Brent Lucia teaches business writing and communication courses for the School of Business at UConn. In the past he’s taught both literature and composition courses for The City University of New York and William Paterson University. Brent is also Chair of the Advisory Board for the International Rhetoric Workshop and a past member of its Organization Committee. He graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2018 with a Ph.D in Composition and Applied Linguistics. His current research explores the rhetorics of technology and its relationship to spatial operations and user experiences.

Zachary Suetta is an Assistant Professor in-Residence at the University of Connecticut School of Business. His ongoing project examines the external and internal dynamics of anger at play within the works of subaltern writers of the Romantic era, arguing that these marginalized individuals view the passion as essential in understanding the nature of subjectivity and the self but often struggle in its artistic execution because of societal expectations and the volatile nature of the passion itself.

Maria Vint teaches Effective Business Writing for the School of Business at UConn. Previously, she taught advanced business English to international pre-graduate students in Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, as well as rhetoric and argumentation, technical writing for engineers, writing for the social sciences, advanced research methodology, first-year composition, literature/history hybrid courses, and sociolinguistics, throughout the City University of New York. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Composition and Applied Linguistics program of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, as well as an executive board member of the Two-Year College English Association, for the northeast region. Her research interests include writer and communicator identities, as well as writing anxiety.