<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jonathan Alexander</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ccceditors@gmail.com" target="_blank">ccceditors@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 4:24 PM<br>Subject: CFP: ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF QUEER RHETORIC (UNDER CONTRACT; DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS OCTOBER 1, 2020) -- PLEASE SHARE WIDELY<br>To: <<a href="mailto:wpa-l@asu.edu" target="_blank">wpa-l@asu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">CFP: ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF QUEER RHETORIC (UNDER CONTRACT; DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS OCTOBER 1, 2020) -- PLEASE SHARE WIDELY</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">We have some exciting news: we just signed a contract to edit the Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, and we are looking for potential contributors.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">What does this book aim to do? The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In particular, we feature rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of rhetoric, gender, class, and sexuality. More important, chapters will also attend to the intersections of constructs of queerness with race, class, ability, and neurodiversity. In so doing, the book as a whole acknowledges the many debts contemporary queer theory has to work by scholars of color, feminists, and activists inside and outside the academy. Indeed, one feature of the handbook is its invitation to think of queer rhetoric both within and beyond academia, through an attention to queer performance/art as rhetoric.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">More than a “best of” collection, the Handbook of Queer Rhetoric will feature original work by contemporary scholars reflecting on and forwarding key areas of study in queer rhetoric. Our handbook will approach queer rhetoric through six separable but intra-related conceptual categories: (1) methodologies; (2) histories/archives; (3) identities; (4) communities; (5) interventions; and (6) speculations. While we might (and will) argue that work in any one of these categories can also do the work of other categories, our division helps us trace multiple trajectories of rhetorical scholarship, from initial concerns with making visible the presence of queer rhetorical practice to explorations of queer and trans modes of rhetorical theorizing and critique, and, most recently, toward queer rhetorical speculation. Additionally, throughout this varied body of work, HQR authors will attend to how our historical understanding of queer rhetorical practice is being revised constantly through new theories of historiography. They will also explore how multiple political registers necessarily underscore any work on queer rhetoric.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">The Handbook of Queer Rhetoric will be the first of its kind, helping to survey and document the emergence of this subfield within rhetorical studies while also pointing the way toward new lines of inquiry, new trajectories in scholarship, and new modalities and methods of analysis, critique, intervention, and speculation. </span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">To give you a sense of the book as a whole, we include here the table of contents.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Table of Contents:</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Methodologies: How does one do queer rhetoric -- and then, at the same time, how does one do the study of queer rhetoric? Proposed chapters in this section forward a range of methodologies available for the study of queer rhetorical practices.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Histories, Re-Histories, Archives: This section explores the importance of historical and archival investigation into the complex representation of queer rhetorical practices in a variety of historical contexts. In the following proposed chapters, authors pay particular attention to the use of history in the development or queer rhetorical strategies.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Identities: Identity remains a powerful modality through which queer rhetors establish and explore ethos. In this section, potential authors investigate and complicate the relationships among and between queer/trans identity and rhetorical practices.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Communities / Worlding: Queer rhetorical practices are often used to create, question, bolster, and./or disrupt a variety of communities. They participate broadly in acts of worlding, in counterpublics and in interventions in larger publics. Chapters here investigate queer rhetorical practices in relation to community and worlding.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Interventions: Queer rhetorics draw from a radical and activist context outside academia. How might queer rhetorical practices inform worlds within and beyond the academy? This section draws on and analyzes the varied and creative work of a queer activists as queer rhetors.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Speculations: Queer rhetorical practices often robustly intersect other domains and articulations of identity, community, praxis, materiality, and imagination. This section explores such intersectional queernesses as well as work that uses queerness generatively to speculate on what queerness might be and become. </span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">As you can see, the Handbook of Queer Rhetoric will be the first of its kind, helping to trace and document the emergence of this subfield within rhetorical studies while also pointing the way toward new lines of inquiry, new trajectories in scholarship, and new modalities and methods of analysis, critique, intervention, and speculation. </span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">We’re looking for short chapters--4,000 to 5,000 words. We expect to have up to 60 contributed chapters and are contracted for no more than around 300,000 words (including index and citations). Timeline: We need a 250-word abstract by October 1, 2020; chapter drafts are due late May 2021; completed/edited chapters are due by September 2021. The book is scheduled to be published in early 2022.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">We really hope you’ll consider submitting an abstract (title, section you see your chapter in, plus 200 words) for consideration. Please submit abstracts to <a href="mailto:jjqueerrhet@gmail.com" target="_blank">jjqueerrhet@gmail.com</a>, the email address we’re using for book communications.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Jackie Rhodes</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Michigan State University</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Jonathan Alexander</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">University of California, Irvine</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit"></div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Scott D. Banville, Ph.D.<br>Lorio Endowed Professor of Languages & Literature<br>Writing Program Administrator <br>Department of English, Modern Languages, & Cultural Studies<br>Nicholls State University<br>Thibodaux, LA 70310<br>985-448-4445</div></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Shana Walton<br>Associate Professor<br>Dept. of Languages and Literature<br>Nicholls State University<br>Thibodaux, LA 70310<br>985.448.4458<br><a href="mailto:shana.walton@nicholls.edu" target="_blank">shana.walton@nicholls.edu</a><br><br></div></div></div>