As the Associate Editor for Special Issues, I have had the very great pleasure of ushering in the last three special issues of the journal, Rhetoric Society Quarterly. The most recent issue is hot off the presses (2021; see below), and my last and final special issue (which will come out in the summer of 2022) is off and running (its title is “Global Black Rhetorics: A New Framework for Engaging African and Afro-Diasporic Rhetorical Traditions” and its editors are Ronisha Browdy and Esther Milu). Authors featured in this issue (in order of appearance) include: Maria Martin, Suban Ahmed Nur, Wonderful Faison, Shewonda Leger, Shelagh Wilson Patterson, and Angel Evans.
Check out the 2021 special issue, “Resisting Temporal Regimes, Imagining Just Temporalities,” edited by the fantastically smart and hard working Collin Bjork and Frida Buhre: RSQ, Volume 51, Issue 3 (2021). Authors featured in this issue (in order of appearance) include: Logan Rae Gomez, Diane Davis, Nomi Claire Lazar, Nathan R. Johnson, Meredith A. Johnson, Frida Buhre, Collin Bjork, and Ersula Ore.
Check out the 2020 special issue, “Disability, In/Visibility, and Risk,” edited by the exceptionally talented Jenell Johnson and Krista Kennedy: RSQ, Volume 50, Issue 3 (2020). Authors featured in this issue (in order of appearance) include: Vanessa B. Beasley, Jenell Johnson, Krista Kennedy, Lois Agnew, Christina V. Cedillo, and Melanie Yergeau.
Check out the 2019 special issue, “Rhetoric’s Demagogue/Demagoguery’s Rhetoric,” edited by the wonderfully insightful Ryan Skinnell and Jillian Murphy: RSQ, Volume 49, Issue 3 (2019). Authors featured in this issue (in order of appearance) include: Patricia Roberts-Miller, Ryan Skinnell, Jennifer R. Mercieca, CV Vitolo-Haddad, and Michael J. Steudeman.