skype guest speakers
Collin Craig is a PhD Candidate at Michigan State University. His current dissertation project is “Da Art of Storytellin’: Black Masculine Literacies and Rhetorics of Self Making.” He is a regular presenter at the Conference on College Composition and Communication and is a leading scholar on contemporary African American rhetorics.
Qwo-Li Driskill is a Cherokee Two-Spirit/Queer writer, scholar, educator, activist, and performer also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ascent and the author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems. Hir artistic and scholarly work appears in numerous publications, and s/he performs and facilitates workshops at events across Turtle Island. Qwo-Li grew up in rural Colorado and attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley before moving to Seattle in 1998 to attend Antioch University Seattle. In 2004 Qwo-Li moved from Seattle to Michigan, where s/he earned a PhD in Rhetoric & Writing at Michigan State University in 2008. S/he is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University.
Robyn Tasaka currently teaches in the Language Arts Division at Leeward Community College. She received her Ph.D in Rhetoric and Writing from Michigan State University and M.A. and B.A. degrees in English from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her current research focuses on language, culture, power, and identity in online self-representations–in particular in Hawai’i and other related contexts
Michael McLeod, MA is the lead developer at the Michigan State University Writing in Digital Environments Research Center, and he is also adjunct faculty in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. He has worked on several dozen writing research projects, and he’s also considered an important authority on developing software for digital writing research.