Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Research

Maureen Daly Goggin is professor of rhetoric in and former chair of the Department of English at Arizona State University. She is author and editor of a dozen books including Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Studies, Meditating and Mediating Change, and Women and the Material Culture of Death.

Peter N. Goggin is associate professor in rhetoric (English) and a senior scholar in the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place and Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability) and author of Professing Literacy in Composition Studies. His articles on literacy, environmental rhetoric, and writing include publication in Composition Studies, Community Literacy Journal, and Computers and Composition. He is founder and co-director of the annual Western States Rhetoric and Literacy conference, which features themes on sustainability, culture, transnationality, and place.