Gilbert H. Muller is professor emeritus of English at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, where he received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature; Vassar College; and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Grotesque; Chester Himes; New Strangers in Paradise: The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction; William Cullen Bryant: Author of America; and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He has written and edited best-selling textbooks in English and composition, including McGraw-Hill’s The Short Prose Reader, with Harvey Wiener, now in its twelfth edition, and The McGraw-Hill Reader, now in its twelfth edition. Among Dr. Muller’s awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the Ford Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.
Melissa E. Whiting is a retired professor of English and Rhetoric at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith, where she also served as department head. She has also taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Oklahoma, where she received a Ph.D. in English Education. Dr. Whiting was an English teacher at Vinita High School in Vinita, Oklahoma, where she taught Advanced Placement Language and Composition. She also serves as a reader and table leader at the AP Language and Composition scoring. Dr. Whiting is the co-author of How English Teachers Get Taught and other pedagogical studies. Her publications have appeared in the English Journal, Teaching Writing Teachers, The International Journal of Learning, Research in Rural Education, The Oklahoma English Journal, and The Tennessee English Journal. She wrote the Advanced Placement Instructor’s Manual that accompanies the eighth edition of the Prentice-Hall Reader (Ed. G. Miller). She continues to be involved with AP workshops and task forces, served as a senior reviewer for the AP textbook audit, and has contributed textbook reviews to AP Central. She continues to serve as a scorer for the edTPA, SAT, and various state writing tests. She continues to conduct high school writing workshops, focusing on AP Language and Composition in the four-state area of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas.
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Stephanie Ferree Hyatt teaches AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition at Lee High School in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2012, Hyatt was named teacher of the year for both Lee High School and Huntsville City Schools. Hyatt is actively involved with the A+ College Ready Initiative and the National Math and Science Institute, for whom she teaches AP exam prep sessions for students and curriculum workshops for teachers. Hyatt has served on the teacher engagement committee of the Council of Chief State School Officers and serves on the teacher cabinet for the Alabama State Department of Education. Hyatt holds a master’s degree in English from the University of Alabama Huntsville, an Educational Specialist Degree in Teaching and Learning from Liberty University, and is currently writing her doctoral dissertation for an Educational Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction. “I owe a debt of gratitude to the countless teachers who have posted their brilliant lesson plans online and to the many professional development workshop leaders who have influenced my teaching over the years.”
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