Greg Grewell earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in English at San Jose State University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona. While his main research focused from his dissertation, entitled “Rhetoric of Ridicule,” Grewell maintains many other areas of interest as well, including: composition pedagogy history and theory, transfer studies, assessment practices, and rhetoric history and theory. His publications include a reader/rhetoric for teaching fyc and an essay on science fiction literature and films as colonial narratives.