Dawn Duncan is Professor of English at Concordia College-Moorhead, MN, where she also teaches in the interdisciplinary Global Studies and Film Studies programs. She is both a scholar and theatre artist. Her latest book is Irish Myth, Lore, and Legend on Film (Peter Lang, 2013). She is also the author of Service-Learning Companion (Houghton-Mifflin, 2008) and Postcolonial Theory in Irish Drama, 1800-2000 (Mellen, 2003). Additionally, she has published many essays in her primary areas of Irish Studies, Postcolonial Theory, and Pedagogical Practice. She has served on the Executive of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures since 2000, first as US representative, and since 2003 as Executive Secretary.  

Austin Gerth is a member of Concordia College's class of 2016. He edits the Opinion section of Concordia's newspaper, The Concordian. He has worked variously as a pizza cook, night-time dishwasher, caterer and water park attendant. He is completing majors in writing and philosophy, having determined through his experiences in the working world that he is ill-suited to manual labor. He also blogs for The COBBlog, writes music journalism for Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and may soon write about comedy for Illegitimate Theatre.

Liz Pilon is what she likes to call a "junior and a half" at Concordia College, as she plans on graduating in December 2016 with a major in English Education. When she's not working on summer research at Concordia, she is a camp counselor in Park River, ND. In addition to her research in the Digital Humanities, she works as a writing tutor at Concordia College's Academic Enhancement and Writing Center. 

Dr. Erika Claire Strandjord:
Erika Claire Strandjord is an assistant professor of English at Concordia College. Her teaching interests include technical writing, business writing, first-year composition, and women and gender studies.  Her research focuses on the creation and maintenance of identity in communities through persuasive education.  An interest in the digital humanities influences both her pedagogy and scholarship.