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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
Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production
Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein (editors)
2020
The University of Alabama Press
Food Blogs, Postfeminism, and the Communication of Expertise
Alane L. Presswood
2019
Lexington Books
Reciprocity in Community-Engaged Food and Environmental Justice Scholarship
Dawn S. Opel and Donnie Johnson Sackey
2019
Community Literacy Journal
Sound Never Tasted So Good: "Teaching" Sensory Rhetorics
Steph Ceraso
2019
Intermezzo
School Vegetable Gardens As a Site for Reciprocity in Food Systems Research: An Example from Cape Town, South Africa
Jo Hunter-Adams
2019
Community Literacy Journal
La salud en mis manos: Localizing Health and Wellness Literacies in Transnational Communities through Participatory Mindfulness and Art-Based Projects
Flores-Hutson et al.
2019
Present Tense
The Food Justice Portrait Project: First-Year Writing Curriculum to Support Community Agency and Social Justice
Ruth Cary
2019
Reflections
Nutrition, Health, and Wellness at La Escuelita: A Community-Driven Effort Toward Food and Environmental Justice
Del Hierro et al
2019
Community Literacy Journal
Foreign Kitchens, Foreign Lands: Middle Eastern Foodsheds for American Consumers
Jennifer M. Dueck
2019
Global Food History
Food Memoirs: Agency in Public and Private Rhetorical Domains
Kayla Bruce
2019
Peitho
The Digital Sensorium: Considering the Senses in Website Design
Nathaniel T. Voeller
2019
Computers and Composition
Keeping with: The Civic Work of Heritage Claims
Jonathan L. Bradshaw
2019
Rhetoric Review

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

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