Description: A cowritten "multigraph" that began in 2018 as a reading group, this book enacts an intimate, mutualistic spirit of shared critical inquiry and play--an exciting new way of doing-thinking-feeling rhetorical studies by six prominent scholars in rhetoric from communication and English departments alike. Assuming climates to be rhetorical and rhetoric to be climatic, A Reading Group offers a framework for making sense of rhetorical studies as they grapple with the challenges posed by antiracist, decolonial, affective, ecological, and more-than-human scholarship to a tradition with a long history of being centered around individual, usually privileged, human agents wielding language as their principal instrument.
Brief description: Chris Ingraham is an associate professor of communication, and core faculty member in environmental humanities at the University of Utah. His interdisciplinary teaching and research draw on rhetorical theory, environmental communication, and media aesthetics to make sense of the many environments that humans create and inhabit. He is the author of Gestures of Concern and coeditor, with Nicholas Taylor, of LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media.