Editorial Board Members

OLOR Journal Editor Jason Snart, College of DuPage
Jason Snart is  Professor of English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.  He teaches composition, creative writing, and literature courses in a variety of modes, including online, hybrid, and face-to-face.  His research and publishing focuses primarily on hybrid teaching, learning, and development.  His most recent book, Making Hybrids Work: An Institutional Framework for Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education, was published in 2016 by NCTE.

Michael Madson, University of South Carolina
Michael Madson is an assistant professor in the Writing Center and Center for Academic Excellence at the Medical University of South Carolina. His areas of expertise are online teaching, technical and scientific communication, and second language literacies. 

Emily Nye
Emily Nye has directed traditional on ground writing centers, as well as online centers at four institutions. Her research explores the effects of online writing and other academic support on student learning.  She also conducts research on the design of online resources and usability. Her work has evolved from writing center administration to faculty development.  In 2016 she helped design and direct the Faculty Development Office at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

Trent M. Kays, Hampton University 
Trent M. Kays is an Assistant Professor of English at Hampton University, where he teaches courses in first-year writing, professional writing, new media, and digital rhetoric. His research is focused on the intersections of digital rhetoric, critical pedagogy, authority, and the Internet.

George H. Jensen
George H. Jensen is a Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and has been teaching writing online since 2005. His books include Some of the Words Are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family(2009), Identities Across Texts (2002), Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis (2000), and Personality and the Teaching of Composition (with John K. DiTiberio, 1989). He is in the process of publishing a serial novel online at homoacademicus.com.

Heidi Skurat Harris
Dr. Heidi Skurat Harris is currently an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Online Writing Instruction. She earned her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, specializing in computer-mediated instruction, from Ball State University (BSU). Harris earned an MA in Creative Writing (Ball State), an MA in Writing (Rhetoric and Composition) from Missouri State University (MSU), and a BA in English from College of the Ozarks. She served on Conference on College Composition and Communication's Committee for Effective Practices in Online Writing Instruction (2013-2016). Harris currently teaches technical writing, creative nonfiction, and rhetorical theory at UALR. Her publications focus primarily on research and theory related to online writing instruction.

Kirk St. Amant
Kirk St.Amant is a Professor and the Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University (USA), and he is also an Adjunct Professor of International Health and Medical Communication with the University of Limerick (Ireland). His main research interests are international communication and information design for global audiences with a particular focus on the globalization of online education and health and medical communication for international audiences.  He has taught online and hybrid courses for universities in Belize, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Ukraine, and the United States.