Description: Ultimately, Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age argues that such rhetorical training shaped citizens as romantic subjects in predictably heteronormative ways and simultaneously opened up possibilities for their queer rhetorical practices.
Brief description: Pamela VanHaitsma is an assistant professor at Penn State University. The 2015 recipient of the Rhetoric Society of America's Charles Kneupper Award for an essay in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, she has also published work in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, College Composition and Communication, Peitho, College English, and Rhetoric Review, among others.
Review Quotes:
As a reader, the text was not only enjoyable, but the pages also evoked everyday queer curiosities missing and undiscovered in white Western rhetorical studies. VanHaitsma's attention to diverse learners, queer ways of being rhetorical, and queer stories of everyday people through epistolary romantic engagement is exemplary.
-- "Rhetoric & Public Affairs"