(2021). A monstrous genre—violent “man”. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Lynching and the University. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Ableist Rhetoric: How We Know, Value, and See Disability. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In this essay, we explore the logic behind restrictions on abortion and seek possible rhetorical alternatives by turning to an analysis of women’s later abortion narratives published between 2016 and 2020 in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s two most nationally visible remarks about “late-term” abortion. Because arguments for later abortion rights have implications for all women’s reproductive

ABSTRACT President Trump’s 2016 electoral victory prompted a series of journalist inquiries into the pain of white Rust Belt voters. Imploring readers to heed their cries for help, profiles of “Trump Country” suggested that declining physical health and economic anxiety explained Trump’s success more so than racism and xenophobia. This essay argues that the rhetoric of white working-class pain reproduces

(2021). Ecologies of Guilt in Environmental Rhetorics. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In this essay, I redefine a conception of text as a nowing. Resisting the linear argumentative form of the scholarly journal article, I opt for an internal dialogue as a form of argumentation. The circularity of this method performs the argument of time in rhetoric while elevating endnotes to the importance of the text at the top. I then identify three paradoxes in Aristotle’s argument of

ABSTRACT For over 150 years, Hart Island in New York City has been a burial ground for the city’s indigent and “unclaimed,” over a million dead who because of race, immigration, poverty, and disease were buried in obscurity. For decades, the activist organization Hart Island Project (HIP) has labored to find the names and locate the bodies of those buried there, to destigmatize the island, and to memorialize

ABSTRACT In May 1893, the World's Congress of Representative Women (“WCRW”) convened alongside the Chicago World's Fair to commemorate the progress of women since 1492. The speeches of six Black women were recorded in the congress proceedings: Hallie Q. Brown, Anna J. Cooper, Fanny J. Coppin, Sarah J.W. Early, Frances E. W. Harper, and Fannie B. Williams. Invited to report on Black women's progress

ABSTRACT This essay develops a theory of the visceral imagination by analyzing the first safe sex manual written in the age of AIDS—How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach. At the time of the manual’s publication in 1983, no one knew for certain what caused AIDS. Drawing on the transmission pathways of common sexually transmitted infections and through thick descriptions of the contact between

ABSTRACT To compete for attention in today's online environment, webtexts must appeal not only to human audiences, but also to the search engines that rank them via a results page, driving traffic their way (or not). This article investigates the rhetorical dynamics of this fundamental dimension of contemporary online discourse, viewing search engines as a pivotal nexus between scholarly conversations

ABSTRACT Through multi-channel rhetoric—verbal, musical, and visual—popular music multiplies decentered rhetorical agency. The Beatles’s cultural watershed, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, brilliantly exploits this capacity and arguably exemplifies “genius,” conceptualized as an extraordinary confluence of agency channeled both from and to audience and culture. My analysis of Sgt. Pepper’s cover

(2021). Democracy as fetish. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 120-124.

(2021). Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 124-128.

(2021). Ethics Under Capital: MacIntyre, Communication, and the Culture Wars. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 128-132.

(2021). Intellectual Populism: Democracy, Inquiry, and the People. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 132-136.

(2021). Politics for Everybody: Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 136-139.

ABSTRACT In May 1893, the World's Congress of Representative Women (“WCRW”) convened alongside the Chicago World's Fair to commemorate the progress of women since 1492. The speeches of six Black women were recorded in the congress proceedings: Hallie Q. Brown, Anna J. Cooper, Fanny J. Coppin, Sarah J.W. Early, Frances E. W. Harper, and Fannie B. Williams. Invited to report on Black women's progress

(2021). Intellectual Populism: Democracy, Inquiry, and the People. Quarterly Journal of Speech. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Vulnerability Politics: The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 98-101.

ABSTRACT The Wayback Machine, the world’s most extensive web archive, contains over 370 billion webpages dating to 1996. Yet despite its tagline, “Universal Access to All Knowledge,” overwhelmed visitors report frustration and trouble with keyword searching and site navigation. This essay uses the Wayback Machine to demonstrate how access as a digital archival ideal is realized only to the extent that

ABSTRACT Food and power are inseparable. This essay analyzes a significant moment in transnational food history. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Cold War era 1959 visit to the United States has been recognized as pivotal in Soviet-American public affairs, as well as for Russian-Chinese relations. Yet, too often ignored is that destinations included a seed-corn farm operation and the Iowa State University

ABSTRACT This essay aims to contribute to the development of invitational rhetorical theory, using the tragic and sobering story of “comfort women” as an illustrative case study. By focusing on the relatively recent mediated and special turns in the rhetorical studies, we propose a critical cultural analysis and eventual addendum of mediated texts as well as the rhetoric of materiality as essential

(2021). Rhetoric in Neoliberalism. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 112-116.

(2021). The War of Words. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 108-112.

(2021). Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 105-108.

(2021). Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 116-120.

(2021). Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 101-104.

ABSTRACT To tell the whole story of the struggle for woman suffrage, we need to begin the story well before 1848 and continue it long after 1920. For those teaching about woman suffrage, this essay offers resources that enable you to situate the 19th Amendment within a richer narrative of woman suffrage.

ABSTRACT The centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment offers an opportunity to write a new story about women’s democratic engagement. The goal of this issue is to honor women’s democratic labor while disturbing the generic features of the typical suffrage story, considering, in particular, how suffrage and citizenship have affected and been engaged by women with diverse identities situated

“Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer/The voice is nothing but beaten air.” Seneca the Younger What voice did you hear inside your head when you read that quote? Masculine or feminine? Young or old? Perh...

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where one or two scholars were cited as a means to encompass the entirety of the approach. The book would benefit from including more context, such as the names of the Indigenous territories and Indigenous communities covered in a list or in the index. There were moments in which I wanted to see which First People’s Nations were included in the text, and I ran into difficulties in finding such terms

ABSTRACT Recent years have seen rising public talk around voting access and voter suppression, particularly as linked to marginalized and disenfranchised populations. In this reflection, we assess varied such public conversations and identify an interesting narrative encapsulating both those arguing voter suppression as a rising concern and those minimizing such claims. Organized around “ignorance

ABSTRACT This essay examines the voting rights advocacy of Congress member Barbara C. Jordan. Drawing on some of Jordan’s lesser known speeches, including an address commemorating the 75th anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and congressional testimony on the Voting Rights Act of 1975, I highlight how Jordan rhetorically refigured dominant understandings of the meaning of the vote based on gender

ABSTRACT This contribution explores “shuttling rhetorics” to help explain why the story of the National Woman's Party (NWP) framed many suffrage centennial celebrations. Drawing parallels between the tactics of the NWP and the Greenham Common Peace Camp of the 1980s and 1990s, this essay puts forth shuttling rhetorics as a way to trace movement as a mode of resistance. As an analytic, shuttling rhetorics

ABSTRACT This essay examines how the 1977 International Women’s Year Conference (IWY), a historic gathering of women in Houston, Texas—tasked to put forward a series of policy recommendations, many informed by a feminist perspective—undercut its own intersectional impulse by leveraging collective memory of U.S. suffrage activism. I analyze the conference program, a document distributed to every conference

ABSTRACT This essay explores how homeless women produce advocacy to gain full and substantive citizenship. Homeless women's attempts to gain recognition as full members of the society require them to transform lived experiences of trauma, exclusion, and loss into public arguments. Facing the intersection of civic exclusion by class and gender, homeless women are commonly viewed as welfare-dependent

ABSTRACT This piece argues that dominant histories of U.S. suffrage have misremembered the history of voting rights legislation as one of steady social progress and multicultural inclusion. By contrast, I consider landmark legislation affecting voting rights such as the 19th Amendment and the Dawes and Magnuson Acts as strategies of containment that that expand but also continue to police the racialized

ABSTRACT Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union, was and still is involved in a number of social justice causes, including voter participation. Since her days working at the Community Service Organization in the 1950s, she has long advocated for registering and organizing voters as part of a broader strategy to enfranchise Mexican, Mexican American, and other historically marginalized

ABSTRACT Among the most oft-cited statistics from the 2016 presidential election is that 81 percent of self-identified evangelicals voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. Scholars and pundits maintain this overwhelming support meant born-again Christians overlooked Trump’s well-documented character flaws to elect a leader who would appoint pro-life judges and otherwise agitate against a perceived

ABSTRACT This essay examines 19: The Musical—a memorial project that marks the suffrage centennial. The author employs an intersectional lens to examine the arguments this memorialization makes about a suffrage past as well as a feminist present and future. This intersectional emphasis is especially important given the prevalent present-day assumption of the suffrage movement as an entirely white women's

ABSTRACT Heeding Karma Chavez’s (2015) call to imagine rhetoric as “something entirely different,” I introduce what I call an Afrafuturist Feminist (AFF) rhetorical approach with the aim of offering one means by which rhetorical studies can move beyond normative white constructions of citizenship. In this piece, I flesh out a theoretical framework that explores the ways Black women’s truthtelling engineers

ABSTRACT Facebook meme groups created by Muslim students at American universities are sites of intensive daily productivity, where members post memes they create, or share memes they find elsewhere, joking about the everyday lived experience of practicing Islam as part of a family, a community, and a society. Through the practice of making memes about Muslim piety, members of these groups articulate

ABSTRACT Through an analysis of anti-suffrage arguments, I identify white supremacist tropes as an important strand in woman suffrage debates. I argue that sexualization and themes of home were signals to racial bias, and American womanhood was used as a rhetorical resource in struggles over race and national identity. As we celebrate the centennial of woman suffrage, it is vital to recognize how debates

ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore how Native American rhetoric of resistance exposes the settler colonial logics that constitute a hegemonic force in the greater social imaginary. Focusing on two sites—the Minneapolis Walker Arts Center’s Scaffold exhibit and The Landing, a historic settlers’ village located twenty miles from the Walker—I assess both how settler colonialism is enacted in these spaces

propaganda to spread further. Woods and Hahner leave the reader on a cynical note: several years after the rise of the Alt-right, we still do not adequately understand how to alleviate these divisions or avoid external interference. In their conclusion, Woods and Hahner try to synthesize these observations and offer strategies or tactics to change our circumstances. First, political and social campaigns

enough affirmative provocations to invite future debate. The aforementioned episode of Twin Peaks ends with a repulsive, oversized, insect-like creature, also awakened by the Trinity bomb test, crawling toward a sleeping girl perceived to be Sarah Palmer. After hearing the supernatural Woodsmen’s address, her mouth opens, and lets the evil in. These two images map onto Matheson’s research concerns—the

ABSTRACT This essay examines #SayHerName as a case study to analyze how circulation of the hashtag both challenged women’s erasure from #BlackLivesMatter discourse and motivated activists to center the stories of Black women killed in police interactions. We introduce the term rhetorical stratification to discern why the #SayHerName hashtag came to matter, and how it remained relevant in the national

As depicted in the critically revered eighth episode of 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, the detonation of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, unleashes an inhuman evil upon the...

ABSTRACT This article employs the topographical metaphors of terrain and territory to examine how, upon the 2015 death of Cecil the lion at the hands of the dentist Walter Palmer, outrage was channeled into and captured by digital topoi. Digital rhetoric is organized into a topical system that is topographical, composed of not just “places” but “levels” that organize and orient rhetorical expressions

ABSTRACT During a televised ceremony celebrating the Boston Marathon bombing heroes, Red Sox star David Ortiz used profanity in his unscripted message of support for the city. The rhetorical significance of this incident lies not just with his language, but also the reactions to it. That many deemed Ortiz's profanity inoffensive—even appropriate—prompts a reconsideration of profanity's role in civic

Ephraim Chambers’s Cyclopædia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728) offered readers a “taxonomy of knowledge” that lists rhetoric as one of the “forty-seven major areas of the sciences and arts,” categorizing it as a “symbolic” art (98–99). Chambers’s encyclopedic project innovated, however, in that its own information infrastructure was ordered not thematically, according to such

try – an industry which the authors note continues to enjoy considerable cultural cachet in spite of its disastrous impacts on the environment. Next, Catherine Chaput mobilizes affect theory to explain the trouncing of John Kenneth Galbraith’s sedate documentary series, Age of Uncertainty, by Milton Friedman’s sentimental rejoinder, Free to Choose, in the court of public opinion. Chapter nine sees

ABSTRACT Abolitionist Sallie Holley (1818–1893) lectured widely as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, but she is understudied in rhetoric because her speech transcripts are not extant in existing archives. This essay argues that, even where faced with such archival absences, rhetorical scholars may reconstruct a speaker's career through compilation and analysis of digital surrogates and

1. Karen Burke LeFevre, Invention as a Social Act (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987). 2. Marilyn Cooper, “Rhetorical Agency as Emergent and Enacted,” College Composition and Communication 62, no. 3 (2011): 420–49. 3. Carolyn Miller, “What Can Automation Tell Us about Agency?” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 37, no. 2 (2007): 137–57. 4. Thomas Rickert, Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements

ABSTRACT Native women and girls suffer sexual violence at the highest rate of any demographic in the United States—primarily perpetrated by non-Native assailants. In this essay, we explore how dominant Euro-American discourses regarding trauma, sexual violence, and indigenous peoples complicate this epidemic. These discourses individualize trauma, assign it an unrealistic linear timeline that presupposes

ABSTRACT As Lost Cause statues come down across the country, communities are forced to reckon with monumental absences. While the rhetorical significance of monuments is well-established in scholarly literature, the rhetoric of monumental absence is not as thoroughly covered. To better understand the role that monumental absence plays in both public space and civic life, this essay theorizes residual

ABSTRACT This essay contributes to and reframes the preliminary scholarly assessments of President Donald J. Trump's appeals to rage, malice, and revenge by sketching the rhetorical dimensions of an underlying emotional-moral framework in which victimization, resentment, and revenge are inverted civic virtues. I elaborate on the concept of ressentiment (re-sentiment), a condition in which a subject

ABSTRACT Rhetorical scholarship must move in new linguistic and decolonial directions, to illustrate those languages/cultures/nationalities that have been marginalized in academia. English language dominance in the academy reflects relations of power, race, ethnicity, culture, globalization, colonization, and dualistic ways of thinking. Fluency in English is a type of linguistic capital that is preferred