Joyce Rain Anderson is Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State College She received her Ph.D in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of New Hampshire in 2005. Her research and teaching interests include: first-year composition, personal and public writing, English Language Learners, Cultural Rhetorics, Indigenous and Survivance Rhetorics, American Indian Boarding Schools, (Re)presentations of Indigenous Peoples, and Vernacular Literacies.
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
Rhea Estelle Lathan is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University. She holds a Ph.D in English and MA in Afro American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; a BA in Africology and English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lathan's research includes the literate and rhetorical history of women of African descent, the development of literacy, and the delivery systems for the teaching of writing; community based critical intellectualism of African American Women, identity politics and social historical activism as well as critical race theory in rhetoric and composition. Lathan teaches courses ranging from social historical perspectives on rhetoric and composition to more specialized African American Literacies, rhetoric, composition research methodologies and theories, literate practices within African American social movements, including Afrafeminist and literacy history.
Jolivette Mecenas is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Writing Program at the University of La Verne in La Verne (Los Angeles Co.), CA. She earned her PhD in 2009 from the University of Hawai‘i. In her contribution to the anthology, Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric (which won an Honorable Mention for the 2009 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize), Jolivette wrote about the cultural rhetorics of Asian American pop culture and media. Her teaching and research interests include citizenship genres, civic-political discourse, feminist and queer publics, writing pedagogy, and writing program administration.
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.”
Dora Ramirez-Dhoore is an Assistant professor of Ethnic American Literature at Boise State University. She earned her Ph.D from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is a former Scholars for the Dream award recipient. Dora’s research engages issues of production and consumption of texts tied to global and transnational perspectives of audience. Her work examines ideas of nation-building and the internalization of socio-political global affects. Recent publications include: “Let the Gummy Bears Speak: Articulating Identity in Sandra Cisneros’s ‘Never Marry a Mexican’” in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek (ed. Cecilia S. Donohue); “Dissecting Environmental Racism: Redirecting the Toxic in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood and Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus” in Ecocritical Approaches to Latin American and Latino Literatures and Cultures (ed. Adrian Kane); “The Cyberborderland: Surfing the Web for Xicanidad” published in Chicana/Latina Studies (5.1 Winter 2005); “Discovering a ‘Proper Pedagogy’: and The Geography of Writing at UTPA” in Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, edited by Cristina Kirklighter, Susan Loudermilk, Diana Cardenas, and Susan Wolff Murphy.
Luisa Rodríguez Connal, Ph. D. is currently operating as an independent scholar and active member of the National Council of Teachers of English. Professional Activities: Member of CCCC Diversity Committee, Executive Committee, Latino/a Caucus, Progressive Special Interest Groups and Caucuses Committee, Service Learning Committee. Conference presentations at CCCC, MLA, Shifting Discourses in the Twenty-First Century. Texas A&M University. CSU Conference: Designing Change for Women and Minority, Emerging Careers for Women Conference, Pima Community College. Publications: Chapters in Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies, Advanced Composition: Principles and Practices, 2001, Teaching Tools Theorized: From Practice to Theory and Back Again, and Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement, Vol. 1. Articles in Who's Who in Contemporary Women Writers, 1999, in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition, 1996, and in Making Connections. 4, 1 (Fall 1999). Bibliographic work for CCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1992 and 1996. I wrote a Master of Arts thesis on nonsexist language in 1988-89. Currently, my work includes an autobiographical piece and a study of little known Latina writers who are bicultural and some of their foremothers. Position Statement: Women’s work in academia, specifically in the area of English which encompasses many new divisions such as English Studies, multicultural rhetorics and the like. It is important to explore our contributions to our profession and I look forward to working with others on the Status of Women in the Profession Committee.
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.
Hyoejin Yoon is Associate Professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests include history of composition, critical pedagogy, emotion studies, Asian American feminist studies. Her publications include "Affecting the Transformative Intellectual: Questioning 'Noble' Sentiments in Critical Pedagogy and Composition" in JAC, winner of the 2005 Elizabeth A. Flynn award for best feminist essay in rhetoric and composition, and a chapter "Learning Asian American Affect" in Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric, edited by LuMing Mao and Morris Young. Yoon has recently been involved in higher education administration and institutional assessment.
Sandra Young is an Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina and a former CCCC Scholars for the Dream Recipient. Her research interests include recovering the teaching of writing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and composition theory and practice.