Patricia Bizzell (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the College of the Holy Cross, where she has served as director of Writing Programs and director of the College Honors Program. She has taught courses in rhetoric theory and practice, womens studies, and composition. In 2013 Bizzell earned an M.A. in Jewish Studies from Hebrew College, where she won a prize for her masters thesis. She has published scholarship on Jewish rhetoric and taught courses on Jewish literature. In 2015-16 she was appointed to the Cardin Chair in the Humanities at Loyola University Maryland. Bizzell has published a collection of essays, Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness, as well as many articles on basic writing, writing across the curriculum, and rhetorical theory in such journals as College English, College Composition and Communication, PRE/TEXT, and Rhetoric Review. With Bruce Herzberg she has published Negotiating Difference (Bedford/St. Martins), and with Bruce Herzberg and Nedra Reynolds, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, Sixth Edition (Bedford/St. Martins). In 2008, Bizzell won the prestigious Exemplar Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and in 2018 she was elected to be a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America.

Bruce Herzberg (Ph.D. Rutgers University) is Professor Emeritus of English and Media Studies at Bentley University, where he has taught speech communication, rhetorical theory, composition, and literature. He has also served as the director of the Expository Writing Program and ESL Program, the Writing across the Curriculum Program, and the Business Communication Program. A regular speaker at the Conference on College Composition and Communication and other conferences, Herzberg has published articles on rhetoric and composition in MLN, Rhetoric Review, Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, JAC, and several anthologies including Contending with Words and The Politics of Writing Instruction. With Patricia Bizzell he has published Negotiating Difference (Bedford/St. Martins), and with Patricia Bizzell and Nedra Reynolds, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, Sixth Edition (Bedford/St. Martins).