Gesa E. KirschGesa E. Kirsch is Associate Executive Director of the National Council of Teachers of English and Visiting Associate Professor of English and Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Women Writin the Academy and coeditor of Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy (with Peter Mortensen); Methods and Methodology in Composition Research (with Patricia A. Sullivan); and A Sense of Audience in Written Communication (with Duane Roen). Read More Read Less