Derek M. Sparby (they/he) is an Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetorics and Technical Writing at Illinois State University, where they research digital aggression, memes, and ethics. They have received national acclaim for their research—including the 2016 Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award, the 2017 Hugh Burns Dissertation Award, and the 2019 Distinguished Book Award (with Jessica Reyman for the co-edited collection Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression), and they co-founded the Digital Aggression Working Group in 2019. Derek’s work has appeared in Computers and Composition and Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric (edited by Crystal VanKooten and Victor Del Hierro).