Acknowledgements

FIPSE Funding Statement

The contents of this book were developed under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Visit our project website for more information about OER for Social Justice [Website].

Other Acknowledgements

This OER would not be possible without a generous community of support. Enormous thanks to the entire grant team at OERFSJ—especially Karna Younger and Theresa Huff, who held our hands through the entire development process, and Lev Rickards, who supported the SCU teams. Thank you to Santa Clara University’s Faculty Collaborative for Teaching Innovation for funding additional grants to support this project: a Teaching with Technology Grant, an AI Curricular Development Grant, and a Faculty Learning Community. Thank you to our student assistants, Bela Buenrostro and Jacob Salazar, for their incredible work and the many hours they spent setting up our Pressbook. Thank you to the peer reviewers at USF, led by Leigh Meredith, and our internal reviewers, David Coad, Mostafa Jalal, and Amna Yusuf, for their generous feedback and time commitment to our material. We are also grateful for the enthusiastic support of SCU’s Instruction and Assessment librarians—particularly Andrew Carlos, for his feedback during the early stages of the project. Thank you to our English department manager, Jessica Gopp, for helping us through funding logistics, and to her student worker, Isabel Espinoza, for creating a beautiful cover. Finally, thank you to our English department colleagues and our families for supporting this endeavor.