Composition, Literacy, and Culture

A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Ethical, Methodological, and Representational Questions in Feminist Rhetorical Research

An Examination of Authenticity Through the Lens of Scholarly Writing—and the Reverse

A Linguistic History that Can Help Us Rethink Diversity and Inclusion in Present-Day Public Life

An Examination of the Ways African American Rhetoric Becomes Whitened When It Crosses Over into White Audiences

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina’s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, ...

Addresses Women’s Rhetorical Relationship to Work

Writing as a Social Practice and Embodied Behavior

The Anxiety of Transparency in an Age of Electronic Innovation and Intrusion

An Examination of the American Female Reform Society’s Periodical That Delineates Rhetorical Tactics of the 19th Century Women’s Reform Movement.

How innovation without tradition will lead to technical alienation.

Essays inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly.

Prince Edward County, Virginia as a microcosm of America’s struggle with race, literacy, and citizenship.

Explores the risk ridden realm of wise, if always fallible, rhetorical action.

Reimagines Listening Education to Account for Twenty-First Century Sonic Practices and Experiences

The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory presents a critical examination of rhetorical theory throughout history, in order to develop a unifying vision for the field. Demonstrating that theorists have always been skeptical of, yet committed to “truth” (however fantastic), Ira Allen develops rigorous notions of truth and of a “troubled freedom” that spring from rhetoric’s depths.