Masthead – Writing Spaces

Managing Editors

Bryna Siegel Finer

Bryna Siegel Finer is a Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as the Director of Undergraduate Writing Programs (general education writing and literature, university-wide and first-year writing assessment, first-year writing placement). She is a regular presenter at the Conference on College Composition and Communication; her published work has appeared in Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, Rhetoric Review, Teaching Writing in the Two-Year College, Praxis, Composition Studies, and the Journal of Teaching Writing, among others. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture: Thirty Cases for Reference and Research (2017) and Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century (2019) and the co-author of Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health (2023). She is also the associate editor for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine journal. For more information, visit her website.

White woman with brown hair and glasses, plaid shirt — Mary Stewart

Mary K. Stewart is an Associate Professor and the General Education Writing Coordinator for the Literature & Writing Studies Department at California State University, San Marcos. She earned her PhD in Education from University of California-Davis, with a designated emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies. She also holds an MA in Literature and a BA in English. Her qualitative and quantitative research focuses on collaborative learning, online writing instruction, and writing program administration. Her work has appeared in journals such as Computers and Composition, Composition Forum, The Internet and Higher Education, and Journal of Response to Writing.

Matthew Vetter is a Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. A scholar in writing, rhetoric, and digital humanities, his research explores how technologies shape writing and writing pedagogy. Vetter’s work has appeared in College English, Composition Studies, Composition Forum, Computers and Composition, Pedagogy, Rhetoric Review, and Studies in Higher Education, among other journals. His co-authored book, Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality, is available as an open access ebook from Routledge. For more information on his work, check out Matt’s digital portfolio.

Associate Editor, Strategic Planning and Digital Initiatives

Colin Charlton

Colin Charlton is Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing & Language Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, still working at his first post-doctoral home. He graduated in 2005 with a PhD in English and a specialization in Rhetoric & Composition from Purdue University with secondary areas of study in Professional, Technical, & Digital Writing & Rhetoric and Philosophy & Cultural Studies. He is a designer, teacher, and collaborator who especially enjoys his work with transitional college writing students and future writing teachers. His research includes writing pedagogy, event theories and design thinking, and (writing program) administration. With his friends and long-time partners in thinking and writing, he co-authored Gen-Admin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the 21^st Century, winner of the Council of Writing Program Administrator’s 2011-2012 Best Book Award.

Associate Editors, Activities & Assignments Archive

David T. Coad is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He teaches a variety of courses, including FYC, Internet Culture, AI and Writing, Rhetorical Theory, and Engineering Communication. As an editor and researcher, he has a passion for translating theoretical and research-based insights into practical applications for classroom use, such as in his work on Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition (NCTE, 2023), and Digital Literacies for Human Connection (NCTE, 2026). He has published his work in Kairos, Computers and Composition, and the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. For more info, visit his website.

Brian Ernst smiling in his office. — Brian Ernst

Brian Ernst teaches a variety of lower and upper-division courses as a Continuing Lecturer of Composition with the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include rhetorical code studies and narrative design in interactive media with a focus on multimodal writing. He is also a contributor to the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative. Dr. Ernst completed his Ph.D. in Modern European History at the end of 2014.