Andrea Lunsford is Professor of English and Rhetoric at Stanford University and is on the faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English. Her scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration, style, and technologies of writing. Among her favorite courses to teach are “The Language Wars” and “The Rhetoric of Graphic Narratives.” She’s received both the Braddock and Shaughnessy Awards (with Lisa Ede), and in 1994 she received the CCCC Exemplar Award. One of her most recent books is The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, and she’s currently at work on The Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing.
Lisa Ede is Professor of English at Oregon State University, where she’s directed the Center for Writing and Learning and teaches courses in language and technology, composition, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Together with Andrea Lunsford, she’s been the recipient of both the Braddock and Shaughnessy Awards for their written work on audience and collaboration. Her recent books include Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location and (with Andrea) Writing Together: Essays on Collaboration in Theory and Practice.
Beverly J. Moss is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she teaches in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy program, and is on the faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English. Her research and teaching interests focus on community literacy, composition theory and pedagogy, and writing center theories and practices. Some of her favorite courses to teach are “Memory in African American Literary and Public Discourse” and “Issues and Methods in Tutoring Writing.” Her books include Literacy Across Communities and A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African American Churches.
Carole Clark Papper is Associate Professor in the Department of Writing Studies and Composition at Hofstra University, where she also directs the University Writing Center. Prior to that, she served for many years as the Director of the Ball State University Writing Program (winner of the CCCC Certificate of Excellence). Her scholarly interests include visual literacy, composition theory and pedagogy, and writing center theories and practices. Her favorite courses to teach include the practicum in writing center pedagogy, “From Pictograph to Pixel: The Impact of Writing Technologies on Literacies,” and “Navigating the Information Ocean: Research, Writing, and the Web.”
Keith Walters is Professor and Chair of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University, where he teaches sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and research design and methods. Among his favorite courses are “Language and Nationalism in the Middle East” and a writing workshop for TESOL students. Much of his research has focused on issues of language and identity in Tunisia, where he served as a Peace Corps volunteer, and the Arab world more broadly. He’s the author of two other textbooks, Everything’s an Argument with Readings and What’s Language Got to Do with It?
Michal Brody is a linguist, independent scholar, and lecturer. She was a founding faculty member of Universidad de Oriente in Yucatan, Mexico, and has been teaching more recently in California, at Sonoma State University and San Francisco State University. Her scholarly work centers on diverse aspects of language pedagogy for English in the United States and Yucatec Maya in Mexico, language politics, and contact between English and Spanish in the United States and Spanish and Maya in Mexico. Her favorite courses to teach include “Theories of Writing Systems” and “Linguistics of Cartoons and Comics.” She’s the author (with Keith Walters) of What’s Language Got to Do with It? and the editor of They Say / I Blog.