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Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
TitleRhetoric Society Quarterly
DisciplineRhetoric, Communication, Literary Studies
AbbreviationRSQ
PublisherRoutledge for the Rhetoric Society of America
CountryUnited States
FrequencyQuarterly
History1971–present
Issn0277-3945

Rhetoric Society Quarterly Rhetoric Society Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes scholarship on rhetorical theory, criticism, pedagogy, and practice. The journal serves an international readership connected to the Rhetoric Society of America, contributing to conversations across fields associated with figures and institutions such as Kenneth Burke, Michel Foucault, Aristotle, Quintilian, and I. A. Richards. Its content often intersects with scholarship produced at universities and research centers like Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, University of Chicago, and Columbia University.

History

The journal was founded in 1971 amid intellectual movements represented by scholars and movements such as Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman, Stephen Toulmin, Roland Barthes, and Jürgen Habermas. Early editorial leadership connected with institutions including University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, and University of Pittsburgh shaped its interdisciplinary orientation. Over successive decades it responded to theoretical turns involving figures and texts like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, and events including conferences sponsored by the Rhetoric Society of America, Modern Language Association, Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the American Historical Association.

Scope and Topics

The journal covers rhetorical theory and criticism with articles that engage canonical and contemporary authors and institutions such as Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Kenneth Burke, I. A. Richards, Chaim Perelman, Stephen Toulmin, Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Erving Goffman, Richard Rorty, Nancy Fraser, Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Edward Said, Raymond Williams, Pierre Bourdieu, Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire, Homi K. Bhabha, Seyla Benhabib, Iris Marion Young, Rita Felski, Harold Bloom, Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare.

Editorial Structure and Publication Details

The editorial apparatus has included editors affiliated with departments and centers at University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Texas at Austin, Pennsylvania State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, Brown University, Rutgers University, Temple University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Michigan State University. The journal appears quarterly and is published by a commercial academic publisher on behalf of the Rhetoric Society of America. It accepts submissions that undergo peer review by scholars connected to academic associations such as the Modern Language Association, International Communication Association, National Communication Association, Society for the History of Rhetoric, and research centers like the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Library of Congress.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in major bibliographic services and databases used by researchers working with resources from institutions like JSTOR, Project MUSE, Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, WorldCat, ERIC, Google Scholar, and library consortia including HathiTrust, OCLC, and national libraries such as the Library of Congress and the British Library.

Notable Articles and Special Issues

Notable contributions have engaged historical and contemporary rhetorical moments involving figures, movements, and events like Abraham Lincoln's rhetoric, Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches, the rhetorical framing of the New Deal, debates over the Vietnam War, responses to the 9/11 attacks, and analyses of media texts by creators such as Orson Welles, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin. Special issues have focused on topics connected to institutions and themes such as the American Revolution, Civil Rights Movement, Women's Suffrage, Postcolonial Studies, Queer Theory, Environmental Humanities, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Public Policy, Law and Rhetoric, and pedagogy tied to programs at Harvard Kennedy School and clinics at Georgetown University.

Awards and Society Activities

The journal is closely linked to the award and programming ecosystem of the Rhetoric Society of America, which sponsors prizes and annual conference panels that often honor scholars such as Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman, Wayne Booth, Richard Weaver, Janet Emig, James Kinneavy, Victor Vitanza, Barbara Biesecker, James A. Herrick, and contemporary contributors affiliated with University of Washington, University of Southern California, University of Toronto, Australian National University, and University of Edinburgh. Society activities include annual meetings, sponsored sessions at the Modern Language Association Convention, workshops at the National Endowment for the Humanities, and collaborative projects with archives like the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the National Archives.

Category:Rhetoric journals