Dana L. Cloud (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Director of the School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Consolation and Control in U.S. Politics and Culture: Rhetorics of Therapy; We ARE the Union: Dissent and Democratic Unionism at Boeing; and Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture, among other articles, edited volumes, and book chapters. She is a longtime activist in movements for social justice. James L. Cherney is an associate professor of communication studies and the director of the communication core at the University of Nevada, Reno. J. David Cisneros is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and affiliate faculty in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, the Center for Writing Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois. Kristen E. Hoerl is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
