Keith Gilyard works at The Pennsylvania State University, where he is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African-American Studies and Senior Faculty Mentor in the Office of Educational Equity. His books include Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (1991) and True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy (2011).
Adam J. Banks is Professor and Faculty Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. Previous books include Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground (2006) and Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age (2011).