Special Issue Title: Transcendent Nourishment, a Retrospective
Journal: Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics
Abstract: Our special issue asks where the lines among cookbook, textbook, and food studies anthologies have intersected, and how a retrospective look into how the foods of rhetorics and the rhetorics of foods have become, as a space within the field. This special issue will work as a collective to curate texts that nurture critical, cultural inquiry of food studies within the field over time–where we have been, where we are currently, and what directions might we go. In particular, we are interested in contributions that critically examine the ways in which rhetoricians have addressed food rhetorics and rhetorics of food, tracing the analytical and practical applications across time, space, and populations to influence the ways in which we come to terms with food–it’s production, manipulation, and consumption, as meaning-making moments.
Interested? Read the Full Call HERE.
Due Dates:
500 – 600 word Abstract: May 22, 2026, email to jmrfoodrhets
Accepted manuscripts: September 11, 2026
Anticipated Publication: Spring 2027 in alignment with Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics
–Emiliya Mailyan, Aurora Matzke, Consuelo Salas, Karen Tellez-Chaires