Namrata Ashvin Bhadania is a full time PhD student at Old Dominion University. Her research interests include rhetoric of health and medicine, digital humanities, gender and media studies, feminist methodologies, rhetoric of identiry, cultural studies and comparative studies. She is examining the epistemological and ontological rhetorical issues of women and gender, especially marginalized women going through psychological and physical risks of cultural practices.
I am a native of North Carolina and hold an M.A. in English from Appalachian State University and an M.Ed. in Adult Training and Development from NC State University. I have previously completed 111 hours in coursework and dissertation hours in the PhD program in Literature with the University of Arizona. My research focuses on situating American Indian literature as a literature of diaspora and a telling counterpoint to the trajectory of ideals of American Exceptionalism. I focus mainly on the works of Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, and other contemporary fiction authors, but I also dabble with early American Indian texts and the early American literary canon, American nature writing, and American Indian ecological writing. As a writing teacher, I am interested in stretch/WAC writing and digitally-enhanced approaches to student writing.
I am an adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where I teach writing studies, science fiction, and critical theory. My research interests currently focus on what amounts to the conjunction between post-9/11 American narratives, affect theory, cultural studies, critical theory, rhetoric, multiliteracy studies, genre studies, science fiction studies, horror studies, fantasy studies, popular literature, and the role of emotion in the narrative.
Bruce A. Craft is an Instructor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University and a backyard chicken farmer. He holds degrees from Tulane, Northwestern State, and LSU. At ODU, his doctoral concentrations are Literary & Cultural Studies and Technology/New Media. His research interests are Southern literature and culture, Grit Lit, digital ethnography, and the intersection between literature and philosophy. Bruce is currently researching how contemporary digital spaces of the New South (re)appropriate past cultural artifacts. Bruce also studies the Louisiana Redbones and the Melungeons of Appalachia. Bruce and his wife enjoy kayaking, fishing, and spending time in the south Louisiana marsh.
Cristina works for Norfolk State University and Western Oklahoma State College as an instructor. Her research interests include rhetoric and literature from the medieval and early modern periods, particularly religious and feminist texts. She is also interested in composition pedagogy and seeks to find ways to create culturally-inclusive classroom spaces.
Miranda L. Egger is a Senior Instructor and Assistant Director of Composition at the University of Colorado Denver. She teaches first-year composition courses, multimedia and digital composition, logic & argumentation, and the teaching assistant practicum. In her *spare* time, she’s finishing coursework for a Ph.D. in Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse Studies (with an emphasis in Technology and Media Studies) at Old Dominion University. Her professional and academic interests include: Literacy Studies (particularly theories of reading and writing connections); situating reading in theories of rhetorical circulation; networked, digital technologies of communication; WPA scholarship; and pedagogies that address online education, especially for at-risk undergraduate students.
Dana is a PhD candidate at Old Dominion University, and an adjunct at colleges in the Hudson Valley of New York. Her research focuses on the human/non-human assemblages embedded in the developing print culture in Victorian England. She is working on digital projects to enhance her research in these areas, with the goal of making those projects accessible to the public. She also invested in feminist rhetoric, media depictions of masculinity, and popular culture.
A Lorean (Lori) Hartness is a PhD Candidate divided between two worlds: her home in Oklahoma and her home in Tidewater, VA. She is researching the intersection between poetry and the Caribbean diaspora, investigating contemporary Caribbean poets who live in North America but write back to their complex origins through their explorations of language and history.
Jennifer is the Learning Resources Coordinator for the Savannah College of Art and Design's Atlanta campus, where she supervises the Writers' Studio and Tutoring Center. She is also a part-time doctoral student at ODU, where her primary research interests focus on workplace writing genres and processes. However, she also publishes and presents on a wide range of composition-related and popular culture topics, including roleplaying games, gothic horror, and science fiction.
Ruth is a PhD candidate who teaches composition and British literature at Lord Fairfax Community College. Her research interests include sociocultural influences on writing practices, author-reader relationships, print culture, the eighteenth-century British novel, and feminist and queer methodologies.
My research interests include: cultural rhetorics; Chicana feminism; critical refugee studies; transnational rhetorical feminism; and rhetorical ecologies.
Julie teaches British Literature and writing courses at James Madison University. Her research explores the evolving narrative of female identity in 19th and 20th-century women's periodicals and advice literature, digital humanities, critical making, and UX design in the archive.
Rachel Van Hofwegen Willis is an instructor of English in the Westover Honors College at the University of Lynchburg, teaching courses in composition, literature, and fun special topics like the cultural legacies of Sherlock Holmes or the ecologies of dystopian fiction. She is interested in the intersection of literature, rhetoric, and the culture industry, and her research interests include the digital humanities, violent masculinities, rhetoric and culture, and pedagogy.
Carol Wittig is an academic research librarian and Head of Research & Instruction at Boatwright Library, The University of Richmond. Her research interests include first-year students and their literacy practices, the relationship between writing, research, and library instruction, and the history of information literacy. Carol’s dissertation focus is on the historical intersections of academic literacies within writing studies and library literacies, drawing from a three-tiered model of distant reading using text and data mining of library journal scholarship, citation analysis, and close reading.