Kairos

Current Issue

Call for Reviews

Kairos, a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy, is actively seeking reviews of technologies (social networking and research tools, learning platforms, etc.) and nonprint as well as print texts. Initial query emails should be sent to the Reviews Co-Editors Ashanka Kumari (ashankakumari@gmail.com) and Jonathan Marine (jonathanmmarine@gmail.com). The query should, in 250–300 words, include the title of the text or webtext under consideration, a brief explanation of why you believe you have the background knowledge to review this text, and a description of your initial ideas regarding your review webtext's design. A CV should also be attached.

We want to encourage reviewers to remember that Kairos reviews are innovative in form as well as content, and we promote alternative modes of reviewing texts, such as video or audio (e.g. podcasts, sonic rhetoric projects, interviews). For video reviews, authors are welcomed to mix together their own original filmed material with other audio, video, and still imagery elements to create a compelling and intriguing review. For audio reviews, reviewers are encouraged to compose podcast reviews. When considering multimodal elements to include, please consult Kairos's copyright policies, style guide, and technical specifications. Along with single-text reviews, the Reviews section also publishes review essays—usually lengthier, more in-depth analyses of multiple texts focused around a unifying idea. Queries for this type of review are also encouraged. Traditional reviews in the form of word documents are not a good fit for Kairos and instead should think about how the form of the review reinforces the content in both rhetoric and design.

Kairos also encourages the review of various technologies, pedagogical resources, or other digital tools and projects as they relate to issues of rhetoric, pedagogy, and technology. Such examples might include vvideo games, software, curations, archives, or other digital tools. These reviews should also offer explicit takeaways for Kairos audiences. Please reach out to the editors for any ideas you may have concerning an experimental review genre.

We are also seeking reviews of the following print and online texts:

• NEW! Adams, Heather Brook, & Nancy Myers. (Eds.) (2024). Inclusive aims: Rhetoric’s role in reproductive justice. Parlor Press.
• Alexander, Kara Poe, Davis Matthew, Mina, Lillian W., & Shepherd, Ryan P. (Eds.). (2024). Multimodal composing and writing transfer. Utah State University Press.
• Ames, Melissa, & McDuffie, Kristi. (Eds.). (2023). Hashtag activism interrogated and embodied: Case studies on social justice movements. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Anderson, Lora. (Ed.) (2024). Rewriting work. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Applegarth, Risa. (2024). Just kids: Youth activism and rhetorical agency. The Ohio State University Press.
• Arnold, Taylor, & Tilton, Lauren. (2023). Distant viewing: Computational exploration of digital images. The MIT Press
• Baillot, Anne. (2023). From handwriting to footprinting: Text and heritage in the age of climate crisis. Open Book Publishers.
• NEW! Baniya, Sweta. (2024). Transnational assemblages: Social justice and crisis communication during disaster. National Council of Teachers of English; The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Bazerman, Charles. (2024). How I became the writer I became. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Bazerman, Charles. (2025). Unfinished business: Thoughts on the past, present, future, and nurturing of Homo Scribens. University Press of Colorado & The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Becker, Matthias J., Ascone, Laura, Placzynta, Karolina, & Vincent, Chloé. (Eds.) (2024). Antisemitism in online communication: Transdisciplinary approaches to hate speech in the twenty-first century. Open Book Publishers.
• Bernard-Donals, Michael. (2023). The vulnerability of public higher education. The Ohio State University Press.
• NEW! Bivens, Kristin Marie. (2024). A history of rhetoric, sound, and health and healing. Routledge.
• Bloomfield, Emma Frances. (2024). Science v. story: Narrative strategies for science communicators. University of California Press.
• Borgman, Jessie, & McArdle, Casey (Eds.). (2023). PARS in charge: Resources and strategies for online writing program leaders. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Buck, Amber M. (2023). Writing on the social network: Digital literacy practices in social media’s first decade. Utah State University Press.
• Butts, Jimmy. (2023). Strangely rhetorical: Composing differently with novelty devices. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Carradini, Stephen, & Swarts, Jason. (2024). Text at scale: Corpus analysis in technical communication. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Carson, A.D. (2024). Owning my masters (mastered): The rhetorics of rhymes & revolutions. University of Michigan Press.
• Carter, Genesea M., & Matzke, Aurora (Eds.). (2023). Systems shift: Creating and navigating change in rhetoric and composition administration. The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado.
• NEW! Chan, Anita Say. (2025). Predatory data: Eugenics in big tech and our fight for an independent future. University of California Press.
• NEW! Cicchino, Amy, & Hicks, Troy. (Eds.). (2025). Better practices: Exploring the teaching of writing in online and hybrid spaces. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Ciula, Arianna, Eide, Øyvind, Marras, Cristina, Sahle, Patrick. (2024). Modelling between digital and humanities: Thinking in practice. Open Book Publishers.
• Clark, Erin. (2024). Feminist technical communication: Apparent feminisms, slow crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Utah State University Press.
• Craig, Todd. (2023). ‘K for the way’: DJ rhetoric and literacy for 21st century writing studies. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Cohen, Matt, Price, Kenneth M., & Bernardini, Caterina. (2025). Futures of digital scholarly editing. University of Minnesota Press.
• NEW! Comstock, Michelle, & Hocks, Mary. (2024). Composing resonance: Culture & collaboration in sonic practices. Parlor Press.
• NEW!Corbett, Steven J. (2024). If at first you don’t succeed? Writing, rhetoric, and the question of failure. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Corbett, Steven J., Decker, Teagan E., & Young, Maria L. Soriano (Eds.). (2023). Writing centers and learning commons: Staying centered while sharing common ground. Utah State University.
• Croxall, Brian, & Jakacki, Diane K. (2023). What we teach when we teach DH: Digital humanities in the classroom. University of Minnesota Press.
• Del Hierro, Victor, & VanKooten, Crystal. (2023). Methods and methodologies for research in digital writing and rhetoric. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• DePalma, Michael-John, Lynch, Paul, & Ringer, Jeff (Eds.). (2023). Rhetoric and religion in the twenty-first century: Pluralism in a postsecular age. Southern Illinois University Press.
• Dhaliwal, Ranjodh Singh, & Lepage-Richer, Théo, and Suchman, Lucy. (2024). Neural networks. University of Minnesota Press.
• NEW! Dippre, Ryan J., & Phillips, Tallinn. (Eds.) (2024). Improvisations: Methods and methodologies in lifespan writing research. The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado.
• NEW! Dippre, Ryan J. (2024). Burnin’ daylight: Building a principle-driven writing program. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Dubreuil, Laurent. (2025). Humanities in the time of AI. University of Minnesota Press.
• NEW! Dyke, Erin, & Muckian-Bates, Brendan. (2024). Rank-and-file rebels: Theories of power and change in the 2018 education strikes. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Endres, Danielle. (2023). Nuclear decolonization: Indigenous resistance to high-level nuclear waste siting. The Ohio State University Press.
• NEW! Falconer, Heather M. & McClary, LaKeisha. (Eds.). (2024). Inclusive STEM: Transforming disciplinary writing instruction for a socially just future. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Faris, Michael J., Danforth, Courtney S., Stedman, Kyle D. (Eds.). (2023). Amplifying songwriting pedagogies: Integrating sound into rhetoric and writing. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Ferrari, Elisabetta. (2024). Appropriate, negotiate, challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies. University of California Press.
• NEW! Fiscus-Cannaday, Jaclyn. (2025). Reflection-in-motion: Reimagining reflection in the writing classroom. Utah State University Press.
• Fishman, Jenn, and Hea, Amy C. Kimme (Eds.). (2023). Telling stories: Perspectives on longitudinal writing research. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Fishman, Jenn, García, Romeo, & Rosenberg, Lauren. (Eds.). (2025). Community listening: Stories, hauntings, possibilities. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Flowers, Katherine S. (2024). Making English official: Writing and resisting local language policies. Cambridge University Press.
• NEW! Flower, Linda. (2025). Outcomes of engaged education: From transfer to transformation. University Press of Colorado & The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! George, Ann, & M. Elizabeth Weiser. (Eds.) (2023). In the classroom with Kenneth Burke. Parlor Press.
• NEW! Gerrard, Ysabel. (2025). The kids are online: Confronting the myths and realities of young digital life. University of California Press.
• Giaimo, Genie Nicole. (2023). Unwell writing centers: Searching for wellness in neoliberal educational institutions and beyond. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Giaimo, Genie Nicole, & Lawson, Daniel. (Eds.). (2024). Storying writing center labor for anti-capitalist futures. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Gilmore, James N. (2025). Bringers of order: Wearable technologies and the manufacturing of everyday life. University of California Press.
• Giordano, Joanne Baird, Hassel, Holly, Heinert, Jennifer, & Phillips, Cassandra (Eds.). (2024). Reading all writers: A pedagogical guide for evolving college writing classrooms. Utah State University Press.
• Green, Jacob. (2023). Composing place: Digital rhetorics for a mobile world. Utah State University Press.
• Grouling, Jennifer. (2023). Adapting VALUEs: Tracing the life of a rubric through institutional ethnography. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Gruwell, Leigh, & Lesh, Charles N. (Eds.). (2024). Mentorship/Methodology: Reflections, praxis, futures. Utah State University Press.
• Gustavson, Andi, & Nunes, Charlotte (Eds.). (2023). Transforming the authority of the archive: Undergraduate pedagogy and critical digital archives. Lever Press.
• Hall, Jonathan, & Horner, Bruce (Eds.). (2023). Toward a transnational university: WAC/WID across borders of language, nation, and discipline. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Hankins, Gabriel, Lang, Anouk, & Appleford, Simon. (Eds.) (2024). Digital futures of graduate study in the humanities. University of Minnesota Press.
• Hawhee, Debra. (2023). A sense of urgency: How the climate crisis is changing rhetoric. The University of Chicago Press.
• Hesse, Douglas, & Julier, Laura (Eds.). (2023). Nonfiction, the teaching of writing, and the influence of Richard Lloyd-Jones. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Hill, Annie. (2024). Trafficking rhetoric: Race, migration, and the making of modern-day slavery. The Ohio State University Press.
• NEW! Holmes, Ashley J. & Hurley, Elise Verzosa. (Eds.). (2025). Learning from the mess: Method/ological praxis in rhetoric and writing studies. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Horning, Alice S. (2024). The case for critical literacy: The history of reading in writing studies. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Hui, Yuk. (2024). Machine and sovereignty: For a planetary thinking. University of Minnesota Press.
• NEW! Inoue, Asao B. (2024). Cripping labor-based grading for more equity in literacy courses. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Inoue, Asao B., & Bailey, Kristin DeMint (Eds.). (2024). Narratives of joy and failure in antiracist assessment: Exploring collaborative writing assessments. The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado.
• Iverson, Christopher, & Ehrenfeld, Don. (Eds.). (2023). Processes: Writing across academic careers. Milne Open Textbooks.
• Jackson, Phoebe, & Weaver, Christopher (Eds.). (2024). Rethinking peer review: Critical reflections on a pedagogical practice. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Jagoda, Patrick, Bennet, Ireashia, & Sparrow, Ashlyn. (2023). Transmedia stories: Narrative methods for public health and social justice. https://transmediastories.org/
• Jensen, Darin, & Griffiths, Brett (Eds.). (2023). Two-year college writing studies: Rationale and praxis for just teaching. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Kelly, Megan J., Falconer, Heather M., González, Caleb Lee, & Dahlman, Jill. (Eds.) (2024). Adapting the past to reimagine possible futures: Celebrating and critiquing WAC at 50. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Kelly-Riley, Diane, Macklin, Ti, & Whithaus, Carl. (Eds.). (2024). Considering students, teachers, and writing assessment Volumes 1 & 2. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Khadka, Santosh, & Pandey, Shyam B (Eds.). (2023). Professionalizing multimodal composition. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Kimball, Miles A. & Ross, Derek G. (2025). Document design: From process to product in professional communication. Second edition. SUNY Press.
• King, Claire Sisco. (2023). Mapping the stars: Celebrity, metonymy, and the networked politics of identity. The Ohio State University Press.
• Kirsch, Gesa E., Garcia, Romeo, Burns Allen, Caitlin, & Smith, Walker P. (Eds.). (2023). Unsettling archival research: Engaging critical, communal, and digital archives. Southern Illinois University Press.
• NEW! Kleinfeld, Elizabeth, Lee, Sohui, & Prebel, Julie. (Eds.) (2024). Disruptive stories: Amplifying voices from the writing center margins. Utah State University Press.
• Köseoğlu, Suzan, Veletsianos, George, & Rowell, Chris. (Eds.). (2023). Critical digital pedagogy in higher education. Athabasca University Press.
• Kruse, Otto, Rapp, Christian, Anson, Chris M., Benetos, Kalliopi, Cotos, Elena, Devitt, Ann, & Shibani, Antonette (Eds.). (2023). Digital writing technologies in higher education: Theory, research, practice. Springer.
• LaFrance, Michelle & Nicolas, Melissa (Eds.). (2024). Institutional ethnography as writing studies practice. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Lee, Sohui, and Russell Carpenter. (2023). Design for composition: Inspiration for creative visual and multimodal projects. Parlor Press.
• LaVecchia, Christina, Carr, Allison, Micciche, Laura R., Rule, Hannah J., & Stone, Jayne E. O. (Eds.). (2024). Revising moves: Writing stories of (re)making. Utah State University Press.
• Lewis, Tyson E., & Hyland, Peter B. (2022). Studious drift: Movements and protocols for a postdigital education. University of Minnesota Press.
• Macaulay, William, Anglesey, Leslie, Edwards, Brady, Lanbrecht, Kathryn, & Lovas, Phillip (Eds.) (2023). Threshold conscripts: Rhetoric and composition teaching assistantships. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Mahmoudi, Matt. (2025). Migrants in the digital periphery: New urban frontiers of control. University of California Press.
• Maragh-Lloyd, Raven. (2024). Black networked resistance: Strategic rearticulations in the digital age. University of California Press.
• Martins, David S., Schreiber, Brooke R., You, Xiaoye. (Eds.). (2023). Writing on the wall: Writing education and resistance to isolationism. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Mauer, Barry, & Anastasia Salter. (Eds.) (2023). Reimagining the humanities. Parlor Press.
• McCabe, Rachel, & Juszkiewicz, Jennifer. (2023). Composition & rhetoric in contentious times. Utah State University Press.
• McNely, Brian J. (2024). Engaging ambience: Visual and multisensory methodologies and rhetorical theory. Utah State University Press.
• Michaud, Michael J. (2024). A writer reforms (the teaching of) writing: Donald Murray and the writing process movement, 1963–1987. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Moss, Beverly J. (2024). A community text arises: A literature text and a literacy tradition in African-American churches. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Morrison, Talisha Haltiwanger, & Garriott, Deidre Anne Evans (Eds.). (2023). Writing centers & racial justice: A guidebook for critical praxis. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Moses, Joe, & Jason Tham. (Eds.) (2023). Writing to learn in teams: A collaborative writing playbook for students across the curriculum. Parlor Press.
• NEW! Nagy, Jeff, & the DISCO Network. (2024). Technoskepticism: Between possibility and refusal. Stanford University Press.
• Nastal, Jessica, Poe, Mya, & Toth, Christie (Eds.). (2023). Writing placement in two-year colleges: The pursuit of equity in postsecondary education. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Ngo, Bic. (2024). Re-membering culture: Erasure and renewal in Hmong American education. University of Minnesota Press.
• Nowacek, Rebecca S., Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca, Rounsaville, Angela. (2024). Writing knowledge transfer: Theory, research, pedagogy. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Owens, Kim Hensley, & Van Ittersum, Derek (Eds.). (2023). Beyond productivity: Embodied, situated, and (un)balanced faculty writing processes. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Parks, Stephen J. (2024). “The wrong side of privilege.” Advocacy, community, and politics: The collected essays of Stephen J. Parks, 2000-2020. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmet. (2022). Geoengineering, persuasion, and the climate crisis: A geologic rhetoric. The University of Alabama Press.
• Pickering, Kristin D. (2024). Environmental preservation and the Grey Cliffs Conflict: Negotiating common narratives, values, and ethos. Utah State University Press.
• Phillips, Lisa L., Warren-Riley, Sarah, & Collins Bates, Julie. (2024). Grassroots activisms: Public rhetorics in localized contexts. The Ohio State University Press.
• Price, Margaret. (2024). Crip spacetime: Access, failure, and accountability in academic life. Duke University Press.
• NEW! Rahman, Hatim A. (2024). Inside the invisible cage: How algorithms control workers. University of California Press.
• Ramsay, Stephen. (2023). On the digital humanities: Essays and provocations. University of Minnesota Press.
• Rivera, Nora K. (2024). The rhetorical mediator: Understanding agency in Indigenous translation and interpretation through Indigenous approaches to UX. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Rhodes, Jacqueline, & Nur Cooley, Suban. (2025). The Routledge handbook of contemporary feminist rhetoric. Routledge.
• NEW! Richards, Rebecca. (2024). Not playing around: Feminist and queer rhetorics in videogames. Parlor Press.
• Rogers, Paul M., Russell, David R., Carlino, Paula, & Marine, Jonathan M. (Eds.). Writing as human activity: Implications and applications of the work of Charles Bazerman. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Ruecker, Todd, & Carter-Tod, Sheila. (Eds.). (2025). WPA-ing in a pandemic and beyond: Revision, innovation, and advocacy. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Sadowski, Jathan. (2025). The mechanic and the luddite: A ruthless criticism of technology and capitalism. University of California Press.
• Samuels, Robert. (2023). A working model for contingent faculty. University Press of Colorado.
• NEW! Shivener, Rich. (2024). Living digital media: Rhetorical-affective practices in circulation. Computers and Composition Digital Press.
• NEW! Snelson, Daniel Scott. (2025). The little database: A poetics of media formats. University of Minnesota Press.
• Sparby, Derek M. (2023). Memetic rhetorics: Toward a toolkit for ethical making. University of Michigan Press.
• Starkey, David (Ed.). (2023). Teaching accelerated & corequisite composition. Utah State University Press.
• Steele, Catherine Knight, Lu, Jessica H., & Winstead, Kevin C. (2023). Doing Black digital humanities with radical intentionality. Routledge.
• NEW! Tham, Jason. (Ed.) (2024). Keywords in making: A rhetorical primer. Parlor Press.
• NEW! Tekobbe, Cindy. (2024). Indigenous voices in digital spaces. Utah State University Press.
• NEW! Tilton, Lauren, Mimno, David, & Johnson, Jessica Marie. (2024). Computational humanities. University of Minnesota Press.
• Tseptura, Mariya, & Ruecker, Todd (Eds.). (2024). Nonnative English-speaking teachers of U.S. college composition: Exploring identities and negotiating differences. The WAC Clearinghouse.
• NEW! Tumino, Stephen. (2024). Thinking blue / writing red: Marxism and the (post)human. Open Book Publishers.
• Van de Poel, Ibo, Frank, Lily Eva, Hermann, Julia, Hopster, Jeroen, Lenzi, Dominic, Nyholm, Sven, Taebi, Behnam, & Ziliotti, Elena. (2023). Ethics of socially disruptive technologies: An introduction. Open Book Publishers.
• NEW! Wang, Zhaozhe. (2024). Doing difference differently: Chinese international students’ literacy practices and affordances. Utah State University Press.
• Weizsäcker, Georg. (2024). Misunderstandings: False beliefs in communication. Open Book Publishers.
• Wetzel, Grace. (2023). Rhetorical education in turn-of-the-century U.S. women’s journalism. Southern Illinois University Press.
• NEW! White-Farnham, Molloy, Cathryn, & Siegel Finer, Bryna. (Eds.). (2025). Confronting toxic rhetoric: Writing teachers’ experiences of rupture, resistance, and resilience. Peter Lang.
• NEW! Whithaus, Carl. (2025). Swarms, viral writing, and the local: Rhetorical dynamics across networked publics. University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Yood, Jessica. (2024). The composition commons: Writing a new idea of the university. Utah State University Press.
• You, Xiaoye. (2023). Genre networks and empire: Rhetoric in early imperial China. Southern Illinois University Press.
• Young, Sarah. (2023). Working through surveillance and technical communication: Concepts and connections. SUNY Press.
• Yu, Han, & Buehl, Jonathan (Eds.). (2023). Keywords in technical and professional communication. The WAC Clearinghouse.