cfp: new directions in rhetoric and materiality
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Book proposals should include the following:
• a general description, or overview of the proposed book
• a table of contents, including a brief precis for each chapter
• a sample chapter, if available (ideally, the introduction and a sample chapter)
• a word count of the project, including bibliography, notes, etc.
• an analysis of the expected audience, or market, for the book
• a round-up of competing books (if any exist), and a brief explanation of the uniqueness of the proposed book
• a curriculum vitae
“The series will push the way we think about a range of materialities, an important and previously under-theorized dimension of rhetorical study given the focus on linguistic, symbolic, and discursive turns. Materialities can focus our attention on the interactivity of symbolic systems with a range of material conditions, from the economic to the affective. We need that complexity, and this series will help provide it.”—Jonathan Alexander, Editor of College Composition and Communication
“The series is timely and much-needed.”—Stuart J. Murray, Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics at Carleton University
“This is an exciting and well-timed book series that rides an emerging wave of interest in this topic while nonetheless filling a gap in current approaches.” —Diane Davis, Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at University of Texas, Austin
Book proposals can be submitted to the series editors, Barbara A. Biesecker ([email protected]), Wendy S. Hesford ([email protected]), or Christa Teston ([email protected]), or to the OSU Press acquisitions editor, Tara Cyphers ([email protected]).
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ss New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Barbara A. Biesecker, Wendy S. Hesford, and Christa Teston, Series Editors
Current thinking about rhetoric signals a new attentiveness to and critical appraisal of material-discursive phenomena. New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality provides a forum for established and emerging scholars to explore how rhetorical theories attuned to the everyday, material, lived conditions of human, nonhuman, and extra-human life are brought to bear upon a wide range of investigative foci, including bodies, biologies, economics, environments, borders, and social events of consequence. Of particular interest to the series’ editors are monographs that push or push against the theoretical, analytical, and methodological orthodoxy on agency in various environs as well as those that pair rhetorical theory with an analysis of material conditions and the social-symbolic labor circulating therein.
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