Dan Ehrenfeld serves as Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Farmingdale State College (SUNY). He earned his MA in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University, where he specialized in culturally responsive pedagogy and academic instruction for English language learners. He earned his PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he specialized in Rhetoric and Composition. His areas of interest include digital rhetoric, writing in the public sphere, rhetorical circulation, persuasion, and writing pedagogy. Currently, he is working on a book investigating the persuasion practices that characterize political discourse on the social web. Contact Dan at ehrenfd@farmingdale.edu.