Meet The Team
Cat Mahaffey
Cat Mahaffey is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies (WRDS) at UNC Charlotte. She teaches first-year writing and courses such as Digital Design Theory and Practice and Information Literacy. Her research interests include AI, online privacy, accessibility, digital rhetoric, and technical and professional writing. Her latest book is titled ACCESS: Accessible Course Construction for Every Student’s Success (2025). She has also published in other books and journals, including chapters in Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing (2019); Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments (2019); and PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors (2020).
Jamie Henthorn
Jamie is an Associate Professor of English at Catawba College, where she also serves as the writing center director and writing program administrator. She teaches a number of courses, including First Year Writing, Technical & Professional Writing, Digital Writing, World Literature, as well as Anime, Manga, and Manwha. Her research interests are in play pedagogy, teaching with technology, game studies, and digital culture. Her work has been featured in Television & New Media, Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, and The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching. In addition to a co-edited collection on Pokemon Go, she has book chapters games such as Bioshock, Zombies, Run! and Horizon Zero Dawn.
She has hoped to one day host Computers & Writing since her first time attending the conference at Frostburg State University in 2013.
Kendyl Harmeling
Kendyl Harmeling is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies here at UNC Charlotte. Her teaching ranges from First-Year Writing and Introductions to Digital Studies to upper division courses on Digital Studies, Community Literacy, and, increasingly on the convergence of these areas in online writing spaces like social media.
Her research centers community literacy practices and coalition creation on and around college campuses. She explores these areas across campus communities and projects, as with student organizations in her recently published dissertation “Coalitional Belonging as Praxis: First-Year Writing and Student Community Creation in the Post-DEI University;” or with writing center consultants, as in her article publications with Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. Outside of her scholarly publications, her creative writing can be found in Liminal Spaces, Miracle Monocle, Untenured, The Blood Pudding, and Black and White: A Journal for the Arts.