Scott Lloyd Dewitt (he/him/his) is Associate Professor of English in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy program at The Ohio State University where he conducts writing studies research in digital media, writing analytics, teaching writing at scale, and the study of public communication to imagine new methods for teaching college writing. An OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award recipient for his pioneering teaching approaches with technology, DeWitt has served as the director of The Digital Media Project, the English Department’s digital media production and teaching studio. Professor DeWitt is the author of Writing Inventions: Identities, Technologies, Pedagogies (SUNY, 2002), which offers instructional stories, histories, and classroom applications and connects the theoretical aspirations of the field with the craft of innovative computer-enhanced composition instruction.  Writing Inventions was awarded the “Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award” in 2003.  He is the editor of a scholarly collection of curated exhibits (with H. Louis Ulman and Cynthia Selfe), Stories That Speak To Us:  Exhibits from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013).  He is currently working on a large-data project that examines a corpus of 5000+ pieces of student writing collected when he was the director of Ohio State’s First-Year Writing Program.  With colleagues at Ohio State, he was the co-recipient of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant supporting the development of a general education writing MOOC and the co-developer of WEx, The Writers Exchange, a peer-review platform for student writers.  He is currently working on a text analytics project studying public writing about Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, for HIV prevention with researchers at The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center and One Community Health in Sacramento, CA. 

Natalie Kopp (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in the Ohio State English department, specializing in community writing, literacy, and narrative studies. Having participated in DMAC 2020 and worked as a Graduate Consultant in 2021, she is excited be Co-Associate Director of DMAC this year. Natalie has taught an undergraduate digital media composition course on Digital Storytelling the last two semesters at OSU and loves using digital media as mode through which to approach creative and professional writing with her students. Natalie’s own research deals with the development of open access community creative writing programs and the ways community practitioners can draw on critical pedagogies to create more collaborative, empowering, and informed writing spaces. 

Jordan P. Woodward (she/her/hers) is a PhD Student in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at Ohio State. She is a Co-Associate Director for DMAC 2022 and was a participant during DMAC 2020. Jordan’s research focuses how relationships are rhetorically built, sustained, and/or strained between people, identity, and place. She seeks to understand how diverse stakeholders communicate and negotiate place-based interests through vernacular and credentialed expertise. Jordan is also interested in coalition-building practices around place-based and environmental issues.

Morgan D. Beers (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy at Ohio State. She attended DMAC in 2021 and is joining the DMAC staff this year as an Instructional Technology Consultant. Morgan’s research areas include digital rhetoric, computers and writing, social media studies, and technical communication. Her current research deals with the circulation and rhetorical construction of COVID-19 misinformation on social media. Morgan also currently serves as the treasurer of Ohio State’s English Graduate Organization and will be teaching Digital Media Composition in Fall 2022.