Gary A. Olson is a noted scholar of rhetoric and culture and a keen observer of higher education in America. He has served as a both a university provost and a dean. Olson writes a popular monthly column on academic administration for the Chronicle of Higher Education and currently is a professor of English at Idaho State University.
Lynn Worsham is a professor of English at Idaho State University and editor of JAC, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture. She has published seven books, including The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination and Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial (both with Gary Olson). She is currently working on a book on psychopathology in America.
