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Elected Officers and Board Members
President, Amy CicchinoTerm of Service: July 2024 to June 2026 Questions about GSOLE? Reach out to <president@gsole.org> Amy Cicchino is Associate Director for the Center of Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her research takes up high-impact practices—especially ePortfolios—educator professional development, and multimodal teaching and communication across the disciplines and has appeared in venues such as the International Journal of ePortfolios, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and the Online Literacy Open Resource Effective Practices. She also recently published an edited collection with Troy Hicks, Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces (2024). In addition to her work with GSOLE she has leadership roles in AAEEBL and HIPs in the States. | Vice President, Kevin E. DePewTerm of Service: July 2024 to June 2026 Bio coming soon. |
Treasurer, Elle TysonTerm of Service: April 2024 to June 2027 Elle Tyson is the Assistant Director for ePortfolios & Digital Initiatives at Old Dominion University (ODU), overseeing the daily operations and tutor development for a digital composition tutoring center, ODU’s ePortfolio Studio. At ODU, she completed an MA in applied linguistics with an emphasis in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and is currently working on a PhD in English Studies with emphases in rhetoric, writing, discourse studies and technology, media studies. Elle also teaches composition in ODU's English department and ePortfolio capstone courses in interdisciplinary studies. Her current research focuses on best practices for online tutoring, specifically rapport and relationship building. Within GSOLE, she is also the content curator for ROLE and serves on the Digital GSOLE and Conference Committees. In addition to her work with GSOLE, Elle is the founding treasurer of the Online Writing Centers Association (OWCA). | Secretary, Nikki ChasteenTerm of Service: July 2024 to June 2026 Nikki Chasteen, MA is a full-time Instructor at Florida Atlantic University where she teaches first-year composition and professional writing and a Ph.D. student in Texts and Technology at the University of Central Florida with a focus in composition and online pedagogy, technical communication, and feminist methodologies. Nikki earned her Master’s from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media. Nikki obtained the OLI Certification offered by GSOLE in May 2022 and has served as a GSOLE conference committee member since 2021. |
Immediate Past President,Cat MahaffeyTerm of Service: July 2024 to June 2026 Cat Mahaffey is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies (WRDS) at UNC Charlotte. She teaches first-year writing and courses such as Digital Design Theory and Practice and The Rhetoric of Digital Design. Her research interests include AI, online privacy, accessibility, digital rhetoric, and technical and professional writing. She has a forthcoming book titled ACCESS: Accessible Course Construction for Every Student’s Success. Her other work and research are published in PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors(2021) and Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments (2019). | At-Large Board Member, Nitya PandeyTerm of Service: June 2023 to June 2025 Nitya Pandey is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Rhetoric and Composition program at Ohio University, Athens. She studies the care ethics of multimodal pedagogy in online courses, and is interested in supporting professional development and training programs that can have long-term positive outcomes in virtual pedagogical cultures. |
At-Large Board Member, Mary Lourdes SilvaTerm of Service: June 2023 to June 2025 Mary Lourdes is an Associate Professor of Writing and Director of First-Year Composition at Ithaca College specializing in Language, Literacy, and Writing Studies. She has been active in GSOLE, serving on numerous committees, including the Conference Planning Committee. She is also a musician who plays Flamenco guitar and Spanish classical music and a dancer, specializing in Argentine tango. | At-Large Board Member, Michelle StuckeyTerm of Service: June 2023 to June 2025 Michelle Stuckey is Clinical Associate Professor and Writing Program Administrator at Arizona State University, where she directs a large, fully online first-year writing program. At ASU, she mentors faculty and peer tutors in OWI, collaborates with faculty to design curricula and assesses course outcomes, and innovates in the field of OLI to meet the needs of diverse student populations. |
At-Large Board Member, Tina CalandrinoTerm of Service: June 2024 to June 2026 Native Floridian Tina Calandrino has worked as an educator in higher learning for over 25 years. She began her college career as Faculty at Miami-Dade College working with students in the first Writing Center in the State to use Macintosh computers. This set the tone for an interest in using computers for more practical educational purposes than just the desktop editing that existed at the time. Now an Associate Instructional Designer at the University of Central Florida, her research interests in online learning include Competency-Based Education, Gender/Age/Inclusion Bias, and Faculty Development. Tina has also been a conference track reviewer and session chair for EDUCAUSE, ELI, and OLC, and delivered special topics in instructional design for presentations for the OLC conference as well. Tina works as the TOPkit.org Outreach “To-Go” giving presentations to colleges and universities to engage in disseminating information on Faculty Development in Online Learning and contributing to their monthly digest. You may run into Tina outside of work hours at Disney, learning defense tactics that will come in handy during the zombie apocalypse, and advocating for local farm to table purveyors. | At-Large Board Member, Patrice JohnsonTerm of Service: June 2024 to June 2026 Patrice Johnson is a professor of English at Dallas College Eastfield Campus. For 20 years she has taught developmental English and has recently taught first year writing courses English 1301 and 1302. She is the co-author of the book titled Read Write! Breaking Down a Text and Building Up an Essay 3rd ed. (2023). Her Research interests include AI, literary history, writing studies and educational assessment. She serves as the Faculty Association president at the Eastfield Campus. |
At-Large Board Member, Alex EvansTerm of Service: June 2024 to June 2026 Alex Evans is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of writing studies, rhetoric, and media studies. He is a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in composition, professional writing, and publishing, and he currently serves as the book review editor of the journal Programmatic Perspectives. His scholarly work has been featured or is forthcoming in publications including College English, Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, Composition Studies, Punk and Post-Punk, and The Proceedings of the Computers and Writing Annual Conference. |
Appointed Officers and Committee Chairs
Digital Platforms Manager, Cat MahaffeyTerm of Service: June 2024 to present Cat Mahaffey is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies (WRDS) at UNC Charlotte. She teaches first-year writing and courses such as Digital Design Theory and Practice and The Rhetoric of Digital Design. Her research interests include AI, online privacy, accessibility, digital rhetoric, and technical and professional writing. She has a forthcoming book titled ACCESS: Accessible Course Construction for Every Student’s Success. Her other work and research are published in PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors(2021) and Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments (2019). | Lead Content Curator, Janine MorrisTerm of Service: June 2023 to present Janine Morris is Associate Professor of Writing in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts, and Faculty Coordinator in the NSU Writing and Communication Center at Nova Southeastern University. Her research focuses on emotions and affect in writing centers, online writing instruction, and graduate student writers. Her co-edited collections, Emotions & Affect in Writing Centers, was published in 2022 (Parlor Press). |
ROLE Content Curator, Elle TysonTerm of Service: July 2023 to present Elle Tyson is the Assistant Director for ePortfolios & Digital Initiatives at Old Dominion University (ODU), overseeing the daily operations and tutor development for a digital composition tutoring center, ODU’s ePortfolio Studio. At ODU, she completed an MA in applied linguistics with an emphasis in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and is currently working on a PhD in English Studies with emphases in rhetoric, writing, discourse studies and technology, media studies. Elle also teaches composition in ODU's English department and ePortfolio capstone courses in interdisciplinary studies. Her current research focuses on best practices for online tutoring, specifically rapport and relationship building. Within GSOLE, she is also the content curator for ROLE and serves on the Digital GSOLE and Conference Committees. In addition to her work with GSOLE, Elle is the founding treasurer of the Online Writing Centers Association (OWCA). | Communication Officer, Justin CaryTerm of Service: July 2021 to present Justin is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies Department at The University of North Carolina Charlotte. He teaches a variety of First-Year Writing courses and courses in the WRDS Major/Minor sequence. Outside the classroom, Cary engages in digital composing in a variety of ways from YouTube Content Creation to live Twitch Streaming. Cary's research focuses on digital literacy, multimodal composing practices and ways in which video games, game theory and game design influence and intersect with writing studies practice and pedagogy. From Podcasts to blogs, Cary has work published across a variety of platforms with his most recent video, "Designed to Fail: Embracing Failure as Commonplace Practice", featured as part of a panel at The Conference on College Composition and Communication in Spring 2021. Currently, he is working on investigating the rhetorics of sound and planning new research into the connections between video game sound design, rhetoric and writing studies. You can connect with Justin on Twitter @justinrcary or check out some of his writing on Medium at: justinrcary. #gsole @gsoleducators |
Membership Officer, Tina CalandrinoTerm of Service: July 2024 to present Native Floridian Tina Calandrino has worked as an educator in higher learning for over 25 years. She began her college career as Faculty at Miami-Dade College working with students in the first Writing Center in the State to use Macintosh computers. This set the tone for an interest in using computers for more practical educational purposes than just the desktop editing that existed at the time. Now an Associate Instructional Designer at the University of Central Florida, her research interests in online learning include Competency-Based Education, Gender/Age/Inclusion Bias, and Faculty Development. Tina has also been a conference track reviewer and session chair for EDUCAUSE, ELI, and OLC, and delivered special topics in instructional design for presentations for the OLC conference as well. Tina works as the TOPkit.org Outreach “To-Go” giving presentations to colleges and universities to engage in disseminating information on Faculty Development in Online Learning and contributing to their monthly digest. You may run into Tina outside of work hours at Disney, learning defense tactics that will come in handy during the zombie apocalypse, and advocating for local farm to table purveyors. | OLOR Effective Practices Editor, Jason SnartTerm of Service: Apil. 2016 to present Jason Snart is Professor of English and Chair of Literature, Creative Writing, and Film at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He teaches composition, creative writing, and literature courses in a variety of modes, including online, hybrid, and face-to-face. His research and publishing focuses primarily on hybrid teaching, learning, and development. His most recent book, Making Hybrids Work: An Institutional Framework for Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education, was published in 2016 by NCTE. In 2020/21 Snart was awarded a League for Innovation Excellence award and also won the Outstanding Full-time Faculty award at College of DuPage. |
ROLE Co-Editor, Ashlyn WaldenTerm of Service: July 2020 to present Ashlyn Walden is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She teaches a combination of hybrid and online courses in composition and advanced writing and research. Beyond the classroom, Walden actively mentors faculty in digital design and online writing instruction every year. Research interests primarily include: fostering inquiry-based research in the writing classroom, digital composition and design, accessibility, and user-centered design. Her most recent co-authored book chapter with Cat Mahaffey, “#teachingbydesign: Complicating Accessibility in the Tech-Mediated Classroom,” was published in 2019 by IGI Global. | ROLE Co-Editor, Michelle StuckeyTerm of Service: July 2023 to present Michelle Stuckey is Clinical Associate Professor and Writing Program Administrator at Arizona State University, where she directs a large, fully online first-year writing program. At ASU, she mentors faculty and peer tutors in OWI, collaborates with faculty to design curricula and assesses course outcomes, and innovates in the field of OLI to meet the needs of diverse student populations. |
OLOR Reviews Editor, Beatrice NewmanTerm of Service: December 2021 to present Dr. Beatrice Mendez Newman is Professor in rhetoric/composition/literacy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, one of the largest Hispanic Serving Institutions in the country. Her scholarship reflects the translingual, bicultural, rhetorically rich environment of the region. Additionally, she has published articles in The English Journal and HETS Online Journal on students’ learning agility in online settings. As a certified teacher in Texas with supplemental certification in ESL, she has written several study guides for teacher certification exams in Texas. In 2019, she received UTRGV’s Excellence in Online and Hybrid Teaching and Learning award. A special strand of Beatrice’s research has been collaboration with a high school history teacher on disciplinary literacy and high school to college intersections of learning, the results published in The English Journal and presented at national and regional conferences. Beatrice is an extremely active member of NCTE, serving as a reviewer in CAEP accreditation and judge in the National Achievement Awards in Writing and REALM—Recognizing Excellence in Art & Literary Magazines. In summer 2020, Beatrice was privileged to be named to The English Journal Editorial Review Board. |
Webinar Co-Chair, Sarah LonelodgeTerm of Service: July 2023 to present Dr. Sarah Lonelodge is the Director of the Writing Program and Assistant Professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University. She earned her PhD in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from Oklahoma State University as well as an MA in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Central Oklahoma and a BA in Humanities from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Lonelodge’s research centers on WPA work, composition and professional writing pedagogy related to activism and social justice efforts, and labor inequities in FYC. Currently, she is developing an OER textbook for first-year composition. Her work has recently appeared in The Invisible Professor, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics,The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation, and Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition. E-mail: <webinars@gsole.org> | Webinar Co-Chair, Mary Lourdes SilvaTerm of Service: July 2024 to present Mary Lourdes is an Associate Professor of Writing and Director of First-Year Composition at Ithaca College specializing in Language, Literacy, and Writing Studies. She has been active in GSOLE, serving on numerous committees, including the Conference Planning Committee. She is also a musician who plays Flamenco guitar and Spanish classical music and a dancer, specializing in Argentine tango. E-mail: <webinars@gsole.org> |
Research Committee Co-Chair, Jennifer Burke ReifmanTerm of Service: July 2024 to present Jennifer Burke Reifman is the Director of Lower-Division Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Writing Studies at San Diego State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Education and Writing, Rhetoric and Compositions Studies from U.C. Davis and an M.A., in English Composition from San Francisco State University. Jennifer has been teaching post-secondary writing courses for over 12 years, and her research is deeply concerned with participant-centered methodologies to better understand the impact that Writing Program policies and writing pedagogies have on undergraduate learning and experience. Her work on writing placement and student agency has appeared in the Assessing Writing and her work with undergraduate researchers has been featured in several collections and journals, including Peitho, The Learning Assistance Review, and Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning. E-mail: <research@gsole.org> | Research Committee Co-Chair, Linford LampteyTerm of Service: July 2024 to present Linford Lamptey is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Program in Writing Across Campus (PWAC) at the University of Washington, where he teaches technical communication and linked writing courses. Dr. Lamptey’s doctorate degree in English (2023) is from Miami University, where he focused on African rhetoric, Indigenous rhetorics and methodologies, and decolonial and cultural applications to digital writing and technical communication. His work seeks to emphasize the ways in which Indigenous people use online platforms to tell their stories – which are often underrepresented and/or misrepresented in digital spaces – in affirming their identities and achieving survivance. |