Individual Contributors

About

Dr. Kells is an Associate Professor in the Rhetoric and Writing program of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a founder of the National Consortium on Environmental Rhetoric and Writing.

Michelle Hall Kells CV

Erin Gallegos is the Secretary of the NCERW. She earned her MA in Rhetoric and Writing from the UNM Department of English in 2011. Since graduating, she has served in the Peace Corps in Thailand, and now works in the Netherlands as an Internal Communications Specialist. Erin is also behind Write Kairos, which offers tailored communications coaching solutions.

Dr. Gilbertz is a Professor of Geography at Montana State University Billings, in Billings, Montana. She serves as the Northwest Regional Director of the National Consortium on Environmental Rhetoric and Writing. She is beginning her 14th year (2016/7) as the primary coordinator off the Environmental Studies Program at Montana State University Billings. Her background includes a Masters in Conflict Communication and a Ph. D. in Cultural Geography. Dr. Gilbertz's research focuses on how individuals and communities share resources and how a sense of place inform environmental values.

Susan Gilbertz CV

Dr. Bender is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition. He teaches Environmental Rhetoric in the Professional and Public Writing Minor at Roger Williams University. He also serves on the curriculum committee for Sustainability Studies.

Dr. Formisano (PhD, University of New Mexico, 2012) is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Writing at the University of South Dakota. His research and teaching addresses water issues in Western American literature and other media. He is currently working on a manuscript, Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Explorations of the Colorado River (U of Nevada P) and a co-edited collection on the literature of dams.

Dr. McEvoy is an Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences-Geography at Montana State University, Billings. Dr McEvoy is a human-environment geographer with three streams of research interests: 1) using a political ecology approach to investigate the social, political, and economic drivers of water management and environmental change 2) assessing climate change vulnerability, identifying equitable adaptation options, and fostering adaptive capacity, and 3) using a science and technology studies (STS) approach to understand technological change and risk in socioecological systems

Dr. Matthew Anderson is an Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology at Eastern Washington University. He teaches introductory courses in human geography and upper-division seminars in urban studies, political geography, and natural resource management. His research interests are focused on the political economy of the North American city, the politics of water provision in the American northwest, and critical social and spatial theory.

Dr. Ward is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Management & Policy at Rocky Mountain College & Yellowstone River Research Center. Montana-based, he is interested in environmental governance, integrated (water) resource management, livelihoods, poverty alleviation, mixed methods, GIS & remote sensing, service learning, and undergraduate research.

Noel Thistle Tague has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and is a PhD Candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Pittsburgh. In her time at Pitt, she has taught first-year composition, digital media, and public and professional writing courses. Her dissertation, "The Winds," investigates the role of public memory, exploitative rhetorics, and performances of protest in ongoing debates about industrial wind development in rural communities in northern New York State. She is especially interested in interdisciplinary, place-based research methods as they might be enacted in studies and pedagogies in the environmental humanities.

Tema Milstein, co-editor of Routledge’s 2017 book Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice, specializes in the intersections of culture, discourse, and ecological relations. Milstein is her university’s Presidential Teaching Fellow and author of “Greening Communication” in Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy through the Liberal Arts.

Kelli Lyckë is a teaching assistant at the University of New Mexico, who did not take the conventional path through academia. Her identity as an out-spoken, openly-gay female did not emulsify with rural Missouri values. As a result, she dropped out of high school, unable to conform to the cultural formalities and rigidly structured curriculum of small-town education.

She earned her Associates in Arts—Teaching from Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri. Then, she transferred to Park University to double major in Literature and Education. In her undergraduate program, Kelli published her first article in Insight: Journal of Scholarly Teaching, earning the Mary Barlow Writing Award for her research on Julia Alvarez. After teaching high school English for two years, Kelli quit her job to travel South America and Eastern Europe. This inspired her vision to open a literacy center for refugees and victims of oppression and war in developing nations.

Today, her writings focus on how minority authors use their stories to share their experiences with white, English-speaking audiences--how they use rhetoric to be heard.