Dr. Cinthia Gannett is associate professor emerita of English and former director of core writing at Fairfield University. Prior to joining the Fairfield faculty, she directed writing programs and writing centers at Loyola University of Maryland and at the University of New Hampshire for several decades. She has published on women's journal diary traditions (Gender and the Journal, SUNY 1992), program administration, international writing studies, and archival studies. Founding president of the International Society for the Study of Jesuit Rhetoric, she also co-edited Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies, and is co-editing two international collections to be published in 2025.