Current Issue
Editorial Board and Review Process
The Kairos Editorial Review Process
The most unique feature of Kairos—our editorial review process—includes three distinct tiers, or stages of review.
- Tier One
- When the editors receive a submission, they evaluate it, deciding if it is indeed appropriate for Kairos and if it is of sufficient quality and scholarly merit to enter our formal editorial review process. If it is, then they promote the submission to Tier Two.
- Tier Two
- The entire editorial board discusses the submission for two-to-three weeks, coming to a collaborative assessment of its quality and potential to be published in Kairos. The board uses the following Peer-Review Heuristic when reviewing submissions:
- Does the rhetoric, design, and code cohere in ways that forward the argument?
- Does the webtext include media assets that forward its goals/claims?
- Does the webtext add new ideas/concepts to the field? These can be small or major, praxis-oriented or theoretically inclined, contemporary or historical.
- Is the overall approach clear in the rhetoric and/or design (whether or not there's a specific methodology, experimental design, or anti-racist method employed)?
- Does the author cite inclusively? That is, does the scholarly review (if appropriate) draw from a range of relevant feminist and cultural rhetorical traditions, include scholars from multiple identities (gender, race, disability, etc.) if known, or include research in multiple forms (open v. closed-access)?
- Does it have major holes (in form or content) that need to be fixed?
- NOTE: If a text is accepted (or accepted with revisions), the webtext proceeds (upon successful completion of revisions) to publication. If the text is not accepted, authors who are asked to revise and resubmit are given the opportunity to continue with a Tier Three review/mentorship.
- Tier Three
- The editors assign a staff member to work with authors, as needed, to guide/facilitate revisions based on the editorial board's comments and evaluation. This mentoring can last up to three months. Once Tier Three revisions are complete, the author resubmits the text for a Tier Two review and the process starts again. While advancement to a Tier Three review is not a guarantee of publication, it does reflect a significant investment in the submission. Our intention is to publish the webtext if the author or authors complete the revisions requested in consultation with the editors and editorial board.
Editorial Review Board
Elisabetta Adami
University of Leeds
Daniel Anderson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kristin Arola
Michigan State University
Anthony Atkins
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Samantha Blackmon
Purdue University
Kristine Blair
Duquesne University
Tiffany Bourelle
University of New Mexico
Tracy Bridgeford
University of Nebraska - Omaha
Janine Butler
Rochester Institute of Technology
Antonio Byrd
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Geoffrey Carter
Saginaw Valley State University
Chen Chen
Withrop University
Christina V. Cedillo
University of Houston - Clear Lake
Gail Corso
Neumann University
Jennifer deWinter
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kathy Fitch
Northern Illinois University
Kristie Fleckenstein
Florida State University
Jeffrey R. Galin
Florida Atlantic University
John Gallagher
University of Illinois
Matt Gold
The Graduate Center - CUNY
Laura Gonzales
University of Florida
Bill Hart-Davidson
Michigan State University
Alexandra Hidalgo
Michigan State University
Cynthia Jeney
Missouri Western State College
Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Clarkson University
Jim Kalmbach
Illinois State University
Erin Karper
Niagara University
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum
University of Delaware
Amy C. Kimme Hea
University of Arizona
Virginia Kuhn
University of Southern California
Bonnie Kyburz
Independent Scholar
Karen Lunsford
University of California Santa Barbara
Heidi McKee
Miami University of Ohio
Zarah C. Moeggenberg
The College of St. Scholastica
Jill Morris
Frostburg State University
Joddy Murray
Texas Christian University
Alex Reid
SUNY Buffalo
Colleen Reilly
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Rich Rice
Texas Tech University
Jim Ridolfo
University of Kentucky
David Rieder
North Carolina State University
Michael J. Salvo
Purdue University
Peter Sands
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jennifer Sano-Franchini
Virginia Tech
Jentery Sayers
University of Victoria
Jennifer Sheppard
San Diego State University
David Sheridan
Michigan State University
Wendi Sierra
Texas Christian University
Bruce Snaddon
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Michael Trice
MIT
Derek Van Ittersum
Kent State University
Victor J. Vitanza
Clemson University
Joyce Walker
Illinois State University
John Paul Walter
George Mason University
Bob Whipple
Creighton University
Carl Whithaus
University of California, Davis
Kathleen Blake Yancey
Florida State University
M. Remi Yergeau
University of Michigan
Sean Zdenek
University of Delaware
Editorial Board Alumni
Jennifer Bowie
Collin Brooke
Nick Carbone
Eric Crump
Michael Day
Susan Delagrange
DÃ nielle Nicole DeVoss
Scott Lloyd DeWitt
Anthony Ellertson
James Elmborg
Joel English
Tari Lin Fanderclai
Kathie Gossett
Sibylle Gruber
Gail E. Hawisher
TyAnna Herrington
Kyle Jensen
Judith Kirkpatrick
Krista Homicz Millar
Ryan Moeller
Ted Nellen
Michael Palmquist
Patricia Webb Peterson
James E. Porter
Rebecca Rickly
Robert Samuels
Cynthia Selfe
Dickie Selfe
Geoffrey Sirc
Michael Spooner
Karl Stolley
Pamela Takayoshi
Janice R. Walker
Anne Wysocki