Jason D. DeHart earned his PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2019. His research interests include digital literacy, graphic novels and comics, and adolescent literacy. DeHart is the author of Building Critical Literacy and Empathy with Graphic Novels (NCTE).

Suriati Abas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary Education and Reading at State University of New York (SUNY) Oneonta. Her research interests center on critical, multimodal and spatial literacies within school and in out-of-school contexts.

Raúl Alberto Mora is an Associate Professor at the School of Education and Pedagogy at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia (while teaching remotely from Norway), where he also chairs the award-winning Literacies in Second Languages Project research lab. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Doctorate in Education (ELT Emphasis) at Universidad del Valle and has served as visiting faculty at universities in Colombia, Mexico, and Poland.

Damiana Gibbons Pyles is a Professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at Appalachian State University. Her research interests focus on media production, identity, and media literacy practices in order to understand the intersections of the visual, the spoken, the written, and the performed in digital and print literacies.