Arabella Lyon has published recent essays on comparative rhetoric, human rights, and Chinese communication. Her book Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored won the Ross Winterowd Award for the Outstanding Book in Rhetoric and Composition. Currently she is completing a manuscript entitled Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rights, and Rhetoric.

Lester C. Olson's books include Emblems of American Community in the Revolutionary Era (1991), Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community (2004), and, with co-editors Cara A. Finnegan and Diane S. Hope, Visual Rhetoric (2007). His essays concerning Audre Lorde's advocacy appear in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy & Rhetoric, American Voices, Queering Public Address, and The Responsibilities of Rhetoric.