Michael J. Cripps, editor for Dialogues@RU, is the Coordinator for Research in The Disciplines and an Assistant Director in the Writing Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University. His research interests involve the politics of institutional and organizational change, the future of the academic essay in a hypertext environment, and the centrality of composition for student success in college. He has taught at Rutgers University since 1993.

Ann Jurecic, associate editor for Dialogues@RU, is the Coordinator for College Writing and Research, Transfer Coordinator, and an Assistant Director in the Writing Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She also leads the New Jersey Writing Alliance, an organization that brings together faculty from Rutgers and both county and community colleges across the state. She received her Ph.D. in English from Princeton, and taught at Princeton and Raritan Valley Community College before coming to Rutgers in 2000.

Anthony Lioi, associate editor for Dialogues@RU, is the Coordinator for the Livingston Writing Center and an Assistant Director in the Writing Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is currently completing his dissertation, entitled "The Nature of Enchantment: Cosmological Crisis and the American Essay, 1945-2000," in the Department of Literatures in English. In addition to his work in Composition Studies, he is interested in the literature of science, theology and literature, nature writing, and Italian American Studies.