Bruce McComiskey is a professor of rhetoric and writing and director of the Center for Rhetoric in Society in the English department at Virginia Tech University. His books include Teaching Composition as a Social Process (2000), Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric (2002), Dialectical Rhetoric (2015), Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition (2017), and Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran (2021). He is editor of English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) (2006) and Microhistories of Composition (2016) and is coeditor of City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices (2003).