Gesa E. Kirsch is professor of English at Bentley University and cofounder of the Women’s Leadership Institute. Her research and teaching interests include feminism and composition, ethics, qualitative research methodology, archival research, and women’s rhetorical education. She has written and edited a number of books, among them Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process; Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook; Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research: The Politics of Locations, Interpretation, and Publication; Women Writing the Academy: Audience, Authority, and Transformation; Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy; Methods and Methodology in Composition Research; and A Sense of Audience in Written Communication. Currently she is working on a book with Dr. Jacqueline Jones Royster thatexamines new directions in feminist rhetorical inquiry. Formerly Associate Executive Director for Higher Education with the National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL, and faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Director of Women's Studies at University of Oregon, Eugene, and Wayne State University, Detroit.