Kelli Cargile Cook (Ph.D., Texas Tech University)

Professor Cargile Cook teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric and technical communication, including editing, professional writing technologies, rhetoric, computer-based training, and interactive media. Her research examines pedagogical theories and practice in online writing instruction, and issues in programmatic assessment. Her research has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly and Technical Communication. With Professor Grant-Davie, she published the edited collection, Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers.

Keith Gibson (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)

Professor Gibson teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric and technical communication, including rhetorical theory, document design, editing, and usability testing. His research has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, The KB Journal, and The Writing Instructor. His current research focuses on the interactions of scientific rhetoric and public policy, including analyses of environmental rhetoric, artificial intelligence, and neuroethics.

Keith Grant-Davie (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego)

Professor Grant-Davie teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric and technical communication. He regularly teaches reading theory and rhetorical theory, and has been serving as the Director of Graduate Studies since 1999. His research has been published in journals such as JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, Rhetoric Review, and The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. With Professor Cargile Cook, he published the edited collection, Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers.

David Hailey (Ph.D., University of New Mexico)

Professor Hailey researches and teaches interactive media courses, including online help, online instruction, intranet technologies, 2-D and 3-D animation and simulation, and visual design for interactive technologies. His research has been published in journals such as Technical Communication, Computers and Composition, The Journal of Engineering Education, and Text Technology. In addition, he has published more than a dozen book-length digital documents. He is currently director of Interactive Media Research Labs, examining the evaluation of writing quality in digital documents.

Christine Hult (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

Christine Hult has been a professor of English composition and professional communications for over twenty years. Her research interests include writing across the curriculum, online instruction, computers in writing, research writing, program assessment, and women in academia, and her teaching includes a graduate course in online instruction. She has published widely, often with a focus on technology in the writing classroom or writing across the curriculum.

Beyond the university, she might be found running a marathon or on her bicycle competing in races like the 206 mile Logan-to-Jackson relay, or cycling with her husband in more romantic settings like Tuscany and Slovenia.

Ryan Moeller (Ph.D., University of Arizona)

Professor Moeller teaches rhetoric and technology classes. His research focuses on technique and technology. He has published in Technical Communication Quarterly, Kairos, and the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. He has also served as a co-guest editor of the journal Works Days. The topic of his special issue is Capitalizing on Play: The Politics of Computer Gaming.

Ron Shook (Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Professor Shook teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in technical communication, primarily in the areas of document design, specifications, and environmental impact statements. His recent publications include a handbook for preparing oral technical reports, a paper on graphic design for ACM SIGDOC, and a professional consulting manual about the preparation of specifications and statements of work in industry.

John McLaughlin (Ph.D., University of Kansas)

Professor McLaughlin teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in proposal writing and marketing documents. He also teaches undergraduate courses in linguistics including nine on-line courses. He spent a number of years working in the proposal development and publications departments of two major aerospace companies and emphasizes the relationship between the technical communicator and the customer. He has written several successful proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, among others. His linguistic research has been published in collections and journals such as Anthropological Linguistics, International Journal of American Linguistics, Names, and, most recently, Uto-Aztecan: Structural, Temporal, and Geographic Perspectives. He is currently researching how much chance resemblance can affect work on language comparison and language family relationships beyond 6,000 years.