Dr. Ben Wetherbee is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and English at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, where he also serves as Coordinator of Writing. His research focuses on rhetorical history and theory—particularly relationships between rhetorical topoi and cultural evolution—as well as writing studies and film theory. Previously, his work has appeared in the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Present Tense, The Henry James Review, Literacy in Composition Studies, and Composition Studies, among other journals and edited collections. At USAO, he edits the undergraduate writing journal The Drover Review.