Understanding Rhetoric

Elizabeth Losh is the Gale and Steve Kohlhagen Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at William and Mary. Previously she directed the Culture, Art, and Technology program at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press), The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (MIT Press), and Hashtag (Bloomsbury).

Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication and is currently associate dean in the Division of Undergraduate Education. The author, coauthor, or coeditor of sixteen books, he writes frequently about how people learn to write with a variety of digital tools. He’s also a proud nerd who enjoys reading and writing about science fiction, comics, movies, and young adult fiction.

Kevin Cannonis an award-winning cartoonist, children’s book illustrator, and cartographer. His most recent graphic novel, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, was published by Hill and Wang. A Minneapolis native, Cannon spends his free time camping, reading dusty books about arctic explorers, and drawing cartoon maps.