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National Communication Association annual meeting: Denver, November 20–23, 2025

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Examination, Desk, and Review Copy Policies:

Examination copies are for instructors considering a book for a class. We provide digital examination copies. Request examination copy

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Meet our acquisitions editor:

Tara Cyphers, Managing Editor and Assistant Director
cyphers.3@osu.edu
Acquires in: Rhetoric and communication studies, including for the New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality and Intersectional Rhetorics series.

Welcome to our virtual booth! I oversee our rhet/comm list and am especially interested in projects that make important connections to pressing social, cultural, and political issues. I acquire for both of our rhet/comm series as well as works on our general rhetoric list. I am interested in hearing about your work and welcome both informal email queries and formal proposals.

View our proposal guidelines

Recent Award Winners:

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The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers

Intersectional Rhetorics

Pamela VanHaitsma

~~$32.95~~ $23.07 Paper

Winner, 2025 NCA Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award

National Communication Association annual meeting: Denver, November 20–23, 2025

NCA Conference Discount: Use code OSUNCA at checkout for 30% off plus free US shipping on all rhetoric and communications books through 12/31/25

Examination, Desk, and Review Copy Policies:

Meet our acquisitions editor:

Recent Award Winners:

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor

American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States

Recent Rhetoric & Communication Books:

Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric

Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability

Sacred Sisterhoods: A Celebration of Black Women's Friendships on Television and in Film

Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements

Truth Be Told: White Nostalgia and Antiracist Queer Resistance in “Post-Truth” America

Replaying Marc Anthony: Sonic, Political, and Cultural Resonances

Olfactory Rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems

Afrofuturism and World Order

The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture

Patient Sense: Rhetorical Body Work in the Age of Technology

Rhetorics of Refusal: Medical Dissent and the US-Somali Diaspora

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking

Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery

A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era

Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency

Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting

The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practices

Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces

At Home in the Anthropocene

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics

Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness

Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

Building Confianza: Empowering Latinos/as Through Transcultural Health Care Communication

Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Where’s the Rhetoric?: Imagining a Unified Field

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field

American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump

Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity

Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence

The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida’s Rhetorical Legacies

Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States

Raveling the Brain: Toward a Transdisciplinary Neurorhetoric

Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet

Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice

Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene

Precarious Rhetorics

Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema

Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity

Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes