About the Authors

Doug Cloud
Doug is a PhD candidate in rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. He has an MA in rhetoric, also from Carnegie Mellon, and a BS in journalism from Ohio University. He is interested in argumentation, counterpublics, and the role of identity categories in public discourse.

Hilary Franklin (emeritus)
Hilary holds an MA and PhD in rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a BA in English from Haverford College. She is interested in Asian American rhetoric, media, and (counter)public theory. She can still be found on campus at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence.

Alexis Teagarden
Alexis is a PhD candidate in rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds an MA in Teaching from The Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Government and English from Georgetown University. Her research is on public sphere theory and the rhetoric of public policy, particularly arguments about charter schools and education reform.

Matt Zebrowski
Matt is a PhD candidate in rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds an MA in Linguistics from Temple University and a BA in English from Wilkes University. He researches epideictic rhetoric in consumer culture, and his dissertation examines the relationship between branding and consumer activism in the organic food industry.

The four founding editors are graduate students in and alumni of the Rhetoric Program at Carnegie Mellon University.

and our Illustrator

Kate Holterhoff
Kate is a PhD student in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds an MA in English Literature and a BFA, with a concentration in painting, from the University of Cincinnati.  Her current studies focus on science, anthropology and aesthetics in the Victorian period.

Contributors

Carolyn Commer, Carnegie Mellon University

Daniel Dickson-LaPrade, Carnegie Mellon University

Wenhao Diao, Carnegie Mellon University

Ashley Karlin, Carnegie Mellon University

Bill Marcellino, Carnegie Mellon University

Astrid Øksnevad, University of London

Will Penman, Carnegie Mellon University

Ethan Pullman, Carnegie Mellon University

Susan Ryan, Carnegie Mellon University

Kurt Sampsel, Carnegie Mellon University

David Seitz, University of Pittsburgh

Jeff Swift, North Carolina State University

Benedict Teagarden, University of London

Avery Jacob Wiscomb, Carnegie Mellon University