Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times
opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward …

Would public meetings incite more civic engagement if they were structured in ways that are
simply more engaging? I addressed this question by conducting an original survey with an …

Politics for the Love of Fandom examines what Ashley Hinck calls “fan-based citizenship”:
civic action that blends with and arises from participation in fandom and commitment to a fan …

Educational Change and the Political Process brings together key ideas on both the system
of educational policy and the policy process in the United States. It provides students with a …

This essay offers a narrative of rhetorical field methods and intertwined climate justice
exigencies. We argue the emergence of and resistance toward rhetorical field methods …

This work of rhetorical analysis interrogates the understanding of journalism as a
deliberative instrument in democracy. With 42 in-depth interviews and hundreds of pages of …

This special issue examines intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry through
(re) introducing rhetorical fieldwork. We define rhetorical fieldwork as a set of approaches …

Using over 350 hours of observational data from district-level meetings, we investigate how
leaders support their interpretations of problems and proposed solutions during closed-door …

Public accountability through information disclosure is a pillar of modern education reform
efforts. Despite the ubiquity of this approach, we argue that public accountability in …

Using in-depth interviews and textual analyses of trust-building projects as case studies, this
research explores the links between trust and news literacy. The major contribution includes …