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William Wells Wells Brown

William Wells Wells Brown

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Victoria Bissell Brown

Victoria Bissell Brown

Victoria Bissell Brown (PhD, UCSD) is the L. F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College.  In addition to editing Jane Addams's autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull-House for Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The Education of Jane Addams (U. Penn Press, 2004) and articles on Addams, on Woodrow Wilson and gender, and on female adolescents in the Progressive Era.  She is currently working on a social history of the American grandmother in the twentieth century.

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Brenda Jo Brueggemann

Brenda Jo Brueggemann

Brenda Jo Brueggmann is professor of English and Vice-Chair, a faculty advisor for the American Sign Language program, and coordinator for the interdisciplinary disability studies program at Ohio State University. She is the author of Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places (New York UP, 2009) and Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (Gallaudet UP, 1999), and essays and articles on pedagogy, qualitative research, literacy, rhetoric, deaf and disability studies. She is the editor of and a contributor to Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives (Gallaudet UP, 2004) and coeditor and contributor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (Modern Language Association, 2002) and Women and Deafness: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Gallaudet UP, 2006). She serves as editor for the Gallaudet University Press “Deaf Lives” series (autobiography and biography) and coeditor for the journal, Disability Studies Quarterly.

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W. Fitzhugh Brundage

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

W. Fitzhugh Brundage has taught history at the University of Florida and is now William B. Umstead Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist on the South and modern U.S. history, he is the editor of Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity (2000) and Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South (1997); author of A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies of Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901 (1996) and Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930 (1993), which won the OAH's Merle Curti Award in 1994. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Charles T. Brusaw

Charles T. Brusaw

Charles T. Brusaw was a faculty member at NCR Corporation's Management College, where he developed and taught courses in professional writing, editing, and presentation skills for the corporation worldwide. Previously, he worked in advertising, technical writing, public relations, and curriculum development. He has been a communications consultant, an invited speaker at academic conferences, and a teacher of business writing at Sinclair Community College.

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Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha Buckhanon’s first novel, Upstate, won an American Library Association Alex Award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Debut Fiction. Terry McMillan selected her to receive the first Terry McMillan Young Author Award in 2006. A recipient of a 2001 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship and an Andrew Mellon Fellow, Buckhanon frequently teaches writing and speaks throughout the country. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from New School University in New York City, and both a B.A. and a M.A. in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. She was born in 1977 in Kankakee, Illinois.

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Richard Bullock

Richard Bullock

Richard Bullock directs the writing programs at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where he developed the writing across the curriculum program and teaches first-year writing and composition pedagogy courses. He is the coeditor of two books, Seeing for Ourselves: Case Study Research by Teachers of Writing (with Glenda Bissex) and The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary (with John Trimbur and Charles I. Schuster), which won the 1983 CCCC Book Award. He edited Why Workshop? Changing Course in 7-12 English, and is the author of The Norton Field Guide to Writing and The St. Martin's Manual for Writing in the Disciplines: A Guide for Faculty.

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Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors, Dry, Magical Thinking: True Stories, Possible Side Effects, A Wolf at the Table and You Better Not Cry. He is also the author of the novel Sellevision, which is currently in development for film. The film version of Running with Scissors, directed by Ryan Murphy and produced by Brad Pitt, was released in October 2006 and starred Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Annette Bening (nominated for a Golden Globe for her role), Alec Baldwin and Evan Rachel Wood. Augusten's writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers around the world including The New York Times and New York Magazine. In 2005 Entertainment Weekly named him one of “The 25 Funniest People in America.” He resides in New York City and Western Massachusetts.

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Paul Butler

Paul Butler

Paul Butler is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches undergraduate writing classes and graduate courses in a new PhD concentration, rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy.  Butler's book, Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric, was published by Utah State University Press in 2008.  His work also appeared in several journals, including JAC, Rhetoric Review, QPA, and Reflections, and in an edited collection, Authorship in Composition Studies.

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William E. Cain

William E. Cain

William E. Cain is Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. His publications include a monograph on American literary and cultural criticism, 1900-1945, in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume Five. He is a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (Second Edition,2010), and, with Sylvan Barnet, he has coauthored a number of books on literature and composition. Recently he has written essays on George Orwell, Edith Wharton, Ralph Ellison, Shakespeare, and Mark Rothko.

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Dympna Callaghan

Dympna Callaghan

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Colin G. Calloway

Colin G. Calloway

Colin G. Calloway is the John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He served for two years as associate director of and editor at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. Professor Calloway has written many books on Native American history, including The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and The Transformation of North America (2006); One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003); and two books for the Bedford Series in History and Culture: Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indians Views of How the West Was Lost (1996), and The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America (1994).

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Gregg Camfield

Gregg Camfield

Gregg Camfield, professor of English at the University of the Pacific, has published numerous articles and books on American literature generally and on Mark Twain in particular. Among them are Sentimental Twain: Samuel Clemens in the Maze of Moral Philosophy (U of Pennsylvania P, 1994); Necessary Madness: The Humor Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Oxford UP, 1997); and The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain (2003). He has contributed to The Oxford Historical Guide to Mark Twain, ed. Shelly Fisher Fishkin (2002) and to A Companion to American Literature, ed. Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson (Blackwell, 2005). He is currently writing an advice book for students, How to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in College. Camfield is working with the Mark Twain Project and is a member of the Board of Editors for Studies in American Humor.

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Zander Cannon

Zander Cannon

Illustrator Zander Cannon has worked for clients ranging from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to DC Comics, collaborating on such titles as The Replacement God and Smax and winning two Eisners for their work on Top 10.

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Kevin Cannon

Kevin Cannon

Illustrator Kevin Cannon has worked for clients ranging from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to DC Comics, collaborating on such titles as The Replacement God and Smax and winning two Eisners for their work on Top 10.

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