ABSTRACT In this Introduction, the Guest Editors situate this themed issue on (Re)Sounding Pedagogy within ongoing communication research interrogating voice, argumentation, race, and power. We also offer a description of how we work to make sense of some of the relationships among sound, pedagogy, and social contexts. We encourage you to engage playfully with our work and with the scholarly pieces

ABSTRACT In this audio essay, the author/speaker contemplates the perceived relationship between the voice and the speaker—the person in the voice—and asks the following questions: What does it mean when we judge that the person does not sound like they should? In terms of pedagogy and beyond, what does it mean when we judge a person as not speaking the way we think they should? How does our judgment

ABSTRACT Like the DJ who mixes together snippets of songs, I use snippets of memories within this essay to create a layered account of my experience of being an insider/outsider within racialized academic spaces. Sharing these snippets lead me to a discussion about how the choices I deploy within my academic writing are an active attempt to make room and create a homeplace for myself within the ivory

ABSTRACT This essay reflects on critical intercultural communication pedagogy associated with Deaf instructors teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to hearing students. Focusing on the presence and absence of sound while learning ASL—a language that lives visually–spatially—the essay offers preliminary observations of how the present absence of sound demonstrates the distinctive way an ASL classroom

ABSTRACT Auditory privacy is an unequally distributed resource. Inequitable access to the auditory shield, a practice that excludes the public from educational spaces to allow for experimentation with convictions and beliefs, serves as a reminder that sound is raced. This analysis of American-style intercollegiate policy debate pays specific attention to the different adjectives used by media outlets

ABSTRACT This essay recovers the communication pedagogy that the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) developed as part of their outreach to immigrant men in the industries in the early-20th-century U.S.A. It brings into focus how the YMCA's teaching techniques negotiated the relation between labor and labor power by configuring sound, speech, and class subjectivity in a way that put in motion

ABSTRACT This performative, dialogic essay and experimental performance in sound for 2+ voices explores collaboration through audio as an embodied and emergent critical communication pedagogy. We frame two audio projects as inherently pedagogical forms of creative inquiry while evoking the uncertainty, joy, and chaos of our evolving processes on the page and in aural resonances. Sound-based collaborations

ABSTRACT In this essay, we describe a pedagogy for teaching and studying literature and cities through the embodiment of an urban sound scavenger. Extending Walter Benjamin’s figure of the ragpicker to poetically assemble disparate urban imaginaries, we explore how two linked teaching projects set in Los Angeles, CA, demonstrate listening bodies coconstituting both literary texts and urban environments

ABSTRACT In this audio essay, I ruminate on the pedagogical implications of two kinds of deep listening to what lies beneath our taken-for-granted auditory worlds. The first considers the elemental soundscapes and chatty silence of the environments in which we are always already implaced. The second considers the ethical drones and demands of dispossession, especially in terms of social justice. In

(2020). Review of Communication guest reviewers, volume 20. Review of Communication: Vol. 20, (Re)Sounding Pedagogies, pp. 395-397.

(2020). National Communication Association Heritage Project. Review of Communication: Vol. 20, (Re)Sounding Pedagogies, pp. 398-432.

ABSTRACT Black Panther (2018) is now one of the most popular Hollywood movies across the globe featuring a predominantly Black cast. Its success lies not only in economic value, but also in its ability to present universal concerns of power, pride, and humanity from global Black perspectives. In this essay, we analyze Black Panther through the lens of postcolonial cultural critique guided by Afrofuturism

ABSTRACT Black Panther (2018) uplifted and affirmed Blackness for many Black Americans and across the African diaspora; however, Black Panther's reimagining required a return to dark matter for bodies marginalized beyond race. This essay uses autopoetic and performative writing to unpack the moments of compulsory social identity expression that cloak non-normative narratives of existence as nonexistent

ABSTRACT Black Panther (2018) offers scholars a unique opportunity to measure the potential positive influence of the film on American youth, particularly youth of color. Past research demonstrated that, for African Americans, greater ethnic identity is associated with greater wellbeing and empowerment, findings we replicated here. We also studied the influence of the film on wellbeing and empowerment

ABSTRACT Marvel's Black Panther (2018) begins with a young N’Jadaka (aka Erik “Killmonger” Stevens) asking his father, Prince N’Jobu, to tell him the story of home. N’Jobu shares the origin story of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the most technologically advanced in the world. However, as the film progresses, a more complicated narrative of “home” emerges for N’Jadaka—a character who fluctuates

ABSTRACT This essay interrogates queer erasure from the film Black Panther. The implications of queer erasure from one of the most recognizable and lucrative franchises in film history are particularly problematic as Black Panther envisions “a Pan-African past, present, and future” where queer bodies are both invisible and unwelcome. By continuing to relegate queer sexualities to spaces of Otherness

ABSTRACT This essay argues that the superhero movie Black Panther (2018) operates allegorically as a neocolonial text. The central conflict between T’Challa/Black Panther and his nemesis Killmonger maps onto debates and mediated discourses about Black Power ideologies that proliferated during the mid- to late 20th century. The film resolves this conflict through the involvement of a white Central Intelligence

ABSTRACT International aid often functions as a neocolonial extension of colonial power structures. Aid to Africa is particularly problematic because of ideologies casting the continent as backward and devoid of agency, which have material consequences for African lives. Afrofuturist imaginings offer a space where these politics of aid can be challenged, as Afrofuturism centers Africa and the African

ABSTRACT Critics and scholars alike hail Black Panther (2018) as a celebratory cinematic response to decades of racial injustice in Hollywood while also calling attention to popular culture's limited means to transform structural oppressions. Our Introduction to this themed issue explores the provocative tensions—between jubilation/disappointment, progress/retrogression, and reality/fantasy—that surround

ABSTRACT Black Panther’s (2018) Afrofuturistic cultural footprint—left by the utopic, fictional African country of Wakanda and its new King, T’Challa/Black Panther—was significant not just for the superhero film genre, but also for the representation of Africa, Black femininity, Black identity, and a mighty and self-sustaining society unimpacted by war or colonization. While the film was praised for

ABSTRACT This is the Guest Editors’ Introduction to a themed issue that reflects on the inaugural Rhetoric Society of America Project, which, in 2019, hosted a range of rhetorical investigations into the University of Nevada, Reno’s Campus Master Plan and its Gateway Precinct. It argues that the recent field orientation to rhetoric pushes rhetoricians to think about how their scholarship might participate

ABSTRACT This essay details the process of creating an interactive visual aid—a digital story map—for the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Project in Power, Place, and Publics at the University of Nevada, Reno. In addition to reviewing story maps and their potential for communicating persuasive messages more generally, this essay also reflects on the utility and challenges involved with integrating

ABSTRACT The 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Project on Power, Place, and Publics at the University of Nevada, Reno (RSA Project) served several objectives for its participants, organizers, and RSA. It was also an occasion to study the University of Nevada, Reno's Campus Master Plan and its impact on communities and students. It provided intensive instruction in field methods for those who attended

ABSTRACT The Precarious Economies working group engaged the University of Nevada Reno’s (UNR) Campus Master Plan (CMP) from the perspective of precarity—broadly understood as material conditions of vulnerability that threaten living bodies and are outside of one’s control. Employing traditional and in situ methods of rhetorical analysis and fieldwork, we investigated how the creative destruction of

ABSTRACT The Environmental Justice working group took an engaged and intersectional approach, focusing on interconnections between affordable housing, transportation, and University of Nevada, Reno campus planning. The working group made three recommendations to advance local environmental justice commitments: (1) improve air quality and access to green spaces in campus development, (2) prioritize

ABSTRACT This essay examines what thinking with disability brings to site-specific rhetorical work, which is work where rhetoricians gather to study location-related texts. Adapting the rhetorical triangle, I suggest that this work is fundamentally about the relationships between communicators, texts, and audiences, and my focus on the importance of including the perspectives of disabled and/or disability

ABSTRACT Community-engaged rhetoric enables rhetoricians to discern the ways social issues appear in the nomos, or cultural disposition, of public discourse; to hear the diverse ways humans measure experience about those issues that constitute the dissoi logoi, or competing logics, in public discourse; and to make the weaker case stronger about those issues by reframing them as catalysts for community-engaged

ABSTRACT Several key questions about evaluating the University of Nevada, Reno’s Campus Master Plan from a “deep roots” perspective are worth considering, both in relation to the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Project in Power, Place, and Publics at the University of Nevada, Reno (RSA Project) and in relation to others that gather rhetorical scholars and community leaders for the purpose of developing

ABSTRACT Traditionally, public memory scholarship looks to the monuments and memorials inscribed with cultural narratives of the past. Yet, public memory is also a process of formation and deformation, of comings and goings, much like the tourists entering and exiting a city such as Reno, NV. For this project, the authors of this essay took up Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman's “walking methodologies”

ABSTRACT University of Nevada, Reno Executive Vice President and Provost expresses his appreciation to organizers of and participants in the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Project in Power, Place, and Publics (RSA Project), which was hosted on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. The RSA Project critically evaluated the 2014 UNR Campus Master Plan (CMP) and provided insights on how future updates

ABSTRACT The 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Project in Power, Place, and Publics at the University of Nevada, Reno is a nice case study of how interactions between the academy and American Indian tribes demonstrate the persistent challenges of bridging our nation's entrenched cultural and racial divisions. The unspoken tensions between our tribal communities and our country's corporate/government/higher

ABSTRACT This essay suggests that colleges and universities incorporate settler technologies, as discursive, mathematical, spatial tools, that further settler colonialism in our economic moment. These tools become advantageous when the territories of the campus and the city desire to merge residential and economic interests. My writing derives from a plenary address at the 2019 Rhetoric Society of

ABSTRACT This essay claims that white nationalism is a political identity animated by the affect of racial anxiety. Drawing from Frantz Fanon's work on blackness as a phobic object, Hortense J. Spillers's conception of the flesh/body distinction, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on anxiety, the essay argues that the racial anxiety of the white nationalist subject emerges from encounters with the incapacity

ABSTRACT In this essay, the author uses Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to explain the specific insistence of blood and economic/personal financial relations as organizing signifiers in federal Indian law, taking Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (2013) as the primary case study of the author. The author maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis helps clarify: (1) how these signifiers organize legal rhetorics

ABSTRACT One of the grand narratives of modernity, psychoanalysis can be read as a genre of speculative discourse that, recognizing the force of living speech, places itself in competition with philosophy and rhetoric. Performative through and through, it uncovers the ambiguity of meaning as it flows from speakers to addressees who stand to the former as more than themselves. Given its emphasis on

ABSTRACT As one asks for a foundation of psychoanalysis and media archaeology, all paths lead back to Sigmund Freud. In addition to founding psychoanalysis as an “archaeology of the soul,” his remarkable endeavor also gave rise to the foundation of contemporary media archaeology, which depends on a long prehistory of archaeological models itself. In order not to mistake these models as mere metaphors

ABSTRACT With the intensifying demand for transparency in government has come a dramatic increase in the number of spectacular public leaks that carry dramatic public consequences. This essay reviews how transparency has been considered an ideal of democratic theory and critical media scholarship and offers several psychoanalytic tenets for reading public demands for transparency. The essay then analyses

Progress is enchanting. I felt its charms when I learned that I would be the next editor of this journal, news that I took as proof of personal and professional growth. I have embraced its aspirations while setting goals for my term: making the journal’s new format a success, increasing its readership, assembling an inspiring board of editors, and showing the potential of its online format. The promise

ABSTRACT One of the fundamental concerns regarding communication media is accuracy or truth. This essay takes up and investigates this issue, which has, in the wake of the recent U.S. presidential election and the arrival of “the post-truth era,” become increasingly important. It does not, however, examine any particular truth or the truth that is conveyed by any specific medium. Instead it seeks to

ABSTRACT In this essay, the author follows Martin Heidegger and considers the formative structure of the they-self (das Man) to call attention to the communicative, hermeneutic possibility of “twisting free” from within it. The author then calls upon Kenneth Burke, Paul Ricoeur, Richard Kearney, and Catherine Keller to help “borrow back” a sacred but fragile language. Heidegger's twisting free thus

ABSTRACT In this essay, I argue for Chicanx feminist theories as an optimal domain for the ontological insights of border identities in the process of constructing knowledge, and more specifically in the development of communication theory. Because Chicanx feminist scholarship articulates specific ontological viewpoints, it expertly illuminates border experiences. For some time, Chicanx theorists within

ABSTRACT In “The Question Concerning Technology,” Martin Heidegger argues that the essence of modern technology is a mode of disclosure that brings the world to a particular appearance. Through his understanding of essence, Heidegger develops a novel way to understand the impact of technology. In this essay, I use Heidegger’s understanding of essence to shed light on writing’s impact on the history

ABSTRACT In this Introduction, I make the case for an interdisciplinary exchange between philosophy, literature, and communication studies that explores the ontological question of being through an analysis of the communicative acts constitutive of being human. Literature provides the grounds on which the philosophical exploration of communication is carried out. To clarify the proposed inquiry, I

ABSTRACT The metaphor of the mirror is central to the communicative praxis of philosophers who wish to articulate ontological insights into the nature of existence, and into the recognition that “I am, I exist.” However, the philosophical tradition has deployed this metaphor at the expense of place. Human persons are said to exist as disembodied and displaced minds—mysterious and immaterial entities

ABSTRACT This essay develops the concept of exposure as it functions in Michel Foucault's philosophical project. I argue that exposure is a critical component of subject formation in disciplinary society. It also is a concept that can elucidate Foucault's ethics as a form of resistance to power. Discipline forms subjects through processes of exposure that, on the one hand, isolate individual bodies

ABSTRACT Henry James’s novel Washington Square demonstrates original ontological insights about the power of slow thinking and represents, along with later trends in psychoanalysis and existential philosophy, the need for stories about hard-won maturity. James’s “jilted heiress” is too slow to realize that the man she loves is a trickster, even though her father warns her against him. Yet by validating

ABSTRACT Recent investigations of the communicative challenges posed by mental illness offer opportunities for exploring how tacit philosophies of communication and ontologies inform how sufferers of depression frame their experience as a lack in the ability to communicate meaningfully with others. I read William Styron’s memoir about depression as a response to what rhetorical scholars call rhetorical

ABSTRACT Debates whether communication studies should be housed with the humanities or social sciences have raged on for decades. In response to attacks on the humanities, we argue that the discipline has much to gain from seeing how the humanities contributes to the social sciences and the potential benefits of integrating humanistic and social scientific approaches. Specifically, we present two case

ABSTRACT Over the course of this essay, I advance four interrelated claims. One, today's crisis in the humanities is real. Two, today's crisis in the humanities is also manufactured. Three, a jettisoned archaeogenealogy of civil society and its associated political principle of the common good will show that the crisis in the humanities that is both real and manufactured is indicative of a dramatic

ABSTRACT With the humanities under attack, this essay suggests the virtue of obstinacy and fortitude in the face of the continual erasure of spaces for study. Drawing from Henry David Thoreau as an exemplar of obstinate thought, I suggest a hermeneutically inflected communicative ethic that responds to the need for the humanities to defend themselves by turning to the material objects of study: books

ABSTRACT Over the last decade, humanities advocates have called for public support of liberal arts education, noting the vital contributions of the humanities to local, national, and global conversations. At the same time, systemic public problems have energized serial community discussions on campuses across and beyond the U.S.A. In the contexts of corporatized higher education and posthumanism, this

ABSTRACT This special issue of Review of Communication presents new offerings of the study of communication, forging present and future humanities. This Introduction engages the six essays in this special issue—which extend and intersect across categories of the humanistic study of communication: communication philosophy and ethics, rhetorical theory, history, pedagogy, criticism, and digital humanities—to

ABSTRACT In response to the latest “crisis” in the humanities, advocates have marched, rallied, fundraised, and—especially—argued. This essay contends that communication scholars can support the growing “case for the humanities” by analyzing argumentative strategies, and more specifically, by offering ethical argumentative strategies that avoid replicating structures of domination. In particular, we

ABSTRACT Francesco Petrarch was a pioneering figure not only in the study of the humanities, but also in the defense of the humanities. A prolific writer and avid reader of the classics, particularly of the historians, rhetoricians, and poets, Petrarch cleared the way for humanistic studies in an age dominated by rigid scholasticism. Not surprisingly, then, Petrarch also had to defend himself against

ABSTRACT As an introduction to this special issue on prison education, this article seeks to radically reframe how academic literature addresses and understands the carceral classroom. The primary lens through which prison education is evaluated is as a means of reducing recidivism. In this rhetorical autoethnography, we write back against that assertion, arguing that prison education is far more than

ABSTRACT Prison educators “stand at the crossroads of liberation and incarceration.” They promote education, which can be a tool of personal freedom, in a setting designed to oppress and control. What practices help them accomplish the objectives of liberatory learning? This essay traces the philosophical and relational premises that I believe are essential for educators teaching in prisons. It begins

ABSTRACT The Second Chance Act of 2007 provided funding for an array of re-entry education programs aimed at helping prisoners succeed after their release. The debate team at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta (USP–Atlanta) discussed re-entry education in a debate held in April 2017. Inspired by their arguments, this essay explores the rhetorical dimensions of re-entry education by way of the

ABSTRACT While much has been written within academic journals about prisoners, rarely is there anything written by prisoners. In this essay, we, a group of prisoners who are earning or have earned college degrees while incarcerated in Texas, address the purpose, merits, and pitfalls of prison education and reform. Written as a response to the essays appearing in this special issue, we discuss our experiences

ABSTRACT Building supportive communities and improving programming for incarcerated persons can be difficult due to stereotypes derived from culture, media, and personal upbringing. Such stereotypes, like the narratives from which they are derived, are socially constructed. To develop an understanding of how those narratives construct “others” and to transform stereotypes of incarcerated “others,”

ABSTRACT The foundation of disciplines is often associated with initial books and their authors. The discipline of speech–communication–communicology is no exception. Books by Albert Craig Baird, Lester Thonssen, and Franklin Hayward Knower serve as the definition of our early discipline. This article is about foresight—the anticipation of future developments for what was initially called “general