Meet the Writing Spaces Team

Dr. Trace Daniels-Lerberg; Dr. Dana Driscoll; Dr. Mary K. Stewart; and Dr. Matthew Vetter

This page is to introduce you to the current Writing Spaces managing editors. For Writing Spaces at Oklahoma State University, we intentionally only utilized Writing Spaces articles from the first three volumes of the project. The purpose of this was to make clear that not only are commercial free textbooks entirely possible for First-Year Composition, they have been for many years now through the Writing Spaces project. The current team has already released Volume 4, and Volumes 5 and 6 are coming soon. The current editorial team is hard at work updating the new volumes with even more current work than is featured in this textbook, some of which you can read about in their Commitment to Anti-Racism Statement. Future editions of this textbook will feature articles from new volumes of Writing Spaces, and of course instructors are strongly encouraged to get to know the project and utilize any OER materials for their courses that are appropriate for their classrooms.

We are Oklahoma State University want to thank all current and former editors and participants in the Writing Spaces project, not only for their work on those volumes, but also for their help and support with this project. Go to their websites! Check out their work! Shoot them an email! They are the very best of people.


About the authors

Dr. Trace Daniels-Lerberg is an Assistant Professor (lecturer) for the Department of Rhetoric & Writing Studies at the University of Utah. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Texas—Arlington, with a with a Women’s and Gender Studies graduate certificate. She was the UT—Arlington FYW Assistant Director and the Writing Center Director, where she collaborated with the VP of Research to develop Graduate Student and Faculty Writing Support Programs before joining the U as an Assistant Professor (lecturer) and the Associate Writing Program Director, where she works undergraduate and graduate students. Her research and teaching interests include feminist, indigenous, and postman rhetorics, and focusing on environmental and women writers. Her publications include “Watershed Ethics and Dam Politics: Mapping Biopolitics, Race and Resistance in Sleep Dealer and Watershed,” in Make Waves: Water in Contemporary Literature and Film U of Nevada P (2019); “To ‘See with Eyes Unclouded by Hate’: Princess Mononoke and the Quest for Environmental Balance,” in Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess, Bloomsbury Publishing (2018), and is currently working on an edited collection of short diary fiction. She is the editor of CCCC’s Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty and is a member of the NCTE EB.

Dr. Dana Driscoll is a Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches in the Composition and Applied Linguistics graduate program. While at Purdue, she served as the Purdue OWL’s Coordinator and Technical Coordinator. Her scholarly interests include composition pedagogy, writing centers, writing transfer and writerly development, research methodologies, writing across the curriculum, and assessment. Her work has appeared in journals such as Writing Program Administration, Assessing Writing, Computers and Composition, Composition Forum, Writing Center Journal, and Teaching and Learning Inquiry. Her co-authored work with Sherry Wynn Perdue won the International Writing Center Association’s 2012 Outstanding Article of the Year Award. She has served on the CCCC Executive Board, CCCC Research Impact Award Committee, and on numerous editorial boards.

Dr. Mary K. Stewart is an Associate Professor and the General Education Writing Coordinator for the Literature & Writing Studies Department at California State University, San Marcos. She earned her PhD in Education from University of California-Davis, with a designated emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies. She also holds an MA in Literature and a BA in English. Her qualitative and quantitative research focuses on collaborative learning, online writing instruction, composition pedagogy, and teaching with technology. Her work has appeared in journals such as Computers and Composition, Composition Forum, The Internet and Higher Education, and Journal of Response to Writing. For more information, visit her website.

Dr. Matthew Vetter is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty in the Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD Program. A scholar in writing, rhetoric, and digital humanities, his research explores how technologies shape writing and writing pedagogy. Vetter’s work has appeared in College English, Composition Studies, Composition Forum, Computers and Composition, Pedagogy, Rhetoric Review, and Studies in Higher Education, among other journals. His co-authored book, Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality, is available as an open access ebook from Routledge. For more information on his work, check out Matt’s digital portfolio.

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