3rd edition 2020. Honors include: NCTE Outstanding Book Award, 1992; Exemplar Award, CCCC; 2008; Sara Feinberg Prize, Hebrew College, 2013; Fellow, Rhetoric Society of America, 2018.

I am an educator and registered nurse exploring the intersection of feminist rhetoric, healthcare education, and simulation. My work aims to is amplify standardized patient educators as stewards of safety and focuses on how language functions within training environments to shape professional norms, collaboration, and experiences of safety in sexual and reproductive healthcare. Through scholarship, I advocate for language awareness as a core component of ethical and inclusive medical and health professions education.

My research explores the spatial rhetorics of Black education in the American South, particularly how African American communities in Birmingham, Alabama, have used educational spaces as sites of resistance, innovation, and rhetorical self-definition. I engage archival research, Black feminist rhetorical theory, and critical geography to examine how race, place, and pedagogy intersect historically and presently.

Late-comer to higher ed, Air Force veteran, two-year college advocate.

Charlot is an undergraduate student studying creative writing and peace studies at Chapman University. She has a passion of education and citizenship. In her free time, she conducts research on how to better improve the American education system and education's contribution to national and global citizenship.

Melody Bowdon, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. In the more than 25 years since she joined the UCF English Department as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Bowdon has served in several university leadership roles, including Interim Vice Provost of the Division of Teaching and Learning, Interim Dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Vice Provost of Student Learning and Academic Success, Associate Dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies, Executive Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, director of SACSCOC decennial reaffirmation of accreditation, and director of various graduate programs. She has served on a wide range of committees, mentored numerous colleagues, and has provided leadership on state and national levels, particularly in the arenas of student civic engagement and faculty professional development. She has published numerous books and articles about innovative pedagogies and institutional leadership. Her most recent interdisciplinary research areas include virtual reality pedagogy in the college classroom and inclusive models for learning space design, while her disciplinary scholarship focuses on professional communication in the government and nonprofit sectors.

Danielle Littlefield Brady is an Instructor of English at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas and a Doctoral Candidate in Rhetoric at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. Her research interests include feminist rhetorics, visual rhetorics, and protest rhetorics in popular culture. She has contributed to forthcoming academic edited collections about popular culture artifacts, including New Girl, Wonder Woman, and Taylor Swift.

I am an Instructor of English at the University of South Dakota where I teach composition and literature courses. I am also a doctoral student in Adult and Higher Education.

Mariana Castro Azpíroz is a nonfiction writer born and raised in Mexico. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing and Environment with a minor in Journalism and Mass Communication, and a 2023-2024 Pearl Hogrefe Fellow in Iowa State University. Her research interests revolve around analyzing how language shapes our understanding of the world and our relationships with the environment. Through her writing, she seeks to create new narratives around the climate crisis through diverse ways of knowing, alternative worldviews, and ethics of care. Mariana advocates for socio-environmental justice and has co-authored book chapters on diverse and inclusive science communication models as well as women’s role in sustainability efforts. She has published several articles in Nexos magazine, wrote a monthly column on climate change (2020-2023), and worked as editor of Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment for a year. She is currently participating in NOAA’s Central Midwest Climate Opportunities & Learning Project as a research assistant and is a member of the second cohort of Climate Storytelling 2075.

Kelsey I. M. Chapates (she/her) is a Rhetoric and Composition doctoral candidate at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include rhetorical theory, rhetoric of science, and feminist rhetorics. In addition to her research, she teaches courses on critical reading, rhetoric and composition, and business writing. Previously, she served as an Assistant Director for the First-Year English program. She holds an M.A. in Mass Communication from Stephen F. Austin State University, B.A.s in Philosophy and English Literature as well as a minor in Religious Studies from Texas A&M University.

Jo Christian is a PhD Student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in the Literature, Writing and Digital Humanities Program. They are a poet and are also pursuing their graduate certificate in the women, gender, and sexuality studies program.

Sara Cooper is an Associate Professor of English at Murray State University in western Kentucky, where she teaches graduate courses in the Doctor of Arts in English Pedagogy program. Her research interests include multimodal composition, embodiment, commonplace writing, and feminist rhetorics. She is the author of “Radcliffe’s Strongest Woman: The Bricolaged Body in One Progressive Era Women’s College Scrapbook (Rhetoric Review, 2002) which received a Theresa J. Enos Anniversary Award (honorable mention). In 2020 she was named College Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English (KCTE). She is also mom to a vibrant nine-year-old, Ayla.