Bert Emerson is founder and co-director of the Democracy Lab at Whitworth University. He is an Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the George Whitworth Honors Program. His scholarship and teaching focus on early and 19th century American Literature. He is the author of American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures (UNC Press, 2024) and co-editor, with Gregory Laski, of Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today (Oxford UP, 2023).
Bert Emerson is founder and co-director of the Democracy Lab at Whitworth University. He is an Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the George Whitworth Honors Program. His scholarship and teaching focus on early and 19th century American Literature. He is the author of American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures (UNC Press, 2024) and co-editor, with Gregory Laski, of Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today (Oxford UP, 2023).
Jess Clements is co-director of the Democracy Lab at Whitworth University. She is professor of English and director of the university’s writing center, the Whitworth Composition Commons. Her scholarship and teaching focus on ethos the role of human and object-oriented actors in contemporary multimodal communication. She is the co-author, with Kari Nixon of Optimal Motherhood and Other Lies Facebook Told Us (MIT Press, 2022) and has written award-winning articles on tutor training topics such as “The Role of New Media Expertise in Shaping Writing Consultations” (WLN, 2019).
Grace Hansen is a student researcher for the Democracy Lab at Whitworth University. She is pursuing a Political Science major with a Law and Justice Minor. Grace seeks to develop insights and actions to continue to build Whitworth’s relationship with its Indigenous neighbors. On campus she also works for the Whitworth Composition Commons and competes for the Whitworth Women’s Soccer team.
Christina Rabe is a junior at Whitworth majoring in Political Science and minoring in English. She is a student researcher for the Democracy Lab at Whitworth and a writing consultant for Whitworth’s Composition Commons (WCC). She has written several news and sports articles in The Whitworthian, the university’s student newspaper, and received the Political Science Department Writing Award for her paper of federalism and poverty.
Christina Rabe is a junior at Whitworth majoring in Political Science and minoring in English. She is a student researcher for the Democracy Lab at Whitworth and a writing consultant for Whitworth’s Composition Commons (WCC). She has written several news and sports articles in The Whitworthian, the university’s student newspaper, and received the Political Science Department Writing Award for her paper of federalism and poverty.
Sam Wisenor is a student researcher in the Democracy Lab at Whitworth University. A sophomore pursuing a major in English and a minor in Editing and Publishing, Sam is invested in creating an environment where students can engage in political discussion despite polarization. He also works as a copy editor for the Whitworthian and as a consultant in Compostion Commons.
