**About the Editors**

**Craig A. Meyer**, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English. He earned two master's degrees at Missouri State University, one in creative nonfiction and one in rhetoric and composition. He later earned his PhD in English at Ohio University with a specialty in rhetoric and composition. His research focuses on rhetoric; first-year, academic and creative writing; disability studies; popular culture; and social justice. He has published works in diverse areas such as ethos, creative writing, disability, Hip Hop, *Star Trek*, disability, corruption in higher education, and local histories. As a teacher/scholar, he focuses on how students can incorporate rhetorical principles into their daily lives so they can better understand and actively respond to our world.

**James S. Baumlin** A graduate of Georgetown (BA) and Brown University (PhD), James S. Baumlin is a Distinguished Professor of English at Missouri State University, where he teaches Renaissance literature, the history of rhetoric, and rhetorical and critical theory. His published books include *Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature*, and *John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse*. His co-edited collections include *Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory*; *Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis*; and *Selected Essays of Jim W. Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing*. Before Missouri State, Baumlin taught at Texas Christian University, where he met Jim Corder, his mentor in ethos. Baumlin ascribes his own career-long commitments to rhetoric, creative nonfiction, and scholarship of the personal to Corder. Corder's influence can be seen within this current volume.
