Associal Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Brock University in Ontario.

I am a non-traditional, interdisciplinary doctoral student and graduate instructor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

Anna D'Orazio is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric & Composition at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests center on writing through the lifespan, literacy studies, writing transfer, technical/professional writing, and student-centered pedagogies. She has published work in these areas in Xchanges and Literacy in Composition Studies. Anna serves as the President for the English Graduate Student Association at the University of Cincinnati and she is the Graduate Student Representative for the Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition.

Jen is a PhD candidate working on her dissertation, which will focus on Mary Moody Emerson, a nineteenth century American intellectual. Jen's work focuses on women's rhetorics, resistance, pedagogies, and intellectual identities.

Dr. Jennifer Smith Daniel is the Director of the Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from UNC Greensboro. She enjoys working with students at the college level – particularly first-year students – because it is a time of discovery and trial. Her scholarship has been published in the Community Literacy Journal, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, Composition Studies, and Tiny Teaching Stories: Restoring Your Tongue (MacMillan Learning Bits Blog). She is passionate about helping students discover their potential beyond how they were previously defined. To her, every student can be successful.

Dr. De León-Menjivar’s research centers on the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM); specifically she looks at how rhetorical theory and approaches can help understand the perceptions and treatment of people with chronic illness and improve care for underrepresented and marginalized populations. Her work has appeared in the following journals: Journal of Communication in Healthcare, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Hispanic Healthcare International, and Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space.

I am a PhD candidate in Composition & Rhetoric at the University of New Hampshire. Currently, I am writing my dissertation. My research is about multilingual students' meaningful writing experiences in first-year writing in community college. My background includes teaching writing in the first-year writing course in the university and in community college. I have taught secondary school ELA and have worked in communications and public relations in the computer software field.

Jane Donawerth is an emerita professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of the University of Maryland. She taught for 40 years, has published on Shakespeare, early modern women especially their rhetoric, science fiction by women and the history of women's rhetorical theory. She has edited Rhetorical Theory by Women before 1900, An Anthology, and authored Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition. She was a founding co-editor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and coedited volumes by Madeleine de Scudery and Margaret Fell.

Serenity Dougherty has a BA in English from UNL, an MA in English from Northern Michigan University, and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is currently an English PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Rhetoric and Composition, and her research focuses on stand-up comedy. She has been writing and performing stand-up herself for over a decade and currently runs the longest running comedy open mic in the country. She also coaches Slam Poetry through the Nebraska Writers Collective and serves as co-director for the Writing Lincoln Initiative.

Renee Ann Drouin is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Penn State Harrisburg. Within the classroom, she loudly discusses video games injustices and the importance of audience awareness in both traditional print and digital media spaces.

Regina Duthely is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. She specializes in Black feminist rhetorics, African American rhetorics, and multimodal composition and rhetoric. Her research examines the ways that marginalized people, particularly Black women, engage in subversive rhetorics of protest and resistance.