Meet The Team
Josh Barrows
Josh Barrows is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching English program at the University of Arizona. Originally from Helena, Montana, he obtained BAs from Augustana University in English Literature and Religion and MAs in English Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and Sports Administration and Leadership at Augustana University. He has experience teaching in three university settings and has taught First Year Writing, Professional Business Writing, and Composition I & II both in person and online. His research interests center around Writing Program Administration with emphasis on higher education administration as well as educational technology.
Shelley Rodrigo
Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo is the Senior Director of the Writing Program; Professor in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) program; in the Department of English; and Affiliate Faculty with the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona. She researches how “newer” technologies better facilitate communicative interactions, specifically teaching and learning. Shelley recently co-authored the award-winning Teaching Literacy Online and the fourth co-authored edition of The Wadsworth/Cengage Guide to Research. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals such as College Composition and Communication, Journal of Writing Assessment, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, Teaching English in the Two-Year College¸ as well as various edited collections. In 2021 she was elected Vice President of the National Council of Teachers of English (a 4-year term including President in 2024) and was awarded the Arizona Technology in Education Association’s Ruth Catalano Friend of Technology Innovation Award.
Mariya Tseptsura
Mariya Tseptsura is the director of the Online Writing Program at the University of Arizona. Her research interests often bring together writing program administration, online writing instruction, and second language writing. She has been teaching writing online for over a decade, and she has been developing and directing online shared curriculum initiatives for the past 7 years. Her work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, WPA Journal, and Research in Online Literacy Education as well as multiple edited collections.
Sean Rys
Sean J. Rys is a Principal Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of Arizona, where he has taught online and in-person courses in First-Year Writing and Professional and Technical Writing since 2009. Through an ongoing collaboration with the university’s Adobe Creative Campus initiative, he develops multimodal composing projects that engage students as digital authors and designers. He is a recipient of the Teaching With Technology Award and former chair of the Digital Technologies and Pedagogies Collaborative Learning Committee.