Meet your conference committee!

Tari spent about ten years as a college writing teacher, including several years teaching in and managing a computer writing lab, classroom, and network--a fun job that didn't pay the rent. So she became a human factors engineer for The MITRE Corporation, doing research in human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. Recently, she moved on to Akamai Technologies, where she works in the Information Technology department, doing technical writing. In addition, she continues to consult for The MITRE Corporation's Collaborative Virtual Workspace project.

Tari is a co-founder and co-coordinator of the Netoric Project, and runs the educational MOO Connections. She lives near Boston with her husband, Jay Carlson, His Royal Highness Van the Cat, a ridiculous number of computers, and a collection of Teletubbies toys. In her off hours, if you can't find her on a MOO somewhere, she might be skating on one of the local bike paths.

James is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Collaborative Learning and Communication at Furman University, a liberal arts university in South Carolina's "upstate" region. James's academic projects include Taking Flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work, a collection co-edited with Donna N. Sewell and published in January 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, and humanities.team@edu: Exploring Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities, a collection co-edited with Cheryl Reed and Peter Sands and now under consideration by the Modern Language Association. With Douglas Eyman, James serves as Co-Editor and Co-Publisher of Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments, and, with Tari Fanderclai, Greg Siering, and Cindy Wambeam, he serves as Co-Coordinator of the Netoric Project.

When he is not telling friends how much warmer South Carolina is than Michigan, where he attended graduate school, James is usually telling strangers how much warmer South Carolina is than Michigan. He also enjoys movies and believes he may be part owner by now of amazon.com.

Bradley is a graduate student who dreams of a world where all software is free, where browsers never crash, where Peter Ramus answers our questions, and where the Perl interpeter is kinder and gentler on Fridays and holidays.

He works with instructors and students in the Networked Writing Environment (NWE) at the University of Florida, administering the MOO, maintaining documentation, and advising faculty and staff who are teaching and conducting research in the NWE.

His PhD work, directed by Greg Ulmer, revolves around the history of writing (grammatology) and the integration of networked computing into orality, literacy, and beyond.

Bradley lives with his wife Erin and two orange cats in a cozy yellow house in Gainesville.

Cindy offers this photo as evidence that before she returned to grad school, she was a kicked-back and relaxed person.

Cindy is finishing up her doctoral degree in Rhetoric & Professional Communication at New Mexico State University, where her work has focused on technology and culture, gender studies, and Internet communication. In her spare time, she is the Webspinner for the NMSU Women's Studies Program and a few other collegiate and non-profit organizations. Currently, she is probably sitting in front of her computer, writing part of her dissertation ("Participatory Audience and Hypertext: Emerging Authors and Their Fan Fiction"). If she's not typing, she's feeling guilty and telling someone that she should be working right now (waitress, dentist, husband, mom -- they all get an earful).

Cindy is excited to be moving to Pullman, Washington this summer. She has accepted a position as a Technical Communication professor in the English Department at Washington State University, and will begin her new role as junior faculty member in the Fall of 2000.