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I am a third-year Ph.D. student in rhetoric, composition, and literacy. I am particularly interested in teaching composition with technology, and preparing instructors to increasingly incorporate technology into their composition courses. When I'm not reading, I love a friendly game of racquetball, a leisurely bike ride, and playing with my MacBook.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy, and my emphasis is in rhetoric, technology, and intellectual property.

I am currently teaching English 276, Introduction to Rhetoric, and I work as an assistant to The Digital Media Project (DMP) and as the Praxis Co-Editor with Alex Reid for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy. Along with Katie, Kelly, Catie, and Tim, I work on the e-publishing venture, Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, which has been a collaborative project supported and helped along by countless others.

Tim is a first-year Ph.D student focusing on the rhetoric of social movements, with special concentration on identity formation, individual praxis, and the impact of technology on activist rhetorics. He serves on the Editorial board of Harlot, an upstart digital magazine and web forum dedicated to issues of rhetoric in everyday life. For his class, "Rhetoric & Dissent," Tim was given the 2008 Vera Carter Cooley Award for Excellence in Teaching First-Year Composition. A few things that fascinate him include: writing in the third person, alienation from the means of production, Kenneth Burke's mustache, and the Tao of Being Brakeless.

Cormac Slevin is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. His teaching and research interests include nonmarket entrepreneurship and the politics, economics,and sociology of the arts and humanities. In addition to his research, Cormac Slevin also works for the economic development of the Columbus non-profit arts community as a grant writer and Development Associate at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

(BA-Vanderbilt '05, MA-OSU '07). Specializing in modernism/ 20th c. Interests include British history, narrative theory, Joyce, Romantic/Victorian, digital media/literature and technology, language, theology, theatre and film. Most recently, I have been researching issues of class and education in early 20th-c. British fiction, specifically around lower middle class characters and ideals of self-education. I also work with the International James Joyce Foundation, and Project Narrative.

Melanie Yergeau is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at The Ohio State University. Her academic interests include digital media studies and disability studies. She has published in _Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy_ and _Computers and Composition Online_ and was a recipient of the 2009 Kairos Best Webtext Award and the 2008 Kairos Graduate Student Award for Service. She currently directs the Central Ohio chapter of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN).