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Adam Blood, instructor of communication, teaches public speaking and is the director of the UWF Speech and Debate program.

Blood previously coached speech and debate teams at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and University of Central Missouri. Blood has focused his research on ideographs, virtue discourse, loyalty rhetoric, the rhetoric of religion, and demagoguery.

In addition to his research interests, Blood has taught multiple communication courses with concentration in areas including rhetoric, media and basic and professional communication.

Almjeld's research centers on digital rhetorics, identity performances, feminist methodologies and community engagement. Her recent work considers ways that gendered identities and digital spaces intersect to encourage certain identities and empower and limit identity performances. Almjeld is particularly interested in girlhood identities in regard to girls as technology users and girls as leaders. For several years she has lead girls' technology and leadership summer camps and afterschool programs and is currently researching the language of leadership related to girls and girlhood. Almjeld also participates in and researches community engagement partnerships in higher education. She is currently working with a team of researchers to study the barriers university faculty face when working with community partners and strategies for overcoming those obstacles. 

With a background in sciences studies and popular culture, Klein’s scholarship and teaching focuses on the configuration and cultural representation of science and technology, science fiction literature and film, and the use of narrative in medical and health-related settings. Klein serves as the coordinator of the cross-disciplinary medical humanities minor, which provides students with a humanistic and social study of illness, health and the body.
He received a doctorate in science and technology studies from Virginia Tech; a master's in technical communication from Rensselaer; and a bachelor's in biology from the University of Arizona.

Parrish is an associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and technical communication at James Madison University. His research interests include the rhetoric of science, environmental communication, animal studies, nature writing, and the history of rhetoric. Parrish is the author of Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion, and co-editor, with Kristian Bjørkdahl, of Rhetorical Animals: Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion. He has published articles in a variety of journals, including Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Literature Compass, Rhetoric Review, POROI, and The Evolutionary Review. He is currently finishing a monograph, on the subjects of animals, persuasion, and the senses, which is under contract with the University of Chicago Press for publication in their "Animal Lives" series.