Our Approach and Editorial Team

Dr. Joshua Daniel (formerly published under Joshua Daniel-Wariya) is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Oklahoma State University and he directs the First-Year Composition Program. His research is on the persuasive capacities of games and software, and his work has appeared in journals such as Games and Culture, Computers and Composition, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and he created the textbook Who Teaches Writing. He is also a tremendous Twitter follow, and you can contact him there through @drjldaniel

Kathy’s background is in music education, where she enjoyed over fifteen fantastic years making music with MS/HS band students (including her own two kids). She is an Assistant Professor/Coordinator of OER at Oklahoma State University, and was a 2019-2020 OER Research Fellow. She holds Masters degrees in trumpet performance and educational technology, and a PhD in Learning, Design and Technology from OSU.

Mark DiFruscio, Editor of Section I: “Listening to and Representing an Argument,” is a PhD candidate in English at Oklahoma State University. His previously published work has appeared in Fiction International, The Laurel Review, and Puerto del Sol. His story “The Alien Dialogues” was selected as one of the winners of the 2020 AWP Intro Journals Contest. He has been teaching creative writing, literature, and composition and rhetoric since 201, at San Diego State University and Oklahoma State University.

Natasha Tinsley, Editor of Section II: “Analyzing and Evaluating an Argument,” M.Ed., MFA, is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Writing Center in the the Language and Literature Department at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Dr. Josiah Meints, Editor of Section III: Describing and Explaining a Scholarly Conversation,” is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies and the Assistant Director of the Cowboy Concurrent Composition program at Oklahoma State University. His research primarily focuses on the multimodal composition and the rhetoric of video games and college athletics. His scholarship on video games has appeared in Gamevironments and G/A/M/E: The Italian Journal of Game Studies.

Dr. Courtney Lund O’Neil, Editor of Section IV: “Entering and Participating in a Scholarly Conversation,”  is a lecturer in the Analytical Writing Program at the University of California, San Diego. She served as an Assistant Director for Oklahoma State University’s First-Year Composition Program and the university Writing Center. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Columbia Journal, The Normal School, and elsewhere. Her academic and research interests include mindfulness, anti-racist pedagogy, vulnerability in the writing classroom, and writing for social change. She is currently working on her first book. You can find her on Twitter, @courtneylundo.

Dane Howard, Editor of Section V: “Selected Essays on Writing Processes,” is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Oklahoma State University, where he has also served Supervisor of the Multimodal Writing Studio.

Roseanna is editor in charge of cover design. Her bio will go here.