Diane S. Hope Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Diane S. Hope serves as the William A. Kern Professor in Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She publishes in the areas of visual communication and the rhetoric of social change. Publications include Visual Communication: Perception, Rhetoric and Technology (2006) and Earthwork (2001), a special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly devoted to women and the environment. She was general editor of Women’s Studies Quarterly (2002-2005). Hope directs the Kern conferences on Visual Communication: Rhetorics and Technology, and Communication and Social Change. She received the National Communication Association award for excellence in research from the Visual Communication Division in 2004.