Jim Henry teaches a variety of courses from First-Year Compostion to graduate courses in Teaching Composition, Technical Writing, and Auto-ethnographic Research. His current research projects include mentoring in first year composition and performance appraisals in workplace settings. His award-winning book Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing emerged from seven years of collaborative research with MA students in Professional Writing and Editing in which participants wrote autoethnographies of workplace cultures.

Holly Bruland is working toward a Ph.D. in English with a focus in Composition and Rhetoric. In addition to her administrative work in the Writing Mentors Program, she has taught courses in First-Year Composition and the Rhetorical Analysis of Political Speeches. Her research interests include mentoring in first-year composition, place-based pedagogies, and the rhetoric of social networking sites. She looks forward to presenting research on the Writing Mentors Program at the 2009 CCCC’s conference.