Trigger Warnings

An interdisciplinary collection to deepen our understandings of trigger warnings in a social justice context

Ian Barnard (they/them/their) is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Chapman University, and the author of three monographs, including Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions (U of Alabama P, 2020), winner of the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship.
Ryan Ashley Caldwell (they/them) is an Associate Sociology Professor at Soka University of America. They teach and research about gender, sexuality, and power across multiple cultural contexts--from Abu Ghraib to drag performance and queer archives. Dr. Caldwell gives their time and talents to The Los Angeles House of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (an international LGBTQIA2-S+ nonprofit) as Sister Electra-Complex, as a Board member, and their archivist.
Jada Patchigondla is a lecturer in Writing Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches a wide range of writing courses including first-year writing, business communication, and graduate composition pedagogy.
Aneil Rallin is a recovering academic who has survived working at nine universities in the US and Canada (including Soka University of America, York University, California State University, San Marcos, and University of Southern California) and author of Dreads and Open Mouths: Living/Teaching/Writing Queerly.
Morgan Read-Davidson is Associate Professor at Chapman University, where he directs the Rhetoric and Composition program. He teaches both rhetoric and creative writing, with a focus in composition pedagogy, posthuman rhetorics, ludonarratology and game writing, screenwriting, and fiction.
Ethan Trejo is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California, working towards a PhD in English with a graduate certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. His teaching and research interests lie in Latinx Studies and Queer Studies.
Kristi M. Wilson is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Affiliate in the Humanities at Soka University of America. She is also the Film and Media section co-editor and editorial collective member at the journal Latin American Perspectives (SAGE Publications).