Co-editor, After the Crisis: Make, Do, and Mend and/as Rhetoric of Science (2027/28)
With Lisa deTora and Ryan Mitchell. After the RSQ Special Issue on Rhetoric of Science, a publisher contacted us and wanted us to basically continue the work. The collection is currently under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.
Article: Deconstructing speciesism in writing and rhetoric studies: A programmatic agenda (2026)
Recently published in Res Rhetorica (June 2026) – Special issue on posthuman rhetorics. Open Access
This paper offers a programmatic agenda for de-centering humans in one of the last bastions of academia that has resisted an animal turn in its pedagogical practices: writing and rhetoric studies. Non-human animals enjoy robust systems of communication and meaning-making, which they transmit through their cultures and which they evolve in constant dialogue with other species, humans included. As academics who teach language arts, we can and should use rhetorical tools to dismantle speciesism in the classroom. The four pillars of the nonspeciesist rhetorical pedagogy outlined in this article are rhetorical listening, reframing speciesist linguistic scripts, considering animals as rhetorical agents and putting ecosophy at the center of human and nonhuman animal rhetorics.
Chapter/co-author: A Rhetorical History of Women’s Health Initiative, in Living Menopause
In a co-authored book spearheaded by Cathryn Molloy and Lori Beth deHertogh, I have contributed a chapter on the rhetorical history of the Women’s Health Initiative study and its implications for the use of hormonal treatments of menopause. The book is is available for preorder from Bloomsbury and will be out early fall 2026.
Co-editor, Special Issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly on Rhetoric of Science in (times of) Crisis
With Mike Zerbe and Gabriel Cutrufello. The issue was published in the Summer of 2025.
I contributed to the Introduction and to the Dialogue (mostly conceiving questions and editing).
Zerbe, Michael, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, and Gabriel Cutrufello. “The Rhetoric of Science in (Times of) Crisis.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly vol. 55, no. 3, 2025, pp. 207–222. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2025.2493481
Condit, Celeste, Lisa Keränen, Carolyn Miller, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Michael Zerbe, and Gabriel Cutrufello. “Rhetoric of Science: Reflections on the History and Future of the Field: A Dialogue with Carolyn R. Miller, Celeste M. Condit, and Lisa Keränen.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly vol. 55, no. 3, 2025, pp. 340-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2025.2493479
Chapter and talk: The Huberman Lab: The role of ethos in communicating biohacking science
This chapter, published in an edited collection, is based on a talk I gave as a plenary speaker at the 2nd International Cirlam Conference on Communicating medical science in the digital age: culture, knowledge, expertise, practices, Naples, 25 – 27 May 2023. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Language and Medicine (CIRLaM), University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy. It critiques the well-known science podcast The Huberman Lab, with a focus on how Huberman uses ethos in his capacity as tenured professor at Stanford, neuroscientist, and first-hand user of the many wellness products he sells on the podcast.
Citation:
Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina. “The Huberman Lab: The Role of Ethos in Communicating Biohacking Science.” Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age: Culture, Knowledge, Expertise, Practices, edited by Girolamo Tessuto, Stefania Maci, and Michael Zerbe, Cambridge Scholars, 2025, pp. 18-35.
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, PhD 