Ryan Skinnell Author & Editor

Lydia Wilkes is assistant professor of English at Auburn University. She studies intersections of rhetoric, violence, and writing in public discursive and material spaces. As a gun-owning hunter, she supports firearms regulation as a matter of public health and safety.   Nate Kreuter is associate professor of English and director of first-year writing at the University of Georgia. He has written a variety of articles on rhetoric in the US intelligence community and the rhetorical canon of style. He is a gun-owning hunter and fisherman who believes that the rights afforded by the Second Amendment and sensible firearms regulation can be balanced.   Ryan Skinnell is associate professor of rhetoric and writing and assistant writing program administrator at San José State University. He has written, edited, or coedited six books, including Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley, Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition’s Institutional Fortunes, and Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us about Donald J. Trump. He has published multiple essays in journals and edited collections, and in 2021 he was named “Rhetorician of the Year” by the Young Rhetoricians’ Conference.