Call For Submissions

Constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space is accepting submissions for the inaugural issue, which is live here.

Constellations is an online double-blind peer review publishing space focused on cultural rhetorics scholarship, teaching, and practice. Cultural rhetorics is anchored in the belief that all cultures are rhetorical and all rhetorics are cultural, and this belief forms a set of constellating methodologies, theories, and practices which draw attention to the intricate ways meaning emerges in human practices.

Because scholarship in this field often doesn’t fit within the boundaries of many traditional scholarly journals, presses, and online forums, we’ll be building constellations as a space for a variety of kinds of publications: traditional articles of 4000-6000 words or the equivalent multimedia pieces, short monographs of under 90,000 words or the equivalent multimedia pieces, “new ideas” pieces of any length in any media, teaching conversation pieces, digital installations, films, webtexts, multimodal pieces, and forms we haven’t imagined yet.

Thus, the constellations editorial board invites submissions from scholars, teachers, artists, activists, and community members whose work is accessible in all media forms suitable for web-based publication and distribution. While the content of the work accepted will be focused on cultural rhetorics theories, methodologies and methods, histories, pedagogies, cultures, power, knowledge, and meaning-making practices, both historical and contemporary, constellations especially encourages non-traditional pieces, particularly those that push boundaries of style, form, content, and media in their composition and presentation.

We are especially looking for submissions that are anchored in Rhetoric & Composition but are also substantially engaged in scholarship from other related fields and interdisciplines—African American Studies, American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Asian & Pacific American Studies, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Postcolonial & Decolonial Studies, Queer, Gender & Women’s Studies, Performance & Embodiment Studies, Working-class Studies, and more.

Email inquiries and submissions to constell8cr@gmail.com.

Founder/Editor-In-Chief

Malea Powell, Michigan State University

Managing Editors

Alex Hidalgo, Michigan State University

Cindy Tekobbe, University of Alabama

Phil Bratta, Michigan State University

Editorial Assistant

Hannah Brady Espinoza, Michigan State University

Pedagogy Blog Editors

Margaret Price, The Ohio State University

Chad Iwertz, The Ohio State University

Editorial Board

Daisy Levy, Southern Vermont College

Terese Guinsatao Monberg, Michigan State University

Gwendolyn Pough, Syracuse University

Margaret Price, The Ohio State University

Jackie Rhodes, Michigan State University

Raúl Sánchez, University of Florida

Review Board

Sara Alvarez, University of Louisville

Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky

Will Banks, East Carolina University

Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI

Tamika Carey, University at Albany, SUNY

Christina Cedillo, University of Houston Clear Lake

Matt Cox, East Carolina University

Jay Dolmage, University of Waterloo

Tim Dougherty, West Chester University of PA

Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University

Melissa Elston, Northwest Missouri State University

Candace Epps-Robertson, Old Dominion University

TJ Geiger, Baylor University

Matt Gomes, Michigan State University

Angela Haas, Illinois State University

Steven Hammer, Saint Joseph’s University

Ames Hawkins, Columbia College Chicago

Beth Keller, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

Lisa King, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Kimberli Lee, Northeastern State University

Katie Manthey, Salem College

Aja Martinez, Syracuse University

Cruz Media, Santa Clara University

Staci Perryman-Clark, Western Michigan University

Stacey Pigg, North Carolina State University

Dora Ramirez, Boise State University

Ana Milena Ribero, Oregon State University

Jim Ridolfo, University of Kentucky

Andrea Riley-Mukavetz, Bowling Green State University

Suzy Rumsey, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

Trixie Smith, Michigan State University

Don Unger, St. Edward’s University