Theresa Donofrio is the Esther and Robert Armstrong Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Coe College, where she teaches media studies and public discourse courses. She has participated in multiple teaching initiatives designed to promote civic engagement, including serving as one of the 2016-2017 Iowa Campus Compact Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellows. In 2017, her work in the classroom was recognized with the Iowa Communication Association Outstanding New Teacher Award. Her research primarily examines rhetorics surrounding atrocities and has appeared in the Western Journal of Communication and Women’s Studies in Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Maryland. Prior to her graduate work, she worked for the Office of Survivor Affairs and Speakers Bureau at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Teresa Mangum
Teresa Mangum is Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and English and Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa. Her research addresses the ways 19th-century British novels shaped readers’ understanding of women, late life, and connections among species as well as publicly engaged methods and pedagogy. She is co-P.I. on the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry: A Grinnell College/University of Iowa Partnership, co-editor with historian Anne Valk of a University of Iowa Press book series, The Humanities and Public Life, co-founder of the Obermann Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy, founding member of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship,Secretary of the National Humanities Alliance Board of Directors, and a board member of Imagining America.