Bruce C. Appleby is Professor of English and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has taught at all grade levels from pre-school through graduate school and now does in-service and pre-service teacher education for all levels. He has published widely and does workshops and speeches nationally and internationally in such diverse areas as multi-media, computers and composition, gender issues, sexual harassment, teaching literature, whole language in the secondary school, and reading and writing across the curriculum.