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Neal Salisbury

Neal Salisbury

Neal Salisbury (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is a professor of history at Smith College and specializes in the history of American Indians and colonial New England. He is author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (1982) and The Indians of New England: A Critical Bibliography (1982) and is coauthor of The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (1990). His most recent article, "The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans," appeared in the July 1996 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly.

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Lawrence Scanlon

Lawrence Scanlon

Lawrence Scanlon is retired from Brewster High School, where he taught AP English Language and Literature, and is currently teaching freshman composition at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. He has been a reader and table leader for the Language exam for the last ten years, as well as serving on the test development committee. As a College Board consultant, he has conducted numerous AP workshops and has trained the instructors for the College Board NY State United Teachers Union collaborative course. Larry is also coauthor of The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric.

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Peter Schakel

Peter Schakel

Peter Schakel, Peter C. and Emajean Cook Professor of English at Hope College, has published numerous scholarly and pedagogical studies on Jonathan Swift and C. S. Lewis; with Jack Ridl, he has coedited Approaching Poetry (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997) and Approaching Literature (Second Edition, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008).

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John Schilb

John Schilb

John Schilb (PhD, State University of New York—Binghamton) is a professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he holds the Culbertson Chair in Writing. He has coedited Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age, and with John Clifford, Writing Theory and Critical Theory. He is author of Between the Lines: Relating Composition Theory and Literary Theory and Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audiences’ Expectations.

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Robert Scholes

Robert Scholes

Robert Scholes, professor of modern culture and media at Brown University, is a distinguished teacher and a scholar in literary studies. He has published many influential books and articles, including The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline (1998), Protocols of Reading (1989), and Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English (1985), which won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize of the Modern Language Association in 1986 and the David H. Russell Research Award from NCTE in 1988. Scholes is a contributor of numerous articles and book reviews to learned journals, literary magazines, and weekly reviews.

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Stuart B. Schwartz

Stuart B. Schwartz

Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University. His scholarly work concentrates on the early history of Latin America and the history of Brazil. He is the author of Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (1992) and Sugar Plantations and the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia 1550-1835 (1985), which won the American Historical Association's Bolton Prize for the Best Work in Latin American History. Schwartz is also editor of Implicit Understandings: The Encounter Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (1994) and a coeditor of The Cambridge History of Native American Peoples (1999). A former fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Council of Learned Societies, he is currently completing a work entitled The Rebellion of Portugal and the Crisis of the Iberian Empires, 1621-1668.

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Daniel R. Schwarz

Daniel R. Schwarz

Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968.  He is the author of the recent In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century (2008) in the prestigious Blackwell Manifesto series, Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (2004), Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture (2003), as well as the widely read Imagining the Holocaust (1999).  His prior books include Rereading Conrad (2001); Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature  (1997); Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens (1993), a Choice selection for best academic book of 1993; The Case for a Humanistic Poetics (1991); The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930 (1989; revised 1995); Reading Joyce's "Ulysses" (Second Edition, 2004); The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller (1986); Conrad: The Later Fiction (1982); Conrad: "Almayer's Folly"  through "Under Western Eyes" (1980); and Disraeli's Fiction (1979).  He has edited Joyce's The Dead (1994) and Conrad's The Secret Sharer (1997) in the Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series, and was coeditor of Narrative and Culture (1994). He has also edited the Penguin Damon Runyon (2008). He served as consulting editor of the six-volume edition of The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli (2004) for which he wrote the General Introduction. He is General Editor of the multivolume critical series Reading the Novel for which he wrote Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (2004) and is now writing Reading the European Novel. A founding member and former president of the society for the Study of Narrative Literature, he has published dozens of scholarly articles on British and American fiction and literary theory.  Among his books are studies on Disraeli and Conrad as well as Reading Joyce's ULYSSES; The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930; and The Case for a Humanistic Poetics.

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Heather Sellers

Heather Sellers

Heather Sellers (PhD, Florida State University) is professor of English at Hope College in Michigan, where she teaches fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction and a Barnes & Noble New Discovery Writers Award, she has published widely in a variety of genres. Her books include Georgia Under Water, a collection of linked stories; Drinking Girls and Their Dresses: Poems; Page After Page, a memoir of the writing life; and Spike and Cubby’s Ice Cream Island Adventure, a children’s book.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist and poet. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

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Renee H. Shea

Renee H. Shea

Renée H. Shea is professor of English and Modern Languages at Bowie State University, and coauthor of The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric and Amy Tan in the Classroom. She has served as a reader, table leader, and question leader for both AP Literature and Language readings. She most recently served as the College Board advisor for AP Language, a liaison position with the development committee for AP Language.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (August 30th, 1797-February 1st, 1851) is considered one of the greatest writers of her time.

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Jennifer Sheppard

Jennifer Sheppard

Jennifer Sheppard is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at New Mexico State University, where she directs the Design Center, a space supporting students’ hands-on development of communication projects for clients. She regularly teaches courses in document design, multimedia theory and production, technical and professional communication, and online pedagogy. Her research interests include new media, information design, professional communication and pedagogy for face-to-face and online instruction. She has published on these issues in Computers and Composition, the Journal of Literacy and Technology, and several edited collections, including Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication and RAW: Reading and Writing New Media. She lives in Las Cruces, NM with her partner and their very busy toddler, Eli.

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Mary P. Sheridan

Mary P. Sheridan

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.

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Steve Sherwood

Steve Sherwood

Steve Sherwood is the Director of the William L. Adams Center for Writing at Texas Christian University. Currently an at-large representative to the International Writing Centers Association Executive Board, he is a past president of the South Central Writing Centers Association.  His essays have appeared in The Writing Center Journal, Journal of Teaching Writing, Dialogue, Writing Lab Newsletter, Writing Center Perspectives, Wiring the Writing Center, The Writing Center Resource Manual, English in Texas, Weber Studies, Rendezvous, and other journals.  With Christina Murphy and Joe Law, he compiled Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1996), for which Murphy, Law, and Sherwood received a 1997 National Writing Centers Association award. In 2003, Sherwood’s novel Hardwater won the George Garrett Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Texas Review Press, which published the novel in 2005.

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Michelle Sidler

Michelle Sidler

Michelle Sidler is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Composition at Auburn University, where she teaches various undergraduate courses in writing and rhetoric as well as graduate courses in composition, rhetoric, and professional communication. Sidler has published articles in journals such as Computers and Composition, Rhetoric Review, The WAC Journal, Kairos, and JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory.

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