Frame Work : Culture, Storytelling, and College Writing

GARY COLOMBO is chair of English and ESL at Los Angeles City College. He has served as curriculum coordinator of the Academic Advancement Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. With Bonnie Lisle and Robert Cullen, he is the editor of a best-selling composition reader, Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, Fourth Edition (Bedford Books, 1998).

BONNIE LISLE teaches in the UCLA Writing Programs, where she has specialized in creating curricula for developmental and multiethnic writing courses. Winner of a distinguished teaching award, she cofounded and directed the Community Educator Project, a pilot program for first-year minority students interested in teaching careers. Currently she is coordinating the first-year intensive program in writing at UCLA. She has also worked with faculty and TA groups at UCLA and other campuses to develop more ethnic- and gender-inclusive curricula.

SANDRA MANO teaches in the UCLA Writing Programs, where she has developed teacher training curricula and served as TA coordinator. Specializing in developing and teaching multiethnic writing courses, she has written, with Bonnie Lisle, "Envisioning a Multi-Cultural Rhetoric" for Teaching in the Multiethnic Classroom and has edited, with Barbara Rico, American Mosaic, Second Edition.