Dr. Emily Gillo is an instructor/coordinator and Marketing Manager and Event Coordinator in the English Department at the University of Memphis., serving as the departmental Marketing Manager and Event Coordinator. Dr. Gillo teaches freshman composition and undergraduate technical communication courses online and currently serves as a member of the English Online Programs Committee and as a co-lead for UM3D’s AI Community of Practice. Her research interests focus on the intersections of digital literacy and literacy crises in writing studies, online writing instruction, and EdTech surveillance studies. She has published essays in Peitho, Computers and Composition Online, the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, and TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies.

Emily joined the DRPC Advisory Board in June 2026.

Dr. Gavin P. Johnson works as an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the Director of Composition at Texas Christian University. He is a teacher-scholar who investigates academic surveillance, antioppressive writing assessment, digital cultural rhetorics, and queer worldmaking praxis. His writing has been published in a number of venues including College English, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Studies, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Computers and Composition, Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, CDQ, Technical Communication, Pre/Text, and Literacy in Composition Studies, as well as other journals and edited collections. With Morgan C. Banville he co-edited the special cluster “Talking Back Through Rhetorical Surveillance Studies: Intersectional Feminist and Queer Approaches” for Peitho (fall 2024), which won the 2026 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship. He is a managing editor at Composition Forum and the founding section editor of Multimodal+Justice+Action at the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. Gavin is a proud first-generation college graduate from southeast Louisiana. Learn more at gavinpjohnson.com.

Gavin is a founding member DRPC Advisory Board.

Dr. Noah Wason works as an instructor of English at SUNY Cortland where he also serves as the Associate Director of Writing Programs. His research focuses on the intersections between rhetorical theory, technology, and writing pedagogies, notably the connections between ethos, surveillance, and algorithmic technologies. Noah’s work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, Technical Communication Quarterly, the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, and the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

Noah is a founding member DRPC Advisory Board.

Dr. Sarah Young researches surveillance, technology, communication, digitalization, policy, justice and ethics, especially for systems and in the workplace. She spent over 11 years as an investigator doing national security and public trust background investigations in the United States. She is currently a social impacts research fellow with the Center for Quantum Networks, drawing on surveillance studies scholarship and practices of technical communication to identify and discuss spaces of visibility and surveillance in an emerging quantum network.

Sarah joined the DRPC Advisory Board in June 2026.

Dr. Charles Woods works as Interim Department Head, Director of Writing, and an Assistant Professor of English at East Texas A&M University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Literature and Languages. Charles specializes in digital rhetorics, privacy and surveillance, and writing pedagogy and his scholarship has been published in Computers and Composition, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Peitho, and various edited collections. Charles is co-editor of The Annual Proceedings of the Computers and Writing Conference and an assistant editor for Kairos: a Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. He has been awarded the 2020 Kairos Service Award for Graduate Students, the 2022 and 2024 Kairos John Lovas Award, and the 2022 and 2024 Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award. He is the creator and host of The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Charles received his PhD in English from Illinois State University in 2021 and is a proud first-generation college graduate from rural Alabama. 

Charles is a founding member DRPC Advisory Board.