Blogger in Chief

Cynthia Haynes
Cynthia Haynes is Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Composition at Clemson University. She spent a year as Visiting Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she furthered her research interests in rhetorical theories, composition theory and pedagogy, innovative communication, digital rhetorics, serious design, computer games studies, educational technologies, and political rhetorics. She has been known to publish some of this stuff.

Co-Bloggers

Adria Battaglia
Adria Battaglia is a PhD student in Rhetoric and Language in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Texas. Currently, she teaches courses in the fundamentals of public speaking and professional communication at both UT and ACC. Her research interests include the areas (and intersections) of public sphere theory, the rhetorics of social movements, feminist theory and legal rhetoric. In her dissertation prospectus, she intends to focus on her daily curiosity and nightly dissonance: free speech cases and the "crises of judgment."


Jim Brown
Jim Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in Computers and English at the University of Texas. He teaches courses in rhetoric, composition, and computer culture in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing and the English Department. His dissertation, Hospitable Texts, examines Wikipedia and other virtual-textual communities.

Emerita

Jim Aune
James Arnt Aune is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in the history of rhetoric, freedom of speech, and church-state conflict. His research focuses on the historical sociology of rhetoric, especially the interaction between rhetoric and the technical discourses of economics and law. He is the author or editor of four books: Rhetoric and Marxism (1994), Selling the Free Market (2001), Civil Rights Rhetoric and the American Presidency (2004), and The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric (2007).


Diane Davis
Diane Davis is Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Writing, English, and Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches courses in rhetorical theory, critical theory, and digital culture. Her current project involves rethinking the intersections of rhetoric and relationality, especially sites of inessential solidarity, such as ethics and identification. She is author of Breaking Up [at] Totality (Southern Illinois University Press 2000), co-author with Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford of Women's Ways of Making It ... In Rhetoric and Composition (in press, Routledge, 2007), and editor of The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (in press, U of Illinois P, 2007).


Rosa Eberly
Eikos the first self-named blogger emerita ever, Rosa A. Eberly is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of English in The College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State, where numbers matter. Since returning to Penn State in 2002, her course offerings have included histories and theories of rhetoric, public controversy, rhetoric and/of media, publics theories, literary public spheres, rhetorics of civic and community engagement, histories and theories of rhetoric and composition, and rhetorics and poetics. She is author of (and co-editor with Jeremy Cohen) A Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy; Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres; Elements of Reasoning, 2d edition (1st ed. author, E. P. J. Corbett). She used to be a free-range rhetorician. She has lately been described -- by someone who Knows -- as a ghost ...; but that was Quentin the boy.