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National Communication Association annual meeting: New Orleans, November 21–24, 2024

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Examination, Desk, and Review Copy Policies:

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Meet our acquisitions editor:

Tara Cyphers, Managing Editor and Assistant Director
cyphers.3@osu.edu
Acquires in: Rhetoric and communication studies, including for the New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality and Intersectional Rhetorics series.

Welcome to our virtual booth! I oversee our rhet/comm list and am especially interested in projects that make important connections to pressing social, cultural, and political issues. I acquire for both of our rhet/comm series as well as works on our general rhetoric list. I am interested in hearing about your work and welcome both informal email queries and formal proposals.

View our proposal guidelines

Recent Award Winners:

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The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Black Performance and Cultural Criticism

Lisa Biggs

~~$37.95~~ $26.57 Paper

Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies • Winner, 2023 ASTR Errol Hill Award • Finalist, 2023 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History

National Communication Association annual meeting: New Orleans, November 21–24, 2024

NCA Conference Discount: Use code OSUNCA at checkout for 30% off plus free US shipping on all rhetoric and communications books through 12/31/24

Examination, Desk, and Review Copy Policies:

Meet our acquisitions editor:

Recent Award Winners:

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor

American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States

The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood

Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood

Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

Vaccine Rhetorics

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship

Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture

Recent Rhetoric & Communication Books:

Rhetorics of Refusal: Medical Dissent and the US-Somali Diaspora

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking

Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery

A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era

Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency

Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting

The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis

Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces

At Home in the Anthropocene

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics

Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness

Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

Building Confianza: Empowering Latinos/as Through Transcultural Health Care Communication

Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Where’s the Rhetoric?: Imagining a Unified Field

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field

American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump

Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity

Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence

The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida’s Rhetorical Legacies

Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States

Raveling the Brain: Toward a Transdisciplinary Neurorhetoric

Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet

Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice

Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene

Precarious Rhetorics

Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema

Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity

Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes