Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth (U of Pittsburgh Press, Dec 2026)
“To insist on the stability of “truth” beyond evanescently shared, existential, embodied experiences would be to disavow rhetoric. But so, too, would be refusing to know the novelty of the variant of “post-truth” we now inhabit. Fortunately, rhetoric has always been before and beyond “truth” and “post-truth” alike. As the essays of this collection indicate, rhetoricians are well-poised to help one another—and all our other others—meaningfully negotiate the constraints of this time.”
- “Rhetoric.” Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary. Edited by Nathalie Fridzema & Anya Shchetvina. Institute of Network Cultures, 2026.
- “The Paradigmatic Aftermath of Digital Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2025.
- “‘A Cesspool of Toxicity, Hatred, and Discrimination”: Twitter, Free Speech Absolutism, and Adoxastic Enshittification,” co-authored with Jonathan S. Carter. Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, vol. 15, no. 3, 2025.
- “What I Read This Summer: Caddie Alford.” dh+lib, September 2025.
- “Witnessing Corecore as an Epideictic Call to Care.” b2o, “Critique as Care” special issue, May 2025.
- “Adoxastic Publics: Facebook and the Loss of Civic Strangeness,” co-authored with Jonathan S. Carter. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 108, no. 3, 2022.
- “Adoxa.” A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical Vocabulary. Edited by Michele Kennerly. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.
- “On Not Being Entitled to Bad Opinions.” Intermezzo. Co-authored with Shannon Roberson. November, 2021.
- “When One Door Closes, Another Opens; Or, Appreciating Clichés.” Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What it Means to Fail. Edited by Laura Micciche and Allison Carr. Peter Lang, 2020.
- “‘The Gods Wish More of Me’: Infrastructural Violence Between Ethics and Doxa.” Co-authored with Damien Smith Pfister. Media Ethics Magazine, vol. 30, no. 2, 2019.
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