About the Editors

Dr. Sara Nezami Nav joined ELI at the University of Michigan as a Lecturer III in August 2022. She teaches academic writing and research writing courses to international graduate students and serves as a consultant for Graduate Writing and Speaking Clinics.

Sara believes that teaching and research go hand in hand. Her research interests revolve around discourse analysis of academic and occupational genres taking both ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and multimodal analysis approaches. She is particularly interested in the multimodal discourse analysis of the recently developed digital genres for the specific purpose of communicating science to a wider audience. Sara is passionate about advancing graduate students’ knowledge of these new research disseminating genres as well as the use of popularization strategies in them to help these emerging scholars make their research findings more accessible especially in STEM fields

Mx. Hann Bingham Brunner, MA is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics and Rhetoric at Oklahoma State University with a focus in disability studies. They are an Assistant Director of the International Composition program, as well as an Assistant Director for First-Year Writing (Freshman Composition), and  instructor for courses such as Critical Writing and Analysis II: Disability Justice and Accessibility. Their work focuses on disability and identity, and the ways that these intersect with chronic illness, neurodivergence, and chronic pain. They are the recipient of the Carol G. Preston Award for Social Justice Research (2022), the Gene Halleck award for Teaching Excellence (2021) and the EQuAl (Employee Queers and Allies) scholarship (2020).