Christian Z. Goering, Ph.D. (2007), Kansas State University, is Associate Professor of English Education at the University of Arkansas. He has published widely in the field of education, highlighted by The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project: Culture, Place, and Authenticity (co-author) and Recontextualized: A Framework for Teaching English with Music.

Professor of Education at Furman University since 2002, Dr. P. L. Thomas taught English for 18 years in rural South Carolina. He holds a B.A. in Secondary Education (1983), M. Ed. in Secondary Education (1985), and Ed. D. in Curriculum and Instruction (1998), all from the University of South Carolina.