Kairos: Editorial Staff

The Editorial Staff is responsible for the production of the journal, including coordination of the peer review process conducted by the Editorial Board, copy editing, markup, coding, and style issues. Specific job descriptions for each member of the staff will be linked to the below titles as this node evolves. Questions about staff issues should be directed to either Co-Editor.

James A. Inman

University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

Co-Editor  

James-Inman@utc.edu

James A. Inman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. He teaches courses in professional and technical writing and rhetoric and composition. He is author of Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era (Erlbaum) and co-editor of Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options (Erlbaum), The OWL Construction and Maintenance Guide (IWCA Press), and Taking Flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work (Erlbaum), as well as articles and reviews in such journals as Computers and Composition, JAC, and Writing Center Journal. James is also currently serving as Vice President of the International Writing Centers Association.

Douglas Eyman

Michigan State University

Co-Editor  

eymand@technorhetoric.net

Douglas Eyman is a graduate student in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric Program at MSU. He has served on the board of directors of the Alliance for Computers and Writing and as a member of NCTE's Instructional Technology Committee; he is currently a member of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication. Douglas has also served as the Web Manager for Teaching English in the Two Year College online and taught online courses for the Graduate Center at Marlboro College and the Community College of Southern Nevada.

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Anthony Atkins

Northwestern State University

Communications Co-Editor  

rhet@comcast.net

Tony is Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Writing Center, and Director of the Developmental Writing Program. at Northwestern State University. He teaches courses in rhetorical theory, composition theory, and computers and composition. Currently, he serves on the executive committee for the Research Network Forum sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as well as on the executive committee for the Graduate Research Network sponsored by the International Conference on Computers and Writing. Most recently, he has been awarded a Research Grant from the Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Initiative: Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy—What We Know, What We Need to Know Initiative.

Cheryl Ball

Utah State University

CoverWeb Co-Editor  

cball@english.usu.edu

Cheryl E. Ball, assistant professor of computers and writing at Utah State University, teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in web design, publication management and design, editing, and studies in digital media. Her research interests include analyzing reading and composing strategies for new media texts at the intersection of composition, visual rhetoric, and poetics. She also studies the impact that pedagogies of multiliteracies have on the scholarly practices of tenure-track faculty members. She serves on the editorial board of Computers and Composition Online and is a member of the 7Cs committee.

Matt Barton

University of South Florida

Assistant Editor, Kairos; Editor, Kairosnews  

mbarton3@tampabay.rr.com

Matt Barton is in the Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition program at USF, where he has taught Composition I and II, Basic Writing, and hopes to teach Tech Writing, Creative Writing, and Advanced Writing soon. His scholarly interests include writing & technology, rhetoric, and science fiction. Many of his works are now available online.

Gail Corso

Neumann College

Reviews Co-Editor  

gcor@jersey.net

Gail is an associate professor of Communication & Media Arts and English at Neumann College. She coordinates writing, leads the faculty work group for two programs--Communication & Media Arts and English. In the past several years she facilitated redesign of the communications program to include media arts. As an outcome of the curricular process for redesigning the communications program, an arts production and performance major emerged in addition to two new minors-journalism and writing. In 1999 she along with several other colleagues delivered their first online courses at Neumann College. Gail with Dr. John Eliason (Philadelphia University) serves as current co-chair of the Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators (PWPA), a regional affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. In addition, Gail serves on two editorial advisory boards-for Writing Program Administration, the Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, and, too, Computers and Composition Online. Gail is a graduate of the rhetoric and composition doctoral program in English at Bowling Green State University (1991).

Beth Hewett

CoverWeb Co-Editor  

beth.hewett@comcast.net

Beth L. Hewett earned her M.A. at Kansas State University and her Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Composition) at The Catholic University of America, where she studied the influences of oral and computer-mediated talk in relation to peer response groups. Most recently, NCTE published Preparing Educators for Online Writing Instruction: Principles and Processes, which she co-authored with Christa Ehmann. Beth also is co-editor of Technology and English Studies: Innovative Professional Paths with James Inman (LEA, forthcoming). She developed the Online Writing Program at Smarthinking, Inc., and served as first Director of Online Writing before becoming Assistant Professor of English for Pennsylvania State University. Beth has completed a comprehensive research project into online writing instruction, as well as a study of instant messaging. She consults in online instruction and teacher training, and her current book project-a classically-grounded guide to writing and delivering eulogies-uses rhetoric to address bereavement support. Beth has co-edited the CoverWeb with Cheryl Ball since 2001.

Erin Karper

Niagra University

Communications Co-Editor  

ekarper@niagara.edu

Erin Karper is an assistant professor at Niagara University, where she teaches first-year writing, writing for the Web, and other professional writing courses in Niagara's new writing minor. In addition to her work for Kairos, she also serves as Technology Maven for The Writing Instructor. She served as co-chair of the Computers and Writing 2003 conference, and has been published in The Writing Instructor, The Writing Lab Newsletter, and The OWL Construction and Maintenance Guide, as well as doing educational consulting with a variety of textbook publishers. Her research interests include novice web design(ers), teaching with(out) technologies, and the use and repurposement of content management systems for academic tasks.

Charles Lowe

Purdue University

Editor, Founder, and Site Administrator, Kairosnews  

lowec@purdue.edu

Charles Lowe is a continuing lecturer at Purdue University where he teaches professional writing and is a co-director of the Open Source Development and Documentation Project (OSDDP). His research interests are weblogs in composition pedagogy, content management systems, and intellectual property, particularly with regard to creative commons, open content, and open source.

Clancy Ratliff

University of Minnesota

Editor and Co-Founder, Kairosnews  

ratli008@umn.edu

Clancy Ratliff is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication program at UMN. She teaches First-Year Composition, Technical and Professional Writing, and speech, and her research interests include weblogs, feminist rhetoric, intellectual property, genre theory, and material rhetoric. She is Feminist Rhetoric Field Editor of rhetcomp.com, and you can find out what's on her mind on any given day by reading her weblog, CultureCat.

Colleen Reilly

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Praxis Co-Editor  

reillyc@uncw.edu

Colleen A. Reilly is as an Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of Professional Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her teaching and research interests include professional and technical writing, electronic publication; gender, sexuality, and technology; and science writing. Her recent publications have appeared in Computers and Composition and in the online journal Innovate (formerly The Technology Source).

Rich Rice

Texas Tech University

Reviews Co-Editor  

r.rice@ttu.edu

Rich Rice is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University; his research and teaching interests include contemporary composition and rhetoric, new media and professional writing, networked writing environments, technological literacy curriculum design, TA training, portfolio assessment, distance education, and service learning. A recent graduate of Ball State University, Rich's dissertation focuses on digital portfolios:

"Digital portfolios are increasingly becoming the focus of many statewide curricular initiative changes, from K-12 teacher certification to post-secondary entrance and exit tools to first-year composition and senior-year capstone projects. I document and argue how students' first-year composition digital portfolios impact drafting, revision, collaboration, peer-critique, and reflective writing. Specifically, my dissertation is a qualitative, ethnographic case study which uses grounded theory to produce coding categories that account for how teachers and learners construct, present, and assess writing process instruction using digital portfolios. The study reveals specific findings which indicate the importance of seamless technological literacy instruction and specific strategies for teaching composition to students who have varied computer experience."

He is currently an Assembly on Computers and English Executive Board Member.

Joyce Walker

University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Praxis Co-Editor  

afjcw@uaa.alaska.edu

Joyce Walker is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where she is teaching courses in Composition, Technical Writing, and Writing and Technology. Her research interests are primarily situated at intersections between technological tools and workplace, community, and individual writing/design objectives. Her dissertation project involved a study of online memorial spaces, while her current project examines the use of multimedia tools to create life story narratives.

 

Jeff White

University of Alaska, Anchorage

Archivist  

afjcw@uaa.alaska.edu

Jeff White is a doctoral student in composition and rhetoric at Ball State University where he will be serving as the Assistant to the Director of the Writing Program for the 1998-99 school year. He has taught in computer-assisted classrooms for the past three years and has assisted with the design and teaching of several televised distance education classes. Jeff is active in technology-related faculty development in the English department and is serving as an instructor in the department's Teaching Writing for the 21st Century Institute in the summer of 1998. Besides his interests in technology, Jeff also studies the work of Kenneth Burke; he has presented on both topics at national conferences such as CCCC and the Wyoming Conference on English.

 

Mick Doherty is the founding editor and publisher of Kairos, stepping down from his initial three-year position in June of 1998. Currently on leave from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, he plans to finish his dissertation remotely (the wonders of electronic communication) though at his current rate of six words per week, the finish date is somewhat murky. He spent three years as Internet Editor for the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau, then moved on in August of 2000 to a position as Corporate/Employee Communications Editor for American Airlines in Fort Worth, TX. He is married to Sandye Thompson, the former Chief Copy Editor and Production Manager for Kairos.