Charles J. Kostelnick is a Professor of English at Iowa State University. His works include Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions (with Michael Hassett; Southern Illinois University Press, 2003); Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators (with David D. Roberts; Allyn and Bacon, 1998); and “Melting-Pot Ideology, Modernist Aesthetics, and the Emergence of Graphical Conventions: The Statistical Atlases of the United States, 1874 – 1925” (in Defining Visual Rhetorics, ed. Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers, Erlbaum, 2004).
Miles A. Kimball is an Associate Professor of English at Texas Tech University. His works include Document Design: A Guide for Technical Communicators (with Ann Hawkins; Bedford St. Martin’s, 2008); “London through Rose-Colored Graphics: Visual Rhetoric and Information Graphic Design in Charles Booth’s Maps of London Poverty” (Journal of Technical Writing & Communication 36.4, 2006); and a scholarly edition of Benjamin Disraeli’s The Young Duke (Pickering & Chatto, 2004).
