Diane E. Boyd is the Executive Director and Associate Dean of Faculty Development at Furman University, USA. She researches Threshold Concepts in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, course design for educational equity, and increasing agency and vitality via values-infused mid-career programming.

Nancy L. Chick is Director of Faculty Development at Rollins College, USA. After becoming Full Professor of English in Wisconsin, she shifted her focus to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and has authored and edited many publications on the results of SoTL projects and on the field of SoTL itself.

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Linda M. Boland is a Professor of Biology and formerly served as Associate Provost for Faculty at the University of Richmond where she was also the founding director of a faculty development center for teaching and scholarship. Her research, with undergraduate student mentees, focuses on neural excitability.

Eriberto "Fuji" Lozada is Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Anthropology at Davidson College in Davidson, NC. He brings his disciplinary training as an anthropologist to bear on his extensive faculty development and teaching and learning.

Katherine A. Troyer is the Director of The Collaborative for Learning and Teaching at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her bookshelves (which place SoTL books next to horror scholarship) reveal her interest in how spoken and unspoken fears-whether in a horror film or in the classroom-shape thoughts and ideas.