Cydney Alexis

Role(s) in GSOLE: Co-chair, Webinars Committee

Cydney Alexis is associate professor of English (Writing Studies track) at Kansas State University. She is co-editor (with Hannah Rule) of The Material Culture of Writing (2022) and Writing Artifacts (in publication; anticipated 2026) and her work has appeared in Bad Ideas about Writing, Composition Studies, Inside Higher Education, Rhetorical Ontologies, and Slate. Through her teaching and research, she encourages writers to consider the material richness and affordances of the material aspects of their writing artifacts, tools, and environments. With Theresa Merrick Cassidy, she is conducting qualitative research on AI and writing funded by a Kansas State University GRIPex: AI in the Disciplines grant; together, they are also building a microcredential in AI and writing housed in K-State's Department of English.

Jessie Borgman

Role(s) in GSOLE: At-large member

Jessie Borgman is an instructor in the Writers’ Studio at Arizona State University. She is the co-founder of The Online Writing Instruction Community resources website and the co-founder of the PARS (personal, accessible, responsive, strategic) framework for online writing instruction. She is the founding secretary for GSOLE (2016) and currently serves on the board as an at-large member. She is also currently the Chair of the CCCC Standing Group for Online Writing Instruction.

Jennifer Burke Reifman

Role(s) in GSOLE: Co-chair, Research Committee

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>

Tina Calandrino

Role(s) in GSOLE: At-large member

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.

Eric Camarillo

Role(s) in GSOLE: OLOR Reviews Editor

Dr. Eric Camarillo is the Dean of the Learning Commons at Tarrant County College's Northwest campus, where he oversees the Library and Learning Support Services, including subject-area tutoring, the writing center, and supplemental instruction. He is formerly the Director of the Learning Commons at Harrisburg Area Community College where he oversaw testing, the library, user support, and tutoring services at all five campuses. His research agenda is currently focused on writing centers and best practices within these spaces, and how these practices change in asynchronous and synchronous online modalities. He has published in WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, and The Journal of Academic Support Programs. He has presented his research at numerous conferences including the International Writing Center Association and the Conference on College Composition and Communication; in 2024, he served as the keynote speaker for the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association conference. He is currently the Vice President of the South Central Writing Centers Association and the Editor for OLOR Reviews; he is also the past President of the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing and the former reviews editor for the Writing Center Journal.

Justin Cary

Role(s) in GSOLE: Communications Officer

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

Nikki Chasteen

Role(s) in GSOLE: Secretary

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.

Amy Cicchino

Role(s) in GSOLE: President, Co-Chair Certification Committee

Amy Cicchino is Director of the University Writing Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the Unviersity of Central Florida. Her research takes up writing program administration, 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.

Jennifer Smith Daniel

Role(s) in GSOLE: Co-Chair IDEACommittee

Jennifer is the Director of the Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs and hold a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from UNC Greensboro. She enjoys working with students at the college level – particularly first year students – because it is a time of discovery and trial. To her every student can be successful. Supporting students means also supporting faculty, so her WPA work offers a space to build coalitions that support a culture of writing and learning through ecological assessment practices.

Role(s) in GSOLE: Vice President, Co-Chair IDEA Committee, Co-Chair Conference Committee, Co-Chair Certification Committee

Alex Evans

Role(s) in GSOLE: At-large member

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.

Tess Evans

Role(s) in GSOLE: Co-chair Conference Committee

Tess Evans is an Associate Teaching Professor of Professional Writing in the Department of English at Miami University (Ohio). She teaches courses in face-to-face, online, and hybrid environments, including Professional Communication for Business, Professional Communication for Data Analytics, and Technical Writing. In spring 2025, her most recent work, “Transcending Binaries of Course Delivery: A Transmedia Mindset as Resistance to a Single Standard and a Default Normal” was published in Technical Communication & Social Justice. Tess also has articles published in Rhetoric Review, The Proceedings of the Computers and Writing Conference, and the Online Literacies Open Resource (OLOR). She has contributed chapters for three edited collections: Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces; PARS in Practice: More Resources for Online Writing Instructors; and Women's Ways of Making. Tess has served on the executive board as Secretary and Treasurer, and she has been co-chair of GSOLE’s virtual conference since 2021. You can contact Tess Evans at evanstm3@miamioh.edu

Kenna Grove

Role(s) in GSOLE: Chair, Outreach Committee

After graduating from Lincoln North Star High School, Kenna attended the University of Nebraska at Kearney earning an undergraduate degree in English Education and a Master of Arts in English (Composition and Rhetoric emphasis) in May 2021. In January 2019, she joined The Career Academy in Lincoln Public Schools as an English instructor, which has inspired much of her scholarship about writing knowledge transfer, online literacy instruction, and critical transition studies. She characterizes herself as a lifelong learner and hopes to share her enthusiasm for education with integrity and dedication to those she encounters in the world. Wholeheartedly, she believes that our learning growth is a fundamental right we all deserve as humans, which has guided what she considers to be her mission in life: to serve her community as an advocate for all learners pursuing their right to an equitable and quality education.

Patrice Johnson

Role(s) in GSOLE: At-large member

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.

Linford Lamptey

Role(s) in GSOLE: Co-chair Research Committee

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.

Cat Mahaffey

Role(s) in GSOLE: Immediate past president, Chair Publications Committee, Co-chair Digital Committee

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).

Janine Morris

Role(s) in GSOLE: Digital Content Manager, Co-chair Affiliates Committee, Co-chair Digital GSOLE Committee

Janine Morris is an 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).

Nitya Pandey  

Role(s) in GSOLE: Co-chair Certification Committee

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.

Mary Lourdes Silva

Role(s) in GSOLE: At-large member; Co-chair, Webinars Committee

Jason Snart

Role(s) in GSOLE: Editor Effective Practices

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.

Michelle Stuckey

Role(s) in GSOLE: Editor ROLE

Michelle Stuckey is Director of Composition at the University of Oregon. 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.

Mariya Tsepstura

Role(s) in GSOLE: At-large member

Mariya Tseptsura directs the Online Writing Program at the University of Arizona, where she is in charge of developing and maintaining the OWP’s shared curricular materials as well as supporting and training all writing instructors teaching online. She has been teaching online since 2014, and her research focuses on curriculum design, online writing instruction and online WPA work, as well as linguistic diversity in online environments. Her work has been published in College Composition and Communication, WPA Journal, and multiple edited collections.

Kathleen Turner Ledgerwood

Role(s) in GSOLE: Assistant Treasurer; Co-chair, IDEA Committee

Kathleen Turner Ledgerwood is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Communication and the Director of the Virtual Environment for Communication: Teaching Outreach and Research (VECTOR) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Her research interests include AI, online literacy, accessibility, media literacy, and popular culture. She currently teaches fully online courses and enjoys working with faculty and students on improving communication pedagogy and on communication research. She is particularly interested in developing online support for learners through developing resources and fully online tutoring. She has published on pedagogy and popular culture in a few books and journals, including Effective Practices, PARS in Practice, and Feminist Pedagogy.

Elle Tyson

Role(s) in GSOLE: Treasurer, Design Editor ROLE

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 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 design editor 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).