Michelle Stuckey, Arizona State University, ROLE Associate Editor

Michelle Stuckey is a Clinical Associate Professor and the writing program administrator for the Writers' Studio, a fully online first-year composition program at Arizona State University. The program serves more than 15,000 online students a year. In her role as WPA, Stuckey leads curriculum design and provides faculty development to support online literacy teachers in the program. Stuckey also directs an online course-embedded peer tutoring program of 80 tutors, in which advanced undergraduates and graduate students mentor students in first-year writing courses. Her recent scholarship has focused on developing contract grading methods to support online teachers and learners.

Jessica Reeher, SUNY Oswego, ROLE Associate Editor

Jessica Reeher is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego and currently serves as department chair. She holds degrees in Communication and Communication and Rhetorical Studies. Additionally, Jessica is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) at Clemson University. Her research interests focus on power and historically marginalized groups and the way(s) in which they are (under)represented in popular culture, specifically through television and film. Jessica teaches courses in Persuasion; Message Criticism; Gender and Communication; Rhetoric of Film; Diversity, Identity, and Communication; Foundations of Communication; and the Communication Capstone. She has developed several courses for online instruction and is an active member in the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at SUNY Oswego.

Elle Tyson, Old Dominion University, ROLE Design Editor

Elle Tyson is the Assistant Director for ePortfolios & Digital Initiatives at Old Dominion University (ODU), overseeing the daily operations and tutor training 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 asynchronous video/screencast feedback. In addition to her work with GSOLE, Elle is the founding treasurer of the Online Writing Centers Association (OWCA).

Frances Chapman, Clemson University

Frances Chapman is a PhD student in Clemson University’s Rhetorics, Communication and Information Design program. She is a current copy editor for Parlor Press and has additional past experience ghost writing, editing and proofreading books for her own company, Write Right Communications. She also has nearly thirty years of experience in journalism and in communications for the nuclear industry and has written and published three creative nonfiction books.

Fran holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, Writing Emphasis, from Columbia College; a Master of Arts in Teaching, English emphasis, from the University of South Carolina; and a Master of Arts in English from Clemson University. In her role as a PhD student at Clemson, she teaches composition and rhetoric to thirty-eight students per semester, with a goal of teaching them writing skills that they will use for the rest of their lives, not only for college.

She has three grown children, one granddog, and four grandcats.