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Ewa McGrail, Ph.D.
	Position: Founding Editor of Ubiquity and Editor of the Research Strand
	Bio: Ewa McGrail, Ph.D., is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at Georgia State University. In her research, she examines digital writing and multimodal composition, multimodal assessment, sequential art narrative; AI and ethics; AI and critical thinking, AI literacy copyright; critical media literacy and social representations in media, popular culture and literature. Dr. McGrail teaches theoretical models of writing, digital multimodal composition, digital media literacy, English education methods, as well as content area reading and children’s and young adolescents’ literature.  In her theory and research-informed coursework, doctoral students, teachers, and teacher candidates explore complex issues represented in the literature, media and popular culture they read and produce, and more recently the rapidly evolving AI use landscape and the future of the English Language Arts and literacy, so that they can act boldly, passionately and creatively to address them in their own instruction and communities.

 

J. Patrick McGrail, Ph.D.
	Position: Co-Founding Editor of Creative Works
	Bio: J. Patrick McGrail, Ph.D. is Professor of Communication at Jacksonville State University. He teaches theory and praxis communication law, communication theory, media writing and audio production. In the early aughts, he was Assistant Professor of Communications at Susquehanna University and Penn State/Altoona, where he taught a broad range of courses in electronic media. His research interests include copyright and AI and changing narrative tropes in television screenwriting. He also has a keen interest in music production and holds a number of musical copyrights. He is the former President of the Jacksonville State Faculty Senate and currently sits on its Executive Committee.

 

Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Ph.D.
	Position: Founding Editor of the Praxis Strand
	Bio: Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of ESOL, Language and Literacy in the Middle and Secondary Education (MSE) Department of Georgia State University. She is the author/co-editor of five books including: co-editor (with Geeta Verma) of Critical Mass in the Teacher Education Academy: Symbiosis and Diversity (2014). Dr. Tinker Sachs is the co-editor of the journal, GATESOL in Action. She is concerned with local and global community building through her partnerships and research projects in Atlanta and in the Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand. Dr. Tinker Sachs’ research focuses on local and international teacher professional development through transformative culturally responsive literacy pedagogies.

 

Ruchi Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
	Position: Associate Editor of Ubiquity
	Bio: Ruchi Bhatnagar, Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State University. She serves as the assessment coordinator for the unit of teacher education. Her courses and research focus on teacher education policy and its impact on teaching and teacher education, assessments in teacher education, program evaluation, teacher retention, and equity and social justice issues in teaching and teacher education. She serves as a site reviewer for the GaPSC program accreditation of teacher education programs in the State of Georgia.