Gesa E. Kirsch is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, CA. Kirsch’s teaching and research focus on feminist rhetorical studies, archival research methodology, women in the history of medicine and science, and environmental rhetoric. She has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous books, including Unsettling Archival Research (co-edited with Romeo García, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker Smith); Feminist Rhetorical Practices (co-authored with Jacqueline Jones Royster), winner of the Winifred Bruce Horner Outstanding Book Award; and Beyond the Archives (co-edited with Liz Rohan). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Award and has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Louisville, at the University of Illinois, and at Syracuse University.