Participants: Beth Keller, Matt Cox, and Marliee Brooks-Gillies
Interview Team: Sharieka Botex, Nick Buonanni, and Colton Wansitler
Interview Date: July 8, 2020
Interview Time: 1:01:29

Beth Keller is an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics, Rhetoric and Writing at Purdue University Fort Wayne. She received her PhD from Michigan State University in 2015, and her research focuses on rhetoric and writing, mentoring networks, technical communication, workplace writing and relationships, and gender studies.

Matt Cox graduated with his Ph.D from Michigan State University and is currently an associate professor of English and coordinator of the Ph.D program in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication at East Carolina University. His research interests include queer and LGBT rhetorics, studies in professionalization and identity as a narrative, technical and personal writing, cultural rhetorics, and rhetorics of intersectionality.

Marilee Brooks-Gillies earned her Ph.D from Michigan State University in 2013 and is an assistant professor of English as well as the director of the University Writing Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She also currently serves as the President of the East Central Writing Centers Association and on the IWCA Inclusion and Social Justice Task Force. Marilee’s scholarship examines cultural rhetorics and writing centers with an emphasis on place-making in communities of practice.