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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
Cultivating Legitimacy as a Farmer
Abby M. Dubisar
2021
Community Literacy Journal
Epistemic Certainty Surrounding Dietary Recommendations for Meat
Ellen M. Street
2021
Xchanges
Social Media Influencer Rhetoric and The Domestication of Health at Every Size on Instagram
Mariah L. Wellman
2021
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
The Rhetoric of Vegan/Vegetarianism, and Health, Medicine, and Culture
Erin Trauth, Vasile Stanescu, Susan Levin, Carrie P. Freeman, Laura Wright, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
2021
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
“More Resilient than Concrete and Steel”: Consciousness-Raising, Self-Discipline, and Bodily Resistance in Solitary Confinement
Chris S. Earle
2020
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Mexican Food, Assimilation, and Middle-Class Mexican Americans or Chicanx
Jaime Armin Mejía
2020
Latinx Writing and Rhetoric Studies
How to (News) feed a Crowd: Transformation and Collaboration in Digital Food Communities
Kelli R. Gill
2020
Trace
No Mere Culinary Curiosities: Using Historical Cookbooks in the Library Classroom
Kathryn G. Matheny
2020
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
Recipes for/of Subversion: The Rhetorical Strategies of The Suffrage Cookbook
Lisa Mastrangelo
2020
Peitho
More than a Sandwich: Developing an Inclusive Summer Lunch Literacy Program in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Cell et al.
2020
Reflections
Food for Thought: Constructing Multimodal Identities through Recipe-Creation with Homeless Youth
Amanda Hill
2020
Community Literacy Journal
“An American Orphan”: Amelia Simmons, Cookbook Authorship, and the Feminist Ethē
Elizabeth J. Fleitz
2020
Peitho

Food Rhetoric: A scholarly resource devoted to food, rhetoric, composition and everything in-between. 

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