Laurie E. Gries is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado–Boulder. She is author of Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics (Utah State UP, 2015, which won the 2016 Advancement of Knowledge and the 2016 Research Impact Award from CCCC). More recently, she has co-edited Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric (Utah State UP, 2018) and published in College English, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.
Blake Hallinan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem researching how technologies such as ratings, reviews, engagement metrics, and recommendation systems shape cultural notions of value and worth. Blake has published in journals including New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Communication Theory. Twitter ID: @blakeplease.
Aaron Beveridge is an assistant professor of Informatics and Analytics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Beveridge’s work has been published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Kairos, IEEE Transactions for Professional Communication, and Computers and Composition. He is co-founder and project director for MassMine, a data-driven research software funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and this funding also supports a book project titled, Interdisciplinary Data Mining: Using the MassMine Toolset.
Harry Archer graduated with a PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado Boulder. Harry is now an Associate Teaching Professor in the University Honors and Scholars Program at Colorado School of Mines.
Damián Baca is associate professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona on Tohono Oʼodham and Pascua Yaqui lands. His publications include Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing (2008), Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114BCE to 2012CE (2010), Rhetorics of Difference (2018), Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions (2019) and Literacies of/from the Pluriversal: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures (forthcoming).
Sarah Beck is a lecturer of Communication at Texas A & M. Her research and teaching engage with queer studies and rhetoric, with a focus on queer digital culture and everyday life. Sarah also engages with arts based and participatory methods in her research, with an emphasis on the use of digital photography.
Kira (Kyle) Bohunicky is a research coordinator and former assistant professor of digital arts and sciences at the University of Florida. They research the intersections of writing and performance on digital platforms with particular attention to how individuals compose their identities and convey their perspectives through various forms of play. Their work has been featured in Popular Culture Studies, Loading..., Press Start, Widerscreen, and Ecozon@.
Kristina Bowers is currently a PhD student in English at Pennsylvania State University concentrating in Rhetoric and Composition. Kristina’s research interests include new media and digital humanities studies, feminist and queer theories/critiques, embodied rhetorics and trans health rhetorics.
Phil Bratta is an independent scholar whose work focuses on rhetorical theory, culture, digital-visual rhetorics, and embodiment in everyday, socially-engaged practices. He has published or has forthcoming work in several edited collections and journals, including The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Rhetoric Review, College Composition and Communication, Computers and Composition, Enculturation, Feminist Teacher, Visual Culture and Gender, and The Journal of American Culture.
Shannon Butts is a Senior Learning Designer with Elsevier and teaches writing and technology at the University of Florida. Her research, teaching, and publications explore how emerging writing technologies (such as augmented reality, locative media, and 3D printing) create new platforms for community advocacy. Shannon also tinkers with mobile technologies to critically make location-based digital projects. You can read her work in journals such as Communication Design Quarterly and Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship as well as in collections such as Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy and Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media.
Emma Collins graduated with her M.A. in Communication from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests are focused on the intersection of rhetoric, organizations, and high-technology labor. She now is an independent scholar, living in Denver, and working in the software technology industry.
Jay Dolmage is committed to disability rights in his scholarship, service, and teaching. His work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. His first book, entitled Disability Rhetoric, was published with Syracuse University Press in 2014. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education was published with Michigan University Press in 2017 and is available in an open-access version online. Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability was published in 2018 with Ohio State University Press. He is the Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
Candice L. Edrington is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Edrington identifies herself as a scholar-activist. Her teaching and research focus on public relations, social movements, visual rhetoric, and social media. Before earning her Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media from NC State, Dr. Edrington gained professional experience in the communication and public relations field via capacities such as: Adjunct Instructor, Independent Public Relations Consultant, Coordinator of Communications, and Director of Engagement. Her research is published in the Journal of Public Interest Communications and Visual Communication Quarterly.
Dr. Victoria Gallagher is a Professor of Communication at North Carolina State University who specializes in the areas of visual and material rhetoric, public memory and race, digital humanities, and urban communication. She is the principal investigator of the award winning Virtual Martin Luther King project, a significant long term digital humanities project for the public, supported in part by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Academy of Learned Societies. In addition to her work on public projects such as vMLK and the North Carolina Freedom Park Project, Prof. Gallagher is the editor of a book series titled, Movement Rhetoric/Rhetoric's Movements for the University of South Carolina Press.
Romeo García is Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah. He researches and teaches about the relationship between literacies, rhetorics, and colonialities (as a logic of management and control and as a system of Ideas, images, and ends, both of which are shared in, imported, expanded, and disputed). García focuses his lens of investigation on how that relationship unfolds and disseminates at the local-regional level via settler ideological and epistemic work—how it helps construct settler states, constitute haunted/ing communities, and maintain wounded/ing places and spaces. He also attends to the ways in which local-regional colonialities contribute to the strengthening of the U.S. as one model of hegemony vying for power on the modern/colonial stage. García's research appears in College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Across the Disciplines, The Writing Center Journal, Community Literacy Journal, and constellations. He is co-editor (with Damián Baca) of Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise, winner of the 2020 Conference on College Composition & Communication Outstanding Book Award (Edited Collection). His current interests include the decolonial research paradigm's impact on composition and rhetorical studies; archival research; the cultural imaginary of border(ed)landers of South Texas; and community building in and outside of academia.
Jacob Greene is an assistant professor of English in the Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies program at Arizona State University. His research explores the rhetorical potential of place-based digital writing technologies, from mobile augmented reality applications to GPS-guided audio tours. His forthcoming book, Composing Place: Digital Rhetorics for a Mobile World (Utah State University Press), considers the continued impact of mobile media on our theories, practices, and pedagogies of digital writing. His other work has appeared or is forthcoming in Composition Studies, enculturation, Computers & Composition, Communication Design Quarterly, and Kairos.
Dr. Keon Pettiway is the principal investigator of the Global King Project, a public digital humanities project focused on the international history of American civil rights. Previously, Pettiway was a co-principal investigator of the Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project. His research focuses on rhetorical histories of race, commemoration, and design culture. Dr. Pettiway's work has been published in a number of venues, including the Journal of Communication, Journal of Black Sexuality, Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, Technoculture, and Communication Design Quarterly.
Jacqueline Rhodes is the Kelleher Centennial Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work on queer and feminist rhetorics has been published in journals such as College Composition & Communication, College English, Computers & Composition, enculturation, JAC, Pre/Text, and Rhetoric Review. Her co-authored and co-edited books have won a number of awards, including the 2014 CCCC Outstanding Book Award and the 2015 Computers & Composition Distinguished Book Award (for On Multimodality); the 2016 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship (for Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self); and the same award in 2017 for Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Identities, Publics. Her award-winning documentary feature Once a Fury (Morrigan House, 2020), which profiles the members of a 1970s lesbian separatist collective, is currently streaming on tellofilms.com.
Roopika Risam is Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education and English at Salem State University. Risam’s first monograph, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2018. She is the co-editor of Intersectionality in Digital Humanities (Arc Humanities Press, 2019) and South Asian Digital Humanities: Postcolonial Mediations Across Technology’s Cultural Canon (Routledge, 2020). Risam’s latest co-edited collection The Digital Black Atlantic in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (University of Minnesota Press) was published in 2021. She is currently vice president/president elect of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and Principal Investigator of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Risam also received the Massachusetts Library Association’s inaugural Civil Liberties Champion Award for her work promoting equity and justice in the digital cultural record.
Rohini Singh, a former assistant professor of Communication Studies at The College of Wooster, is now an independent scholar and a Senior Writer at ALSAC, the fundraising arm of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Her research examines how ideologies and structures of power manifest in rhetorical texts such as images, news texts, and speeches. She is particularly interested in the politics and images of South and Southeast Asia as well as the role of corporations and economic logic in public life. She has published in journals such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Western Journal of Communication, Visual Communication Quarterly, and Voices of Democracy.
Nicholas Van Horn is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Capital University. He is a data scientist and active researcher in the interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive neuroscience. His research and teaching span topics from memory, learning, and perception to cyberpsychology— the study of the psychological antecedents and consequences of networked and online social behaviors and relationships. In parallel with his teaching and research, Van Horn is the co-founder and head developer for MassMine, and he actively writes and maintains open source software related to writing and productivity, statistical analysis, text processing, and other data science solutions.
Luhui Whitebear (she/her) is Coastal Chumash and the Center Director of the Oregon State University (OSU) Kaku Ixt Mana Ina Haws. She completed her Ph.D. through Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at OSU. She also received her B.S. in Ethnic Studies, a second B.S. in Anthropology, and M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (WGSS, Ethnic Studies, and Queer Studies focus), all from OSU. She is a mother, poet, and Indigenous activist. Her research focuses on Indigenous rhetorics, Indigeneity & reclaiming Indigenous identity/gender roles, murdered & missing Indigenous women, Indigenous resistance movements, and national laws & policies that impact Indigenous people. Her volunteer work includes serving on the Corvallis School Board and the OBSA Member of Color Caucus leadership team as well as MMIW advocacy. Luhui is passionate about disrupting systems of oppression and creating positive change in society. You can read Luhui’s article “2020 & the Elections Can’t Stop Us: Hashtagging Change through Indigenous Activism” in volume 3 of Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal. Her forthcoming work includes a chapter in Decolonial Possibilities: Indigenously-Rooted Practices in Rhetoric and Writing, a chapter in Gender in the American West, a chapter in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives, and a co-authored chapter in Grassroots Activism: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts.