Thomas Lutes is a Ph.D. Journalism & Mass Communication Candidate at the Walter Cronkite School. His research relies on critical discourse analysis of drag performers and their kinship structures in popular media.

Dagmar Van Engen is an honors faculty fellow and director of the Barrett Writing Center. His research and teaching explore speculative fiction, multiethnic American literatures, and composition pedagogy.

Currently, Mallory is working to launch an institute and book project that examines the impact missing people and objects have on the production of Black queer space.

The violences that sex workers experience--particularly state violence--drives Dr. Jackson’s research of U.S. sex worker rights organizing and domestic anti-sex trafficking ideology.

Dan Lesko is a dual credit high school English instructor, English department chair, former English university lecturer, and advocate for utilizing technological advancements to improve education.