Beyond the Frontier

Jill Dahlman is a graduate of the University of Hawaii system, having attended Hilo at undergraduate level and Manoa as a graduate. She is currently an Independent Scholar working at various institutions. Jill’s areas of research include composition pedagogy; writing across disciplines; service learning; rhetoric of the Cold War era (particularly comic books of the Golden and Silver Age, protest music, and Star Trek); eco-composition; children’s literature and war; Holocaust literature; and the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers.Piper Selden is a writer, educator, and activist. She holds an MA in English/Composition and Rhetoric, and an MFA in Creative Writing. Piper teaches English for the University of Hawaii system with fields of interest that include creative writing, rhetoric, composition, and topics relating to the environment. Piper’s upcoming books include Invisible Daughter: A Memoir and The Momcologist is In: Life, Parenting, and Cancer – Straight Up, No Chaser.