Connie Kendall Theado is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. in English from Miami University (Ohio). Her scholarship appears in JAC, Language and Literacy, Classroom Discourse, Open Words, and several edited collections.

Samantha NeCamp is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of two monographs: Adult Literacy and American Identity and Literacy in the Mountains. She received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville.