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• Dr. William P Banks is professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication at East Carolina University. In addition to directing the University Writing Program and the Tar River Writing Project, Will teaches courses in writing, research, pedagogy, as well as LGBTQ and young adult literatures. His essays on digital rhetorics, queer rhetorics, writing assessment, pedagogy, and writing program administration have appeared in several recent books, as well as in College Composition &; Communication, College English, and Computers &; Composition. He has edited five recent collections of scholarship, including English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities (2021) and Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects (2019). His co-authored monograph Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment is currently forthcoming at Utah State UP.