Rhetoric & Public Address Journals

	Advances in the History of Rhetoric Advances in the History of Rhetoric, the annual publication of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, welcomes contributions from all scholars who take a historical approach to the study of rhetoric. In particular, Advances publishes scholarship on all historical aspects of rhetoric, in all historical periods, and with reference to all intellectual, national, and cultural communities.	Current editor: Robert Gaines, University of Maryland

	American Communication Journal The American Communication Journal is a completely online, blind-reviewed publication, dedicated to the conscientious analysis and criticism of significant communicative artifacts. Appreciating the diversity of research agendas and methodologies in the study of communication, the Co-Editors and Editorial Board of ACJ welcome submissions on any topic related to the discipline.	Current Editor: Robert S. Fortner, Calvin College

	Argumentation & Advocacy Argumentation and Advocacy, the flagship journal of the American Forensic Association, invites submissions dealing with any aspect of argumentation students including argumentation theory, public argument, critical and cultural perspectives, and forensics and pedagogy.	Current editor: Randall Lake, University of Southern California

	Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies publishes scholarship for an international readership on communication as a theory, practice, technology, and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic boundaries to focus on social, political, and cultural practices from the standpoint of communication.	Current editor: Robert Ivie, Indiana University Incoming editor (2007): John Sloop, Vanderbilt University

	Communication Quarterly Communication Quarterly, a scholarly, academic journal sponsored by the Eastern Communication (ECA) publishes refereed manuscripts extending the understanding of human communication. Communication Quarterly is philosophically committed to an eclectic approach and to the publication of high quality articles.	Current editor: Janette Kenner Muir, New Century College/George Mason University

	Communication Studies Communication Studies is committed to publishing high-quality original scholarship focused centrally on human communication processes. Articles published in Communication Studies should represent the diversity of scholarship that composes the study of human communication, regardless of philosophical, theoretical, or methodological underpinnings. Published essays and reports of studies should make important and noteworthy contributions to the advancement of human communication scholarship.	Current editor: William Benoit, University of Missouri

	Critical Studies in Media Communication Critical Studies in Media Communication is a forum for cross-disciplinary scholarship treating issues related to mediated communication. We welcome a broad range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the analysis of mass media institutions, histories, technologies, and messages, including the intersections of mass media and culture. Mediated communication includes print and broadcast media, film, video, and new media forms such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. Manuscripts submitted to CSMC should be analytical and interpretative rather than simply descriptive; successful manuscripts should make a unique critical statement and should contribute substantially to existing bodies of knowledge.	Current co-editors:Linda Steiner, University of Maryland Incoming editor: Eric King Watts, University of North Carolina

	Free Speech Yearbook Free Speech Yearbook embraces the full range of critical, historical, empirical, descriptive and combinations of scholarly methods. Approaches that explore interdisciplinary and international issues of free and responsible speech, press, media law, regulation and policy, press freedoms and governance of new media are also welcome. Submissions should follow MLA style (5th edition). All submissions to FSY undergo blind review by at least two editorial board members. Final manuscripts must be submitted in MS Word format (for PC). Digital submissions are now accepted.	Current editor: James Arnt Aune, Texas A&M University

	KB Journal KB Journal will publish original scholarship that addresses, applies, repurposes, or challenges the teachings of Kenneth Burke, which include but are not limited to the major books and hundreds of articles by Burke, as well as the growing corpus of research material about Burke. It provides an outlet for integrating and critiquing the gamut of studies in communication, composition, English, gender, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and technical writing. Nurturing interdisciplinary understanding, development, and community among the different areas, KB Journal’s goal, ultimately, is to build some stable knowledge to foster a better world.	Current co-editors: Mark E. Huglen, University of Minnesota, Crookston & Clarke Rountree, University of Alabama, Huntsville

	Philosophy & Rhetoric For over 25 years, Philosophy and Rhetoric has published some of the most influential articles on relations between philosophy and rhetoric. Topics include the connections between logic and rhetoric, the philosophical aspects of argumentation (including argumentation in philosophy itself), philosophical views on the nature of rhetoric among historical figures and during historical periods, philosophical analyses of the relation to rhetoric of other areas of human culture and thought, and psychological and sociological studies of rhetoric with a strong philosophical emphasis.	Current editor: Gerard Hauser, University of Colorado

	Political Communication Political Communication is an interdisciplinary, international journal, published quarterly, that features cutting-edge research at the intersection of politics and communication, broadly conceived. Its expansive subject is the site of rapid changes and pressing policy concerns worldwide. The journal welcomes all research methods and analytical viewpoints that advance understanding of the practices, processes, and policy implications of political communication in all its forms. Regular symposium issues explore key issues in depth.	Current editor: David L. Paletz, Duke University

	Popular Communication This journal provides a forum for the scholarly investigation, analysis, and dialogue on communication symbols, forms, phenomena, and strategic systems of symbols within the context of contemporary popular culture. Popular Communication publishes articles on all aspects of popular communication texts, artifacts, audiences, events, and practices, including the Internet, youth culture, representation, fandom, film, sports, spectacles, the digital revolution, sexuality, advertising/consumer culture, television, radio, music, magazines, and dance. The journal welcomes diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives within the tradition of cultural studies.	Current editors: Sharon R. Mazzarella, Clemson University Norma Pecora, Ohio University

	Qualitative Research Reports in Communication Qualitative Research Reports in Communication welcomes qualitative and critical research essays of 2500 words or less (not counting references), on a wide variety of topics related to human communication. Papers appropriate for the journal include studies of intercultural, interpersonal, instructional, mediated, nonverbal, organizational, persuasive, political, relational, or rhetorical communication.	Current editor: Susan Drucker, Hofstra University

	Quarterly Journal of Speech The Quarterly Journal of Speech, published in February, May, August and November, includes articles, research reports, and book reviews of interest to persons across a broad spectrum of the communication arts. QJS tends to be humanistic in its orientation. QJS invites research that is original, significant, and designed to further understanding of the processes of human communication, particularly in its rhetorical and cultural dimensions. Essays in the journal generally consider the theory and criticism of situated discourse in its various forms and venues, including the oral and written, public and private, direct and mediated, historical and contemporary.	Current editor: David Henry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Incoming editor: John Louis Lucaites, Indiana University

	The Review of Communication The Review of Communication is a quarterly journal of the National Communication Association. The Review of Communication publishes book reviews, essay reviews, reviews of literature, research articles on academic inquiry and publication in communication. The Review of Communication reviews books in all fields of human communication, including scholarly books, textbooks, and appropriate trade books.	Current editor: Raymie McKerrow, Ohio University

	Rhetoric & Public Affairs Rhetoric & Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the history, theory, and criticism of public discourse. Published quarterly, the journal explores the traditional arenas of rhetorical investigation including executive leadership, diplomacy, political campaigns, judicial and legislative deliberations, and public policy debate. Critical, analytical, or interpretive essays that examine particular instances of symbolic inducement in any historical period are welcome. Of special interest are manuscripts that explore the nexus of rhetoric, politics, and ethics — the worlds of persuasion, power, and social values as they meet in the crucible of public debate and deliberation.	Current editor: Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University

	Rhetoric Review Rhetoric Review is a scholarly interdisciplinary journal publishing in all areas of rhetoric and writing and providing a professional forum for its readers to consider and discuss current topics and issues. The journal publishes manuscripts that explore the breadth and depth of the discipline, including history, theory, writing, praxis, technical/professional communication, philosophy, rhetorical criticism, cultural studies, multiple literacies, technology, literature, public address, graduate education, and professional issues.	Current editor: Theresa Enos, University of Arizona

	Rhetoric Society Quarterly Rhetoric Society Quarterly is published in the months of January, April, July, and October by the Rhetoric Society of America. Article-length manuscripts on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy are invited. Announcements of conferences, calls for papers, and other events of interest to rhetoricians are invited also. Readers of RSQ are rhetoricians working in communication, composition, English, history, philosophy, politics, speech, and other allied fields. Consequently, RSQ publishes work that articulates for these rhetoricians matters that advance a shared understanding of a multi-disciplinary field.	Current editor: Gregory Clark, Brigham Young University Incoming editor: Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University

	Rhetorica Rhetorica publishes articles, book reviews, and bibliographies which further the aims of the Society as stated in its Constitution (Article Two): "The purpose of this society is to promote the study of both the theory and the practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and its relationships with poetics, philosophy, politics, religion, law, and other aspects of the cultural context." Official languages of the Society are English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish.	Current editor: Harvey Yunis, Rice University

	Southern Communication Journal The Southern Communication Journal publishes original scholarship that makes significant contributions to understanding human communication. The journal is not limited with regard to topic or context, methodological approach, or theoretical perspective, although submitted manuscripts must establish the significance of the topic, soundness of the methodology, and appropriateness of the theoretical perspective. We seek to publish manuscripts that will be of general interest to scholars, researchers, teachers, and practitioners across the communication field.	Current editor: John Meyer, University of Southern Mississippi

	Western Journal of Communication The Western Journal of Communication, published quarterly since 1937, is one of two scholarly journals of the Western States Communication Association (WSCA). The journal is dedicated to the publication of original scholarly manuscripts which advance our understanding of human communication. All theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcome.	Current editor: Cheree Carlson, Arizona State University

	Women's Studies in Communication Women’s Studies in Communication provides a feminist forum for research, reviews, and commentary that advance our understanding of the relationships between communication and women, gender, and feminisms. WSIC is topically and methodologically inclusive, publishing manuscripts from quantitative, qualitative, and critical perspectives in areas including but not limited to interpersonal and organizational communication, rhetorical criticism and theory, and media and cultural studies.	Current editor: Sara Hayden, University of Montana Incoming editor: Cindy Griffin, Colorado State University