Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

About

Valerie Renegar is a Professor of Communication Studies at Southwestern University and the holder of the Herman Brown Chair. Her research focuses on feminist rhetoric as well as the role of rhetoric in social change. Her work appears in several outlets including Hypatia Womens Studies in Communication Communication Studies Howard Journal of Communications and the Western Journal of Communication as well as chapters in a number of edited collections.Kirsti Cole is a Professor of Rhetoric Composition and Literature at Minnesota State University. She is the faculty chair of the Teaching Writing Graduate Certificate and Masters of Communication and Composition programs. She has published articles in Womens Studies in Communication TCQ Feminist Media Studies College English harlot and thirdspace as well as a number of chapters in edited collections. Her collection Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetorics was published in 2014. She has also edited the following collections with Holly Hassel: Surviving Sexism in the Academy: Feminist Strategies for Leadership (2017) Academic Labor beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values (2020) and Transformations: Change Work Across Writing Programs Pedagogies and Practices (2021).