Mary P. Sheridan is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Composition Program at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches courses on literacy, gender, digital media, and pedagogy. She recently published Design Literacies: Learning and Innovation in the Digital Age (with Jennifer Rowsell) as well as Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies: Activism in the GirlZone. In addition, Sheridan and Lee Nickoson are coediting a new methods collection tentatively titled New Directions in Writing Studies Research.