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CFP: ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF QUEER RHETORIC (UNDER CONTRACT; DEADLINE FOR
ABSTRACTS OCTOBER 1, 2020) -- PLEASE SHARE WIDELY

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.

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.

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.

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.

To give you a sense of the book as a whole, we include here the table of
contents.

Table of Contents:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 jjqueerrhet at gmail.com, the email address we’re using for book
communications.

Jackie Rhodes
Michigan State University

Jonathan Alexander
University of California, Irvine




-- 
Scott D. Banville, Ph.D.
Lorio Endowed Professor of Languages & Literature
Writing Program Administrator
Department of English, Modern Languages, & Cultural Studies
Nicholls State University
Thibodaux, LA 70310
985-448-4445


-- 
Shana Walton
Associate Professor
Dept. of Languages and Literature
Nicholls State University
Thibodaux, LA  70310
985.448.4458
shana.walton at nicholls.edu
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