In this introductory post you'll learn about one of the newest ProfHacker authors, Erin E. Templeton.

Erin E. Templeton is an Assistant Professor of English at Converse College, a women's liberal arts college in Spartanburg, South Carolina. There she teaches American literature, twentieth-century British and Irish literature, and composition. Her current research interests focus on various configurations of male-female authorship in transatlantic modern literature. She currently serves as the Vice-President of the William Carlos Williams Society. One of these days, she aspires to write an essay on F. Scott Fitzgerald "with soul," like her idol Sydney Bristow, and in her spare time, she enjoys walking her dog and cheering for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Erin's posts to date have ranged from classroom issues such as:

• Silence is Golden... ("...unless you are trying to run a classroom ...

In today's author introduction, I give you ProfHacker author Brian Croxall. CHE readers might already be familiar with Brian's work, as "On Going Viral at the (Virtual) MLA" [paywall] appeared in the March 7, 2010 issue of The Chronicle Review; in that article Brian talks about the aftermath of the MLA paper he didn't deliver at the conference ("The Absent Presence: Today's Faculty") but instead posted online.

Currently, Brian Croxall is a visiting assistant professor of English at Clemson University. Shortly, Brian will join the Emerging Technologies Team at Emory University Library as a CLIR postdoctoral fellow. He tells us that receiving a Commodore 64 for Christmas when he was seven provoked a lifelong fascination with technology, and his consequent/current research into how the discourse of trauma is powered by technological metaphors allows him to read and teach across 150 years ...

In the continuing series of introductions to ProfHacker writers—new, as we are, to this space in the CHE—I'm happy to introduce you to ProfHacker author Nels P. Highberg.

Nels P. Highberg is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Hartford, where he also serves as Director of the General Education Rhetoric and Writing Program and is the former director of the Program in Gender Studies. He has spent his academic life transgressing traditional disciplinary boundaries by taking graduate courses in departments as diverse as art history, education, English, film, women's studies, history, science studies, and architecture. This has led to teaching a wide range of courses from Professional Editing and Rhetroics of Gender Activism to Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Pain, Graphic Memoirs, and Virus Narratives. He is the co-editor of Landmark Essays in ...

Recently, Natalie asked me if it was easy or difficult to write an introduction for someone you've known for years. The answer is: more difficult.

As I was reading through her ProfHacker work and collecting the "best of" for this post, I thought to myself, "You've been a nerd for years and years. I remember your Compaq LTE laptop—write more about super geeky things!" Comments like that (in my head) can keep me from recognizing the wonderful work she has done here in the productivity and wellness categories. So, while I know she can throw down in the software section anytime she wants, I shall endeavor to introduce you to my super focused and relaxed friend, Natalie Houston, who's here to help the rest of us find a little balance.

Natalie Houston is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston, where she teaches courses in Victorian literature,...

Trust me when I say it feels like it's been ages since we migrated ourselves to the CHE—but no, it has only been a week. We are grateful for those regular ProfHacker readers who followed us here, and are pleased to welcome the multitudes of new readers that our new space has brought to us.

On Sunday evenings we publish a "week in review" post that contains links (sometimes with commentary) to those items published throughout the previous week. Although we were on a reduced publishing scheduled last week—and will continue to be in the upcoming week—we still thought a "week in review" post would be valuable.

You all got an earful from me, because as Managing Editor I'm tasked with introducing the authors. This week I introduced George H. Williams, Jason B. Jones, Billie Hara, and Amy Cavender. Natalie Houston was kind enough to introduce yours truly.

Each ProfHacker author...

In this post, I am pleased to introduce you to ProfHacker author Amy Cavender.

Amy Cavender is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary's College, where she teaches both introductory and upper-level courses in Political Thought, as well as courses in Religion and Politics and Human Rights. Her current research interests are in ecumenical dialogue and the lessons it might provide for the conduct of political discourse in pluralistic societies. Amy has been a lover of all things technical since her first introduction to the Commodore PET when she was in grade school. [Ed. note: in other words, she's been geeky for a long time.]

Amy was the first person to join Team ProfHacker who didn't already have some sort of connection to the founders and first wave of contributors. In fact, the story of how Amy came ...

In this post, I'm happy to introduce to you one of our lively ProfHacker contributors, Billie Hara.

Billie Hara is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Arlington, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in writing, literacy, and rhetoric. For several years, Billie has been developing alternative pedagogies that aid in the teaching of writing to underprepared students. These pedagogies include using new media and service learning. As executive director of Write to Succeed, Inc., a Texas-based nonprofit literacy organization, Billie was able to bring literacy programs and practices to schools and community groups.

Billie brings to ProfHacker—and thus to all of you—a deeply-rooted desire to chase down and implement those elusive pedagogies that will enable her to reach every single one of her students in a meaningful way. Some of you might...

As Jason Jones said in yesterday's post, "Doing it Wrong", ProfHacker is not about telling anyone they're "doing it wrong" or that they should change from "old" ways to some newfangled glitzy technicolor "new" way. But since most of my days are spent embedded in development of "new" ways of interacting with cultural artifacts—texts, images, and even code itself—I figured I'd get a little meta in this space. I'm going to discuss why the heck I'd ever teach programming concepts (and code) to humanities students.

As students find themselves enmeshed in electronic information networks, it becomes necessary to investigate and interrogate how these networks and methods of information organization, storage, and retrieval permeate their lives. I stress the importance of understanding the social and cultural role of the information and systems that surround them (us) and the usefulness of...

In this, the second in our series of author introductions, I'm happy to introduce you to the other co-founder and editor of ProfHacker, Jason B. Jones.

Jason is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where he also is the president of the union chapter. Beyond that, he's the book review editor for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and the webmaster for the North American Victorian Studies Association. His research interests include Victorian literature, psychoanalysis, and the digital humanities; his book, Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature, was published by Ohio State UP in 2006.

Much like yesterday's introduction to George, pulling some lines from his bio doesn't answer the question just who is Jason B. Jones? But I must admit, many years into knowing the fellow, I still don't know him—he's shifty, hence the image used...

In the first of our series of author introductions (hello, new readers!), I'm happy to introduce you to the co-founder and editor of ProfHacker, George H. Williams.

George is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He wears many hats: teacher, scholar, volunteer, would-be hacker, indie enthusiast, nonprofit advocate, word herder, and world traveler. His research interests include eighteenth-century studies, disability studies, book history, and the digital humanities. His current research can be found at Look, Listen, Touch, a project exploring best practices in applying universal design principles to digital humanities projects.

But the co-founder of ProfHacker deserves more than a few lines pulled from his author bio. You see, although ProfHacker is less than a year old, the Teaching Carnival—another GHW project—began in September 2005. In...