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Announcements:

We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Intersectional Rhetorics writing retreat. This fully funded retreat, to immediately follow the 2025 RSA Summer Institute, offers three days of workshopping, community, and a book contract with the Intersectional Rhetorics series to selected applicants.

NCA conference information:
We will be at booth 109 at the National Communication Association conference in New Orleans. Use code OSUNCA at checkout for 30% off and free US shipping on all rhetoric and communication books.

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

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

Erin J. Rand

Forthcoming

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

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

Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly

Forthcoming

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

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

Pamela VanHaitsma

2024

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

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

Cruz Medina

2024

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space cover

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space

Donnie Johnson Sackey

2024

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

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

Annie Hill

2024

Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts cover

Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts

Edited by Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates

2024

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

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

Tracey Owens Patton

2024

Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency cover

Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency

Risa Applegarth

2024

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

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

Danielle Endres

2023

The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education cover

The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education

Michael Bernard-Donals

2023

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

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

Claire Sisco King

2023

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption cover

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

2023

Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics cover

Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics

Hannah Noel

2022

At Home in the Anthropocene cover

At Home in the Anthropocene

Amy D. Propen

2022

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics cover

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

V. Jo Hsu

2022

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics cover

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics

Edited by Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant

2022

Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness cover

Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness

Molly Margaret Kessler

2022

Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History cover

Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History

Jason Barrett-Fox

2022

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

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

Christa J. Olson

2021

Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics cover

Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Wendy S. Hesford

2021

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips cover

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Susan E. Kirtley

2021

Where’s the Rhetoric? Imagining a Unified Field cover

Where’s the Rhetoric? Imagining a Unified Field

S. Scott Graham

2020

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

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

Edited by Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John A. Lynch, and Cynthia Ryan

2020

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

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

Luke Winslow

2020

Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood cover

Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood

Allison L. Rowland

2020

The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies cover

The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies

Brooke Rollins

2020

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

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

Jenny Rice

2020

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

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

Casey Ryan Kelly

2020

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States cover

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States

Megan Eatman

2020

Vaccine Rhetorics cover

Vaccine Rhetorics

Heidi Yoston Lawrence

2020

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship cover

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship

Shui-yin Sharon Yam

2019

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

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

Amanda Nell Edgar

2019

Raveling the Brain: Toward a Transdisciplinary Neurorhetoric cover

Raveling the Brain: Toward a Transdisciplinary Neurorhetoric

Jordynn Jack

2019

Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet cover

Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet

Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher

2019

Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic cover

Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

Justin Hodgson

2019

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border cover

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

Nina Maria Lozano

2019

Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice cover

Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice

Casey Boyle

2018

Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene cover

Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene

Amy D. Propen

2018

Precarious Rhetorics cover

Precarious Rhetorics

Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Adela C. Licona, and Christa Teston

2018

Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema cover

Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema

Christopher Carter

2018

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

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

Jay Timothy Dolmage

2018

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

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

Dana L. Cloud

2018

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

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

Edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Tiffany Bourelle

2018

Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes cover

Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes

Lora Arduser

2017