Books

I have written or edited eight books on the rhetoric of health and medicine, scientific communication, and food and animal studies. For articles, chapters, and works in progress, see the Research page.

Living Menopause: Rhetorics, Tensions, and Futures (Bloomsbury, 2026)

A co-authored monograph (with Lori Beth De Hertogh, Ann Green, Laura Micciche, Cathryn Molloy, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Jamie White-Farnham) examining the rhetorics of menopause — its tensions, silences, and futures.

The Rhetorical Construction of Vegetarianism (Routledge, 2023)

An edited collection (Critical Food Studies series) applying rhetorical methodologies to vegan and vegetarian discourse — from ecofeminist rhetoric to the masculinization of plant-based meat.

Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication (Routledge, 2022)

Co-edited with Michael Zerbe, Gabriel Cutrufello, and Stefania Maci. Winner of the Best WAC Edited Collection Award (2023). A comprehensive survey of the issues confronting scientific communicators today.

Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Co-edited with Kristin Kondrlik (Animal Ethics series). The collection studies vegetarian and anti-vegetarian arguments across media, historical eras, and geographies.

Effective Scientific Communication: The Other Half of Science (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Co-authored with Kelleen Flaherty. A textbook for STEM students grounded in the premise that writing is a component of science itself — light in tone, serious about content.

Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850–1920 (University of South Carolina Press, 2019)

Co-authored with Carol Berkenkotter. ACRL Outstanding Academic Title. A study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness diagnosis, drawing on asylum archives and litigation records.

A Minefield of Dreams: Triumphs and Travails of Independent Writing Programs (WAC Clearinghouse, 2016)

Co-edited with Justin Everett. An open-access collection on the promises and challenges of independent writing programs.

Special issues

• Rhetoric Society Quarterly: “Rhetoric of Science in (Times of) Crisis” (2025), with Michael Zerbe and Gabriel Cutrufello
• Rhetoric of Health and Medicine: “Food as Medicine” (2021)