About the Author

Melissa Ames is director of English Education and professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Illinois University. She is the author of Small Screen, Big Feels: Television and Cultural Anxiety in the Twenty-First Century and How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life, among others, and was the 2018 recipient of Eastern Illinois University's Luis Clay Mendez Outstanding Service Award.

Kristi McDuffie is director of Rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is editor, producer, and composer of I Write: A Writing Guide for the Undergraduate Rhetoric Program at the University of Illinois and the recipient of the 2021 University of Illinois Chancellor's Academic Professional Award.