Ken Bugajski, University of Saint Francis
kbugajski@sf.edu

Ken A. Bugajski is Professor of English, Director of the John Duns Scotus Honors Program, and Division Director for Humanities at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His research interests rest primarily in the nineteenth century, autobiography, and—currently—the diaries of Virginia Woolf. He has taught British literature courses covering texts from Beowulf to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as well as courses in literature and film, young adult literature, and date-night novels. Ken first attended the CEA Conference in 2008 and has missed only one since then, presenting on topics from Victorian ghost stories to using Twitter in teaching. He has been a Special Topics Chair since 2018 and was the Program Chair for the 2022 Annual Conference in Birmingham. In the summer, he can often be found watching the TinCaps, Fort Wayne’s minor league baseball team, and daydreaming about Disney World.

Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College
lsimpson@presby.edu

Lynne M. Simpson, Ph.D., Professor of English, has taught British literature at Presbyterian College in South Carolina since 1996.  Her work on grief and mourning has appeared in journals including Shakespeare Studies, a special issue of The Humanities Review on death in the Renaissance, and as a chapter, “Beyond ‘Mourning and Melancholia’,” in the book The Power of Death: Perceptions of Death in the Western World.  She joined CEA in 2007, starting off by presenting a paper and working the registration desk. For more than a decade, she served on the Women’s Connection Committee and as the Special Topics Chair for the medieval and Renaissance sessions. She oversaw a constitutional review, assisted with the nominating committees, served as a liaison to SAMLA, and was elected to the Board of Directors from 2011-2014. As Program Chair, she organized a 510-person conference on Hilton Head Island in March of 2017, which featured 495 presentations across 144 panels. Lynne has served as an officer of CEA for the past eight years, most recently as Associate Director and Treasurer.

Jeraldine Kraver, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Jeraldine.Kraver@unco.edu

Jeri has been a member of the CEA since 1996. She was encouraged to attend her first conference by John Shawcross, a member of CEA for goodness knows how long and president from 1993-1994. Since that first conference in New Orleans, she has attended all but one of our annual confabs. In 2012, she was named Executive Editor of The CEA Critic. In 2018, the journal published a special double-issue commemorating 80 years of the CEA and The CEA Critic. As a result of that archival work, she assumed the mantel of CEA Historian when Joe Pestino stepped down. At present, Jeri is the CEA’s Associate Director and Treasurer.

Stacy Bailey, University of Northern Colorado
Stacy.Bailey@unco.edu

Stacy Bailey is an Assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado, a teacher with more than eighteen years of experience spanning from middle school to graduate school. Stacy uses this experience and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology to improve the educational experience for students at all levels.

Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern Indiana
hoeness@usi.edu

Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, has over 30 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level, including courses on major authors such as Amy Tan, E.L. Doctorow, and Margaret Atwood. Her research interests include modern American and Canadian fiction, women’s literature, and graphic narratives. She has recently published on John Lewis’s graphic memoir March, Maxine Hong-Kingston’s Warrior Woman, and on the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. She co-edited Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative, a collection of essays that draws on performance studies.

Lee Anna Maynard, Augusta University
lamaynard@augusta.edu

Lee Anna Maynard is an Associate Professor in the Department of English & World Languages at Augusta University. Her Ph.D. is in English Language and Literature from the University of South Carolina.

Peter Kratzke, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Peter.Kratzke@colorado.edu

With a long-ago doctorate in American literature (but, really, as a generalist) from the University of Kentucky as his starting point, Pete has had a career of teaching at a variety of schools, including Marian College (Wisconsin), Texas A&M International University (Laredo), Michigan State University, the University of Texas/San Antonio, and the University of Colorado/Boulder. The CEA has been a thread through his journey, the organization’s conferences giving him the opportunity to explore topics in both literature and rhetoric/composition. Now as an editor, Pete hopes to create a similar opportunity for others.

Jamie McDaniel, Radford University
jmcdaniel30@radford.edu

Jamie serves as Associate Professor of English at Radford University and Editor of The CEA Forum, our online, peer-reviewed journal devoted to pedagogy. Jamie teaches a range of classes, including game studies and design, professional writing, film studies, and British literature. His current book project focuses on adapting disability from page to screen. He is the recipient of the CEA Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award and the CEA Joe D. Thomas Distinguished Service Award. Read more about Jamie here: http://jamiemcdaniel.net/

Linda DiDesidero
linda.didesidero@gmail.com

Dr. Linda Di Desidero serves as the National Coordinator of Affiliate Organizations for CEA. She currently teaches professional writing at World Bank Group Headquarters in Washington, DC, at the University of Maryland Global Campus, and at the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany. She is the former Director of the Leadership Communication Skills Center at Marine Corps University at Quantico (one of the DOD universities). Dr. Di Desidero holds a PhD in Linguistics (Northwestern University), an EdM in English Education (Rutgers University), and BA degrees in English and in German language and literature (Rutgers University).  

Bremen Vance, Mercer University
vance_br@mercer.edu

Bremen Vance is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technical Communication at Mercer University. Bremen first attended CEA in 2016. Bremen teaches classes involving the relationship between technology and communication including web design, multimedia, and content strategy.