ORWAC Journal

Women's Studies in Communication

The ORWAC Journal, Women's Studies in Communication (WSIC) provides a feminist forum for diverse scholarship addressing the relationships between communication and gender. WSIC invites contributions in the form of research, reviews, and commentary with the potential to advance our understanding of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, as well as the articulations between gendered performances, power, and representation in public culture. Topically and methodologically inclusive, WSIC publishes quantitative, qualitative, and critical perspectives on areas including but not limited to interpersonal and organizational communication, performance studies, rhetorical theory and criticism, and media and cultural studies. The editor is committed to promoting the best work that falls within these parameters and also to encouraging the development of new voices and new projects that may challenge conventional boundaries, styles, theories, and methods of communication scholarship. Feminist studies taking up queer politics, masculinity, critical race theory, transnationalism, postcolonial theory, visual culture, and public memory are especially encouraged at this time.

Joan Faber McAlister, Editor

Drake University

Kyra Pearson, Book and Media Review Editor

Loyola Marymount University

Marissa Fernholz, Editorial Assistant

Drake University

Dylan Rollo, Editorial Assistant

Drake University

  • Editorial Board

  • Adams, Tony E.

    Northeastern Illinois University
  • Aiello, Giorgia

    Leeds University
  • Aronson, Amy

    Fordham University
  • Baglia, Jay

    DePaul University
  • Battles, Kathleen

    Oakland University
  • Beck, Christine

    Ohio University
  • Biesicker, Barbara

    University of Georgia
  • Blair, Carole

    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Blair, Diane

    California State University, Fresno
  • Brouwer, Dan

    Arizona State University
  • Calafell, Bernadette Marie

    University of Denver
  • Carillo Rowe, Aimee

    University of Iowa
  • Chávez Karma R.

    University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Clarke, Lynn

    University of Pittsburg
  • Coonfield, Gordon

    Villanova University
  • Cuklanz, Lisa

    Boston College
  • DeLaure, Marilyn

    University of San Francisco
  • Demo, Anne

    Syracuse University
  • Dickinson, Greg

    Colorado State University
  • Dow, Bonnie

    Vanderbilt University
  • Eberly, Rosa A.

    Penn State University
  • Edwards, Janis L.

    University of Alabama
  • Enck, Suzanne

    University of North Texas
  • Flores, Lisa A.

    University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Foley, Megan

    Mississippi State University
  • Foss, Karen A.

    University of New Mexico
  • Foss, Sonja K.

    University of Colorado Denver
  • Goltz, Dustin

    DePaul University
  • Griffin, Cindy

    Colorado State University
  • Happe, Kelly

    University of Georgia
  • Hayden, Sara

    University of Montana
  • Hoeri, Kristen

    Butler University
  • Kimmel, Michael

    SUNY at Stony Brook
  • LaWare, Margaret R.

    Iowa State University
  • Licona, Adela C.

    University of Arizona
  • Manning, Jimmie

    Northern Illinois University
  • Marcel, Mary

    Bentley University
  • McKinnon, Sara

    University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Morris III, Charles

    Boston College
  • Natalle, Elizabeth J.

    University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Ott, Brian L.

    University of Colorado Denver
  • Palczewski, Catherine

    University of Northern Iowa
  • Perry, Lisa

    College of San Mateo
  • Projansky, Sarah

    University of Illinois, Urbana
  • Rand, Erin J.

    Syracuse University
  • Renegar, Valerie

    Southewestern University
  • Sahlstein, Erin M.

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Shugart, Helene A.

    University of Utah
  • Sisco King, Claire

    Vanderbilt University
  • Slagle, Tony

    University of Puerto Rico
  • Sowards, Stacey

    University of Texas at El Paso
  • Stormer, Nathan E.

    University of Maine
  • Taylor, Bryan C.

    University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Vavrus, Mary

    University of MInnesota
  • Wiese Leek, Danielle

    Grand Valley State University
  • West, Isaac

    University of Iowa
  • Willard, Barbara

    DePaul University
  • Wrigley, Brenda J.

    Syracuse University
  • Zaeske, Susan

    University of Wisconsin, Madison