About the Roundtable Presenters

[Title: The Presenters]

[picture of Bizzell] Diana George is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. She is the co-author, with John Trimbur, of Reading Culture (Longman Press). Her work has appeared in such varied journals as College Composition and Communication, Cultural Studies, and The Journal of Film and Video.

[picture of Bizzell] Patricia Bizzell is is Professor of English and Director, College Honors Program, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She began the Writing-across-the-Curriculum Program and the Writers Workshop (a peer tutoring facility) at Holy Cross and directed them for over ten years. Among her publications are, co-authored with her husband, Bruce Herzberg, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing (fourth edition 1996), Negotiating Difference: Cultural Cases for Composition (a first-year writing text, Bedford, 1995), and The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present (Bedford, 1990, winner of the 1992 NCTE Outstanding Book Award and currently in progress with a second edition). Her essays have been collected in Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness (University of Pittsburgh, 1992).

[picture of Cooper] Marilyn Cooper is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Michigan Technological University, where she also directs GTA education. She is the author (with Michael Holzman) of Writing as Social Action and also of essays on composition theory and practice and environmental rhetoric. Her current research project began with an impulse to pay more serious attention to what students in college say about their experiences in writing and in writing classes.

[picture of Okawa] Gail Okawa, Assistant Professor of English at Youngstown State University, is interested in multicultural literacy, cultural rhetorics, and sociolinguistics, exploring especially representation and use of autobiographical narrative in such studies. She has written chapters for such collections as Race, Rhetoric, and Composition (K. Gilyard, ed., Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, forthcoming), Composition Research as Critical Practice (C. Farris and C. Anson, eds., Utah State University Press, forthcoming), Writing in Multicultural Settings (C. Severino, J.C. Guerra, and J. E. Butler, eds., MLA, 1997), Ethnicity and the American Short Story (J. Brown, ed., Garland Press, 1997), and Writing Centers in Context (J. Kinkead and J. Harris, eds., NCTE, 1993). She is currently working on a study of mentoring among senior scholars of color and a chapter for Race, Class, and Writing, edited by Sidney Dobrin. A member of the CCCC Executive Committee, she also serves on the CCCC Language Policy Committee.

[picture of Malinowitz] Harriet Malinowitz is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn. She is the author of Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities (Heinemann, 1995) as well as numerous articles on composition, pedagogy, feminism, and lesbian and gay studies. She has written lesbian standup comedy that has been performed by her partner Sara Cytron across the country and published in various books, including Out, Loud, and Laughing: A Collection of Lesbian and Gay Humor (Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995). She is a frequent contributor to The Women's Review of Books, and from 1993 to 1997 served on the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), affiliated with CUNY. She was the organizer of CLAG's 1997 day-long "Queer Pedagogy: A Colloquium on Sexuality and Curricular Transformation."

[picture of Cushman] A mostly good kid, Ellen Cushman keeps herself out of trouble by writing and teaching in UC Berkeley's College Writing Program. Forthcoming this year with SUNY Press, her latest book, The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community, is based on three-and-a-half years of activist ethnographic research in upstate New York. Work contributing to the book has won the 1996 CCCC Braddock Award as well as the 1996 Jim Berlin Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award.

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	Diana George is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. She is the co-author, with John Trimbur, of Reading Culture (Longman Press). Her work has appeared in such varied journals as College Composition and Communication, Cultural Studies, and The Journal of Film and Video.
	Patricia Bizzell is is Professor of English and Director, College Honors Program, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She began the Writing-across-the-Curriculum Program and the Writers Workshop (a peer tutoring facility) at Holy Cross and directed them for over ten years. Among her publications are, co-authored with her husband, Bruce Herzberg, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing (fourth edition 1996), Negotiating Difference: Cultural Cases for Composition (a first-year writing text, Bedford, 1995), and The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present (Bedford, 1990, winner of the 1992 NCTE Outstanding Book Award and currently in progress with a second edition). Her essays have been collected in Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness (University of Pittsburgh, 1992).
	Marilyn Cooper is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Michigan Technological University, where she also directs GTA education. She is the author (with Michael Holzman) of Writing as Social Action and also of essays on composition theory and practice and environmental rhetoric. Her current research project began with an impulse to pay more serious attention to what students in college say about their experiences in writing and in writing classes.
	Gail Okawa, Assistant Professor of English at Youngstown State University, is interested in multicultural literacy, cultural rhetorics, and sociolinguistics, exploring especially representation and use of autobiographical narrative in such studies. She has written chapters for such collections as Race, Rhetoric, and Composition (K. Gilyard, ed., Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, forthcoming), Composition Research as Critical Practice (C. Farris and C. Anson, eds., Utah State University Press, forthcoming), Writing in Multicultural Settings (C. Severino, J.C. Guerra, and J. E. Butler, eds., MLA, 1997), Ethnicity and the American Short Story (J. Brown, ed., Garland Press, 1997), and Writing Centers in Context (J. Kinkead and J. Harris, eds., NCTE, 1993). She is currently working on a study of mentoring among senior scholars of color and a chapter for Race, Class, and Writing, edited by Sidney Dobrin. A member of the CCCC Executive Committee, she also serves on the CCCC Language Policy Committee.
	Harriet Malinowitz is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn. She is the author of Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities (Heinemann, 1995) as well as numerous articles on composition, pedagogy, feminism, and lesbian and gay studies. She has written lesbian standup comedy that has been performed by her partner Sara Cytron across the country and published in various books, including Out, Loud, and Laughing: A Collection of Lesbian and Gay Humor (Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995). She is a frequent contributor to The Women's Review of Books, and from 1993 to 1997 served on the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), affiliated with CUNY. She was the organizer of CLAG's 1997 day-long "Queer Pedagogy: A Colloquium on Sexuality and Curricular Transformation."
	A mostly good kid, Ellen Cushman keeps herself out of trouble by writing and teaching in UC Berkeley's College Writing Program. Forthcoming this year with SUNY Press, her latest book, The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community, is based on three-and-a-half years of activist ethnographic research in upstate New York. Work contributing to the book has won the 1996 CCCC Braddock Award as well as the 1996 Jim Berlin Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award.