Stephen Carson

The OpenFiction Project, MIT OpenCourseWare

Stephen Carson is External Relations Director for MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu). His responsibilities include sustainability initiatives; strategic partnerships with other organizations; MIT OCW's support of opencourseware projects at other institutions; special projects in priority areas; and project evaluation. Stephen is also currently serving as the first president of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. Stephen has previously served in numerous other positions on the senior management and publication teams for MIT OCW. In the early stages of the program, Stephen developed a mission-critical workflow tracking database still in use; implemented a department liaison program that remains OCW's key interface with academic departments; and managed the publication of 100 of the first 500 courses to be published on the site. Prior to joining the MIT OCW team, Stephen served as Associate Director of Emerson College's Division of Continuing Education in Boston, where - in addition to managing core academic activities of the division - he developed and taught Emerson's first asynchronous, Web-based distance learning course. Stephen earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, and taught creative and expository writing there for five years.

Ryan Cordell

MLA, Association for Computers and Humanities, Council of Writing Program Administrators, Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, Poe Studies Association

Ryan Cordell is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum at St. Norbert College. He is currently working on a digital edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "The Celestial Railroad," which can be found at http://celestialrailroad.org.

Sean Pollack

Sean Pollack has worked as a technologist at campuses in California while teaching writing and literature part time. He is now on the faculty of Pomona College as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Elizabeth Ross

bi-monthly online literary journal, maintaining online writer mentoring program, literacy program support project, creating archive by topic of journal content for educational use

Elizabeth Ross is the chairman and founder of River Walk Journal, Inc. - a non-profit charitable educational organization incorporated in Pennsylvania with a full-volunteer telecommuting staff.

John V. Knapp

Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, American Psychological Association

Family Systems Therapy and Literary Criticism: article on the American hard-boiled crime fiction writer, Ross Macdonald., College Teaching of Literature -- book-length project on English professor expertise.

John V. Knapp is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.