Digging into Literature: Strategies for Reading, Analysis and Writing

Joanna Wolfe (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Director of the Global Communication Center at Carnegie Mellon University, where she develops new methods for improving communication instruction across the university. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on teamwork, gender studies, collaborative learning technology , technical writing, and rhetoric Her research on collaborative writing in technical communication classes won the 2006 NCTE award for best article reporting qualitative or quantitative research in technical and scientific communication.

Laura Wilder (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, film, literature, and composition theory. In 2014, her Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies: Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines (2012) received the Research Impact Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and in 2015 she received both the Presidents Excellence in Teaching Award from the University at Albany and the Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching from the SUNY system.