Tuesday, November 12, 2024
6:00 p.m. ET

Lori Ostergaard (she/they) is professor of writing and rhetoric at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, and the editor of College English. Her research has appeared in a number of journals, including College English, Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, and Peitho. She was coeditor of the program profiles section of Composition Forum, editor and coeditor of WPA: Writing Program Administration, and co-editor of three collections: Transforming English Studies: New Voices in an Emerging Genre, Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles, and In the Archives of Composition: Writing and Rhetoric at High Schools and Normal School.

Felicita Arzu-Carmichael (she/her/ella) is associate professor of writing and rhetoric and associate director of the first-year writing program at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. She currently serves as an associate editor of College English. Arzu-Carmichael’s research and teaching center race, inclusion, and social justice, with intersections in professional and technical communication, online literacy, and cultural rhetorics. Her work has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, Writing Program Administration, Composition Studies, and other journals.

Jim Nugent (he/him) is professor of writing and rhetoric at Oakland University, where he teaches courses in editing, web authorship, and professional and technical writing. From 2017 to 2021, he served as an editor of WPA: Writing Program Administration. His research interests include text technologies, the pedagogy of code, and professional writing. He is coeditor of Transforming English Studies: New Voices in an Emerging Genre (2009), an edited collection that draws together scholars from the English studies subdisciplines of composition-rhetoric, literature, technical writing, English education, linguistics, and beyond to address the disciplinary crises—both real and imagined—that threaten the viability of contemporary English studies.

Megan Schoen (she/her) is associate professor and chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. She is a co-founder and former co-managing editor of Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society and she currently serves as an associate editor for College English. Schoen’s research focuses on composition studies, writing program administration, writing across the curriculum, and comparative rhetorics. Her articles have appeared in Rhetoric Review, WPA: Writing Program Administration, The WAC Journal, constellations, and several edited collections. She is a coeditor of Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing: Editors in Writing Studies (2022).