2025 Contributors
Jennifer Grouling (she/her) is currently a Lecturer at UMass Boston after recently moving from Indiana where she was a Professor at Ball State University for many years. Jennifer has been the co-facillitator of the documentarian project since 2025 and has also been active in community diary projects. She is also a member of the CCCC Task Force on Academic Freedom and the Labor Caucus.
Nicole Guinot Varty (she/her) is a Professor of Teaching in the English Department at Wayne State University. A writer and a teacher of writing, her scholarship explores ecologies of student and teacher support, including rhetorical empathy, linguistic diversity, student voice, and assessment. As a documentarian, she loved purposefully paying attention to her conference experience and then writing it all down.
Adrienne Jankens (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Wayne State University. She has participated in the documentarian project since 2020 and took on co-facilitation of the project in 2025. Adrienne researches writing program administration, teacher development, reflective writing, first-year writing, and community writing.
Quang Ly (he/him) is a Lecturer in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Miami, where he teaches in the first‑year writing program.
Jenny McFadden (she/her) holds a B.A. in English, an M.A. in Rhetoric & Composition, and an Ed.D. in Literacy Studies. She strives to be a devoted wife and mother while also maintaining excellence in the classroom. She loves Wor-Wic Community College, where she currently holds the title of associate professor and has taught for over a decade during her twenty-plus year career. Jenny especially relates to her first-generation scholars, as she was also the first in her family to attend college.
Don Moore is a Compositionist at the University of Florida, and as a regular presenter at the CCCC, Don presents his experimental work in the composition classroom as a way to build onto writing center history, composition pedagogy, and develop students' writing and research across the disciplines.
John Paul O. Dela Rosa (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Illinois. His research investigates how information spreads within multimodal ecologies, specifically on platforms like TikTok. His broader research interests include topics on digital rhetoric, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), World Englishes, English Language Teaching (ELT), and Postcolonial Theories. In 2019, he participated in the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program where he taught Tagalog as a world language at NIU.
Evan Thomas (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. There he has also served as Writing Resources Coordinator and created the Media Lab. His dissertation research concerned the early print period of image-texts, and he has also published on the ethics of care in serial fiction and more recently on the uses and abuses of theory leading up to Project Cybersyn.
Clay Walker (he/him) is a Lecturer III in the College of Engineering's Technical Communication program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His scholarship addresses the interplay of literacies, embodied cognition, style, and agency. Current projects focus on how students use GenAI and the impact of algorithmic style on cognition and action in the world.