Beverly Wall is the Allan K. Smith Lecturer in English, Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric, and Director of the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric. She co-founded the Intercollegiate E-Democracy Project and has been a commentator on public dialogue and political debate for C-SPAN-TV's “Washington Journal,” Reuters News Service, BBC Radio London, National Public Radio’s “The Connection,” and various newspapers. She has taught writing, rhetoric, and literature for 30 years and has given numerous talks and workshops across the United States and at universities in England, France, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, China, and Japan. Wall is the author of essays on teaching writing with new technologies and the intersection of rhetoric and democracy in the age of the Internet.