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Andrea Lunsford

Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000. Prior to this appointment, she was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000) and, before that, Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86) and Associate Professor of English at Hillsborough Community College. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977). She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.


Andrea’s scholarly interests include the contributions of women and people of color to rhetorical history, theory, and practice; collaboration and collaborative writing, comics/graphic narratives; translanguaging and style, and technologies of writing. She has written or coauthored/coedited many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, and The Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing as well as numerous chapters and articles. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martins Handbook, The Everyday Writer, and EasyWriter; the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings; and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice.


Andrea has given presentations and workshops on the changing nature and scope of writing and critical language awareness at scores of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of La Casa Roja’s Next Generation Leadership Network, as past Chair of the Kronos Quartet Performing Arts Association--and works diligently if not particularly well in her communal organic garden.

John Ruszkiewicz

John J. Ruszkiewicz is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught literature, rhetoric, and writing for forty years. A winner of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, he was instrumental in creating the Department of Rhetoric and Writing in 1993 and directed the unit from 2001-05. He has also served as president of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) of Texas, which gave him its Frances Hernández Teacher—Scholar Award in 2012. For Bedford/St. Martins, he is coauthor, with Andrea Lunsford, of Everything’s an Argument and the author of How to Write Anything. In retirement, he writes the mystery novels under the pen name J.J. Rusz; the most recent, The Mule Ears, published in 2023 on Amazon.

University of Maryland-College Park

Stuart Greene

Stuart Greene received his Ph.D. in English from Carnegie Mellon in Rhetoric. He is associate professor of English with a joint appointment in Africana Studies at Notre Dame.His research has examined the intersections of race, poverty, and achievement in public schools. This work has led to the publication of his co-edited volume, Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Racial Understanding (Teachers College Press, 2003), for which he won the National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award in 2005. He has published a monographic, Race, Community, and Urban Schools: Partnering with African American Families (Teachers College Press, 2013), edited Literacy as a Civil Right (Peter Lang, 2008) and co-edited with Cathy Compton-Lilly, Bedtime Stories and Book Reports: Connecting Parent Involvement and Family Literacy (Teachers College Press, 2011). His current research focuses on literacy, youth empowerment and civic engagement in the context of university/community partnerships. This work appears in his edited collection Youth Voices, Public Spaces, and Civic Engagement. (Routledge Press, 2016), Language Arts, Urban Education, and The Urban Review.

April Lidinsky

April Lidinsky (PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers) is Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Indiana University South Bend. She has published and delivered numerous conference papers on writing pedagogy, womens autobiography, and creative nonfiction, and has contributed to several textbooks on writing. She has served as acting director of the University Writing Program at Notre Dame and has won several awards for her teaching and research including the 2015 Indiana University South Bend Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2017 Indiana University South Bend Eldon F. Lundquist Award for excellence in teaching and scholarly achievement, and the All-Indiana University 2017 Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.

Amy Braziller

Amy Braziller is Professor Emeritus at Red Rocks Community College. She received her BA from Empire State College and her MA in Literature from New York University. She has presented on teaching writing and new media at numerous national and regional conferences. Her research focuses on the intersections between classroom and personal writing. Amy, who is at work on a series of personal essays related to her punk rock days in New York City, blogs about food, film, music, LGBTQ issues, and social media distractions at amybraziller.com.

Elizabeth Kleinfeld

Elizabeth Kleinfeld is the Writing Center Director and Professor of English at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She received her BS from Bradley University and her MS in English and PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from Illinois State University. She has published on disability, writing centers, and student source use in various journals and collections, including Computers & Composition Online and Praxis. Her research interests include disability studies, feminist pedagogies, and teaching for social justice. She blogs about grief and disability at elizabethkleinfeld.com.

Sylvan Barnet

Sylvan Barnet was a professor of English and former director of writing at Tufts University. His several texts on writing and his numerous anthologies for introductory composition and literature courses have remained leaders in their field through many editions. His titles, with Hugo Bedau, include Current Issues and Enduring Questions; Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing; and From Critical Thinking to Argument.

Hugo Bedau

Hugo Bedau was a professor of philosophy at Tufts University and served as chair of the philosophy department and chair of the university’s committee on College Writing. An internationally respected expert on the death penalty, and on moral, legal, and political philosophy, he wrote or edited a number of books on these topics. He co-authored, with Sylvan Barnet, of Current Issues and Enduring Questions; Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing; and From Critical Thinking to Argument.

John O'Hara

John Fitzgerald O’Hara is an associate professor of Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing at Stockton University, where he is the coordinator of the first-year critical thinking program, and former Director of the Master of Arts in American Studies Program. He regularly teaches writing, critical thinking, and courses in American literature and history and is a nationally-recognized expert on the 1960s. He is the co-author of Current Issues and Enduring Questions; Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing; and From Critical Thinking to Argument.

Lauren Ingraham

Lauren Ingraham is a Professor and Director of General Education at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Specializing in writing program administration and rhetoric and composition studies, Dr. Ingraham teaches both undergraduates and graduate students. Her current research focuses on ways to improve high school students’ readiness for college writing. She has been a consultant for the National Council of Teachers of English, and her most recent publication appears in The Framework of Success in Postsecondary Writing: Scholarship, Theories, and Practice (edited by Nicholas Behm, Sherry Rankings Robertson, and Duane Roen, 2017).

Jeanne Law Bohannon

Jeanne Law Bohannon is an Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. Her work with first-year writers focuses on creating digital and dialogic learning spaces, where students cultivate their writerly ethos through community engagement and public humanities. She is the Director of the #ATLStudentmovement Project and a Co-PI for the Learning Information Literacies Across the Curriculum (LILAC) initiative.

Cheryl E. Ball

Cheryl E. Ball

Cheryl E. Ball is a queer, cis, white woman residing in metro Detroit--the ancestral and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabe peoples, which she honors daily by caring for the land and all of its spirits. Dr. Ball (pronoun flexible) is director of the Digital Publishing Collaborative in the libraries at Wayne State University, where she collaborates with and mentors faculty, staff, and students on digital publishing projects including digital research websites, open educational resources, open-access publications, digital humanities project management, digital pedagogy, and other digitally based scholarly communications needs. Her favorite work time is spent training interns in publishing pedagogy. Dr. Ball also edits the longest running scholarly multimedia journal, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and is Editor-in-Chief for the Library Publishing Curriculum. Publications include a scholarly multimedia collection The New Work of Composing (co-edited with Debra Journet and Ryan Trauman, C&C Digital Press) and the print-based RAW: Reading and Writing New Media (co-edited with Jim Kalmbach, Hampton Press).Through these and other efforts, she strives to teach folks how to publish their multimodal work in inclusive, anti-racist, and accessible ways

Jennifer Sheppard

Jennifer Sheppard is a faculty member in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Department at San Diego State University, where she serves as the Associate Director of Lower Division Writing. She regularly teaches courses in visual communication, digital and popular culture rhetorics, and professional communication. Her research and publication projects have focused on the intersection of theory and practice in digital writing, new media composing, professional communication, and pedagogy for face-to-face and online instruction. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Literacy and Technology, Hybrid Pedagogy, Computers and Composition, and several edited collections, including Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication and RAW: Reading and Writing New Media. She lives in San Diego, CA, with her partner, Kathryn, and their son, Eli.

Kristin L. Arola

Kristin L. Arola is an Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. Her work brings together composition theory, digital rhetoric, and American Indian rhetorics so as to understand digital composing practices within larger social and cultural contexts. Her most recent book, Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment) [with Anne Frances Wysocki, Utah State UP, 2012] is an edited collection that explores how the media we produce and consume embody us in a two-way process. She is also the co-editor of the third edition of CrossTalk in Comp Theory: A Reader [with Victor Villanueva, NCTE, 2011]. Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition, Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, and the Journal of Literacy and Technology. She resides in Pullman, WA, with her amazing husband and charming dog.

Diana Hacker

Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over thirty-five years at Prince George's Community College in Maryland, where she was a member of the English faculty. Hacker handbooks, built on innovation and on a keen understanding of the challenges facing student writers, are the most widely adopted in America. Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, include A Writer's Reference, Eleventh Edition (2025); A Pocket Style Manual, Tenth Edition (2025); The Bedford Handbook, Twelfth Edition (2023); Rules for Writers, Tenth Edition (2022); and Writer’s Help 2.0, Hacker Version.

Nancy Sommers

Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard's Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard's WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles “Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers” and “Responding to Student Writing” are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Recently she has been exploring different audiences through publishing in popular media. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, and editor of Tiny Teaching Stories on Macmillan Learning's Bits Blog.

Richard E. Miller

Richard E. Miller is a Professor of English at Rutgers University where he has been teaching since 1993. Richard has written a number of scholarly books, the most recent being, On the End of Privacy (2019). He has tried his hand at blogging, poetry, graphic narrative, and photography, and is currently working on a book of creative nonfiction entitled, To Become a Writer. In 2022, Richard received the Chancellor-Provosts Award for Excellence in Teaching which honors a member of the New Brunswick faculty "whose teaching contributions resulted in an extraordinary impact on the institution, students’ experiences, and public engagement."

Ann Jurecic

Ann Jurecic is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University where she teaches the history of the essay, women writers, and the medical humanities. Ann taught in a public high school, a community college, and the Princeton Writing Program before she joined the Department of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2005. Ann’s first book, Illness as Narrative (2012), charts the emergence of personal writing about illness in the twentieth century. Her new book, Changing Minds: Women and the Political Essay, 1960–2000, is about the careers of five innovative writers, among them Rachel Carson and Joan Didion (2023).