We are pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the 2008 conference:

Dr. Bruce McComiskey, an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama, specializes in rhetoric and composition, classical rhetoric, and professional writing. His publications include Teaching Composition as a Social Process and Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. For more information, please visit Dr. McComiskey's homepage: http://www.uab.edu/english/faculty/vitae/mccomiskey.html

Dr. Lisa Surridge, an associate professor of English at the University of Victoria, specializes in Victorian studies with a particular emphasis on the relation between gender studies and the Victorian novel. Her publications include Bleak Houses: Marital Violence and Victorian Fiction. For more information, please visit Dr. Surridge's homepage: http://web.uvic.ca/~lsurridg/