Laura Gray-Rosendale is Associate Professor of English and Director of the S.T.A.R. (Successful Transition and Academic Retention) Summer Writing Bridge program at Northern Arizona University. She specializes in Rhetoric and Composition, teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in cultural studies and visual rhetoric, the history of rhetoric, gender studies, and literacy theory. Along with over thirty articles and book chapters, Gray-Rosendale has published Rethinking Basic Writing: Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in Interaction (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000), Alternative R...