Bibliography
As an interdisciplinary topic, scholarship on food and rhetoric often spans across different journals, conferences, and fields making it difficult to locate. This bibliography is a working-reading list for those interested in digging into food rhetorics. The goal of this reading list is to be inclusive to any writing useful for scholars, teachers, and students. This list will be particularly useful for graduate students creating exam lists focused on food studies.
Publications were collected from major disciplinary journals in rhetoric and composition using the keyterms: food, recipe, cook, eat, and foodways. Publications from interdisciplinary food studies journals were found by searching keyterms: rhetoric, composition, writing, cookbook, foodways, recipe, and texts. If there is a reading you recommend (including your own work!) you can add the reading via this googlesheet.
This list is a work in progress. All titles link to the publication or an open-access copy of the text. If you lack institutional access, feel free to email a request for a copy of the publication.
Title | Author | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
The Good Body, Skilled in Eating | Donovan Conley | 2013 | Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory |
Love in the Time of Global Warming | Mark Stern | 2013 | Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory |
The Organic Libertarian: How Deregulation Should Benefit Small Farms | Eric Reuter | 2013 | Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory |
Rhetorical Theory in the Light of Food: The Meaning of Authority in Top Chef Masters | Roland Clark Brooks | 2013 | Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory |
Healthy Living: Metaphors We Eat By? | Spoel et al. | 2012 | Present Tense |
Eliza Leslie's 1854 The Behaviour Book and the Conduct of Women's Writing | Alexandria Peary | 2012 | Rhetoric Review |
Framing the Megarhetorics of Agricultural Development: Industrialized Agriculture and Sustainable Agriculture | Eileen E. Schell | 2012 | Megarhetorics of Globalized Development published with University of Pittsburgh Press |
V is for Voices: Engaging Student Interest, Sustaining Student Thinking and Writing in Today’s Writing Classrooms with Fountainhead Press’s V Series | Amy Patrick Mossman | 2012 | Composition Forum |
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century | Katherine Leonard Turner | 2012 | University of California Press |
Think Global, Eat Local: Teaching Alternative Agrarian Literacy in a Globalized Age | Eileen E. Schell | 2012 | Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, published by Lexington Books |
The moralization of healthy living: Burke’s rhetoric of rebirth and older adults’ accounts of healthy eating | Philippa Spoel, Roma Harris, Flis Henwood | 2012 | Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness, and Medicine |
“Wellness” as Incipient Illness: Dietary Supplements in a Biomedical Culture | Colleen Derkatch | 2012 | Present Tense |
