About

Ashanka Kumari

Ashanka Kumari is a doctoral fellow in English, Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. Her research interests include digital composition and pedagogy, identity studies, literacy and media studies, and popular culture. She has articles forthcoming in The Journal of Popular Culture and Blake Quarterly. Presently, Ashanka also works on developing digital scholarly editions of dozens of diary and letters written by explorer David Livingstone as part of her collaboration and present position as research assistant forthe Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access and Spectral Imaging digital humanities projects. Ashanka holds a B.A. in English and B.A.C. in Journalism from the University of Alabama and a M.A. in English, Composition and Rhetoric with a specialization certificate in digital humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Patrick Danner

Patrick Danner is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. His research interests span medical rhetorics and the rhetoric of public health, social movement rhetorics, biopolitical theory and theories of resistance and subjectivity. Currently, he thinks and writes about the anti-vaccination and natural health “movements,” what the word “public” in “public health” means, what sort of rhetorical agency is available to contemporary political and medical subjects, and how digital platforms should change how we conceive of social movement activity.

Rick Wysocki

Rick Wysocki is a doctoral student and teacher in the field of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. His research interests include rhetorics that emerge from public and institutional contexts as they relate to notions of subjectivity and agency, rhetorics of technology, new media studies, and the digital humanities. He has also carried out editorial work, most notably as an Editorial Assistant and Fellow at the Henry James Review. Currently, he is researching alternative technology and media practices, examining the discourses and rhetorics that surround them and how they reveal not just technological dispositions but political ones as well.