Experts Guide

Sellers has published 12 books and can discuss poetry, memoir, mindfulness, creativity, teaching creative writing and prosopagnosia (face blindness). Her latest book, "Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators," is a collection of poems featuring "radiant portraits of the people — and creatures — that she encounters in her wonderfully weird home state of Florida."

Fleming is the author of four books of fiction and is an expert in creative and fiction writing.

Armstrong is Literature Program Coordinator for USF's Florida Studies program. She is the author of "Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching" and editor of multiple books on the civil rights movement, including "The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature." She can discuss the civil rights movement, racial justice and topics relating to the civil rights history of Birmingham, Alabama.

Starks is a Shakespearean and early modern British literature expert. Her main research interests include Shakespeare adaptation, cinema, Jewish studies and Levinas She also studies sexuality, violence and trauma in Shakespeare and other Renaissance drama; early modern theatre and Ovid.

Discenza's research focuses primarily on early medieval England, and she teaches courses in Old English language and literature, Middle English language and literature and the History of the English Language

Sipiora's research focuses on modern American literature and film, and grammar and rhetoric in literature and in film.