Kristin Bivens joined the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession in 2007. She is currently a tenure-track instructor at Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. Currently, her research interests include: contrapower harassment at two-year institutions and post-Katrina New Orleans (and Gulf Coast).
Heather Bruce received her Ph.D from the University of Utah (1997). She is the assistant chair for the National Council of Teachers of English College Level Steering Committee; and she is the Director of the Montana Writing Project. Her areas of interest in research are: English education, composition/rhetoric, and cultural and gender studies. Heather is the author of Literacies, Lives, and Silences: Girls Writing Lives in the Classroom she is the co-author of Conversation in Context: Identity, Knowing, and College Writing. She is currently at work on two book manuscripts: “As If Our Lives Depended on Rhetoric: Peace Pedagogy in the Post Civil Rights Era" and “Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: “This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives.”
Kirsti Cole is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literature at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Graduating with her PhD in 2008, Kirsti is currently working on a book length project titled "The Rhetoric of Effect in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe." She is also the co-author of "Feminist Social Projects: Building Bridges between Communities and Universities," which appeared in College English in 2007, as well as "(Post)Modern Psychoanalysis: A Re-vis(ion)ing of Poe," which is forthcoming in an edition from Cambridge University Press. Her research area focuses on the rhetoric of women's activism and as a part of her service as Co-Chair of the Feminist Workshop for the Cs in 2008, she is launching a comprehensive study of the Feminist Workshop from 1991 to 2011 in the summer of 2009. She has served as a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession for the Cs since 2006.
Violet A. Dutcher is professor of rhetoric and composition, chair in the Language & Literature department, and Writing Program Director at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from Kent State University. Her research interest is in community literacy. Violet is the author of: “Writing Without the ‘Protection of Angels’: Notes from the Middle Voice,” December, 2004 Feminism(s); “Autoethnography,” in Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography, 2005; “The Enduring Strength of Traditional and Recovered Stories” Winter 2006 Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History; “Grandma’s Sugar Cookies” Hunger and Thirst: Food Literature, 2008; and “Learning Politics in First Grade” After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose About School, 2007.”
Morgan Gresham earned a Ph.D at the University of Louisville. She currently is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. Her research interests include Writing Across the Curriculum, Feminist Pedagogy, and Composition Theory and Practice.
Jordynn Jack is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She earned both her MA and PhD. at Penn State University. Jordynn teaches and researches rhetoric of science, women’s rhetorics, and rhetorical theory. Her next major research project will examine public rhetorics of science, focusing on the legacy of conspiracy, secrecy, and skepticism on current debates about autism, cancer, and climate change. She has served as a member on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession since 2008. Jordynn’s book, Science on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Women Scientists During World War II, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press in 2009. She will present “Archiving the South: Researching Southern Women’s Rhetorics” at the Cs in 2009. http://english.unc.edu/faculty/jackj.html
Jody Millward earned her BA and MA at Penn State and her PhD. at the University of California-Santa Barbara. She currently teaches at Santa Barbara City College. Her research interests include promoting equity for the success of two-year college students. This interest has directed her to feminist scholarship, multicultural and class scholarship, technology-enhanced pedagogy, and two-year college research. Jody has been involved in the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession for five years. She also served as a co-chair for the Feminist Workshop in 1993. This year at the C’s, Jody is the chair of the Two Year College Association (TYCA) National Research Initiative Committee; she will also present “Solo, Join a Combo, or Orchestrate Your Program—Easing Into E-Portfolios.”
Gwen Pough is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University in the Writing Program and the Department of Women’s Studies. Gwen is the author of Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture and the Public Sphere (2004). Currently, Gwen is the newly elected Chair for the Cs. She earned her Ph.D from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Stephen Rufus is currently the chair of the English Department at Salt Lake Community College where he has been employed for twenty years. Stephen has served on the CCCC Executive Committee; and he is a former chair of the TYCA/West conference. He has also served on the editorial boards of CCC and TETYC. Currently, Stephen is a member of the editorial board for the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series and a member on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession.
Eileen Schell is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Chair and Director of the Writing Program at Syracuse University. Schell is the author of Gypsy Academics and Mother-teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor,and Writing Instruction (Heinemann, 1997), Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education (NCTE, 2001), and Rural Literacies with Kim Donehower and Charlotte Hogg (SIUP, 2007). Eileen is currently Chair of CCCC Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession; she formerly co-chaired the Committee on Contingent, Adjunct, Part-time Faculty Issues as well as serving as a member of the Executive Committee of CCCC.