Food Rhetoric @ RSA2026
- Kelli R. Gill
- May 21
- 2 min read
As many scholars head to #RSA2026 this week, here’s a round-up of food-related and food adjacent research being presented this year. A human (Kelli) made this list so there are bound to be errors, so if you are presenting on food rhetorics and would like your own presentation added to this list, please contact me at kellirgill[at]gmail.com.
Yall, this list is long! No complaints here though.
Spotlight Session in Rhetorical Criticism: Food Rhetorics and In/Dignities
4:15 - 5:30pm Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Broadway 3
Speakers: Amy M Young, Justin Eckstein, Jennifer L LeMesurier, Donovan Conley, Michael Benjamin
In/Dignities of the Polycrisis: The Anthropocene as Staggered Collapse
8:00 - 9:15am Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Duniway - Capt. Gray 2
Speakers: Byron Hawk, John Purfield, Kelsey Chapates, Ian Campbell, Ira Allen
In/Dignity and Indigenous Breastfeeding: Rematriating Relational Infant Feeding Rhetorics through Storytelling
9:30 - 10:45am Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Broadway 2
Speaker: Tara Knight
Recognizing Indigenous Dignity: Bringing Indigenous Material Rhetorics into the Classroom
9:30 - 10:45am Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Galleria 2
Speaker: Yavanna M Brownlee
Rhetorics of Care + Care-full Rhetoric
9:30 - 10:45am Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Grand Ballroom 1
Speakers: Erin D McClellan, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Millicent Elewosi, Pamela Pietrucci, Joaquin Torre
Wellness as Topoi in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
11:00am - 12:15pm Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Duniway - Capt. Gray 2
Speakers: Meredith A. Johnson, Nathan R. Johnson, Paula Mathieu, Justin Eckstein, Catherine Gouge
Dignified Labor: The Legibility (and Performativity) of Feminized Labor
through Technologies
2:45 - 4:00pm Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Duniway - Capt. Gray 2
Speakers: Kelsey Alexander, Megan Zahay, Grace Boulanger, Sarah Lawler
Rhetorical Sustainability: Distributions of Rhetorical Energy in Cajun
South Louisiana
2:45 - 4:00pm Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Broadway 2
Speaker: Tyler Martinez
Multisensory Critical Rhetorics of Place and Home
2:45 - 4:00pm Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Studio
Speakers: Jonathan W Stone, Nathan Wood, Sabiha Ahmad Khan, Bryan Picciotto
Authoritative Blurring: Homesteading, Aesthetics, and Opacity
2:45 - 4:00pm Friday, 22nd May, 2026
Location Parlor B
Speaker: Marissa B Jones
Of Rituals and Rites/Rights
8:00 - 9:15am Saturday, 23rd May, 2026
Location Pavilion West
Speakers: Jackson Tucker, Meg Hultgren, Jimmy Hamill, Timothy Oleksiak
Translation as Rhetorical Mediation: Our Hunger for Justice in the Age of Gen-AI
Nancy Bou Ayash 9:30 - 10:45am Saturday, 23rd May, 2026
Location Pavilion West
Rhetorics of Health through UnMedicine: Purity, Filth, Dignity, and Ableism in Right-Wing Digital Communities
11:00am - 12:15pm Saturday, 23rd May, 2026
Location Parlor B
Speaker: Anwen Jones
The Indignity of Farming in White Ecologies: Precarity in the Hyperobject of Industrial Food Systems
8:00 - 9:15am Sunday, 24th May, 2026
Location Pavilion East
Speaker: Michael Gallaway
Living Like Their Ancestors: Homesteading Tradwives, Settler Colonialism, and Gendered Conservative Aesthetics
8:00 - 9:15am Sunday, 24th May, 2026
Location Executive
Speaker: Emma E Newton
