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.

Sara Webb-Sunderhaus is associate professor of English at Miami University. With Kim Donehower, she is the co-editor of Re-Reading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance (University Press of Kentucky, 2015). Her research has appeared in such venues as College English, Community Literacy Journal, Composition Forum, Journal of Basic Writing, and WPA: Writing Program Administration, as well as several edited collections.

I am an adoptee currently focusing research in critical adoption studies, with particular interest in reunion narratives and in adoption and loss of birth culture. I am also interested in motherhood, trauma, and epigenetics.