Stenberg's article chosen for Best Journals in Rhetoric & Composition 2019

Professor Shari Stenberg's article “‘Tweet Me Your First Assaults’: Writing Shame and the Rhetorical Work of #NotOkay” has been selected for the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2019, which will be published by Parlor Press in digital and print formats.

Stenberg's article appeared in the January 2018 issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. It features a study of the #NotOkay Twitter hashtag, which arose in 2016 as a response to the Access Hollywood Trump tape. The resulting Twitter thread grew to thousands of tweets in which contributors described their first experiences of sexual assault. The full text is available online through UNL Libraries.

Shari Stenberg is Professor of English and Acting Director of Women's and Gender Studies. Her scholarship is centered around composition and rhetoric, as well as feminist rhetorics and pedagogies. She is the author of Repurposing Composition: Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age (Utah State UP, 2015) and two other books on composition studies and the teaching of English.

Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2019 features journal articles that are first nominated by editors, and then read and ranked by reading groups that include graduate students, high school instructors, adjuncts, tenure-track, and tenured faculty. The goal of the series is "to recognize exciting scholarship that is occuring throughout the field's journals and to provide a current snapshot as to exigent themes, trends, and ideas within Writing Studies."