Unruly Rhetorics

An edited volume on unruly, activist rhetorics that aims to expand, complicate, and enrich rhetoric and composition's uptake of public rhetorics through focused attention on the body as a powerful rhetorical tool whose importance may be enhanced but is not eclipsed by new media forms and forums for public discourse and dissent.

Jonathan Alexander (Editor) Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication and currently directs the Humanities Core Program. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of twenty-two books, and in 2023 he was given the Exemplar Award by the Conference on College Composition in Communication in recognition of career achievements.

Susan C. Jarratt (Editor) Susan C. Jarratt is professor emerita in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine and editor of the journal Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2016-19).

Nancy Welch (Editor) Nancy Welch is professor of English at the University of Vermont where she teaches classes in public writing, fiction writing, and social movement rhetorics. She is also the coordinator of the UVM Graduate Writing Center.