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Dr. Scott Crider is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Dallas. His research interests include the English Renaissance, the rhetorical tradition (Ancient and Modern), and the history and character of liberal education. He is author of The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay, and is currently completing a book on Shakespeare’s Ethics of Rhetoric and a book on Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Dr. Steven Stryer is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Dallas. His research interests include Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, Eighteenth-century prose and poetry, and the essay. His dissertation is The Past/Present Topos in Eighteenth-Century English Literature: A Pattern of Historical Thought and its Stylistic Implications in Historiography, Poetry, and Polemic (2006).
