Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space
From DigitalRhetoricCollaborative
constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space[1] is an online double-blind peer-reviewed publishing space focused on cultural rhetorics scholarship, teaching, and practice. Constellations welcomes a variety of kinds of publications, including traditional articles, multimodal pieces, short monographs, video essays, documentaries, podcasts, webtexts, “new ideas” pieces of any length in any media, teaching conversation pieces, digital installations, etc. The journal encourages non-traditional pieces, particularly those that push boundaries of style, form, content, and media in their composition and presentation.
Constellations functions on a rolling basis, with all submissions undergoing double-blind peer review. Submissions accepted for publication are assigned a mentor to help the author(s) interpret and revise according to reviewer feedback.[2] The publications’ review philosophy follows tenants of cultural rhetorics scholarship that view academic conversations as part of community-building and collaboration. In addition, it is the practice of constellations to give credit to all labor that goes into an article, so in addition to authorial credits, each publication includes a list crediting editors, reviewers, mentors, and copyeditors who helped in the production of a piece.[3]
Constellations was co-founded at Michigan State University by Malea Powell, Alexandra Hidalgo, Phil Bratta, and Cindy Tekkobe. Its first issue was published in May 2018.
