Greetings, colleagues,
Joshua Barsczewski and I are writing to announce that our edited collection – Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition – is now available to purchase Utah State University Press. We believe the discount code OLBA26 is still valid. We hope you can take a moment to buy a copy for yourself or encourage your institution or community libraries to grab one for their collections.
Adequate is our collective attempt to imagine what our work as rhetoric and composition professionals might look like when we imagine adequacy as our measure of success rather than excellence or failure.
It is our hope that this collection offers you much to think with and against and that it inspires lots of creativity and imaginative world building.
Adequate includes work by Audrey Auerbach Nelson, Lauren Marshall Bowen, Christina V. Cedillo, Crystal Colombini, Sara Doan, Malaika Fernandes, Ada Hubrig, Tenzin Jamdol, Gavin P. Johnson, Rachelle A. C. Joplin, Seth Kahn, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Ashanka Kumari, Eunjeong Lee, MaraLee Grayson, Kelin Loe, Sara P. Lopez Amezquita, Vyshali Manivannan, Katie Manthey, Brigitte Mussack, Bernice Olivas, Laurie A. Pinkert, Anthony D. Scott, Lauren Silber, Xiran Tan, Shaouxuan Tian, Amy Wan, Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Jen Wingard, Oliva Wood
We also want to make a special note to honor our cover artist Nafís M. White (@nafis_m_white over on Insta) who worked with the designers at the UP so that a detail of Nafís’ Oculus (Black, Brown, Navy, Teal), 2021 adorns our cover. This piece made with hair, embodied knowledge, ancestral recall, audacity of survival, and bobby pins is part of the permanent collection of the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT. Explore Nafís’ work and support working artists however you can.
Take good care,
Timothy Oleksiak, PhD (he/they)
Associate Professor of English
Professional & New Media Writing Program Director
We’re still learning. If we had it figured out, we wouldn’t need to be here. – Jacqueline Schiappa