<div dir="ltr"><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">The editors of <span style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-style:italic">Present Tense </span>are pleased to welcome you to Volume 7, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2018). In keeping with our mission to publish timely scholarship about rhetoric in contemporary life, this general issue brings together a wide range of voices and subjects. Despite their diversity, collectively these articles focus our attention on issues of identity, inclusion, and social justice in realms ranging from sites of education to historical signage, to bathroom placards, to music, and to television. Taken together, these articles offer a view of how rhetoric shapes and is shaped by the multifaceted world around us in profound ways.</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Volume 7.1 includes the following articles and review essays:</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Kim Hensley Owens’ “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-7/no-mas-mas-teachers-defining-pedagogies-and-themselves-in-a-post-ethnic-studies-arizona/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(9,187,193)">No Más MAS: Teachers Defining Pedagogies and Themselves in a Post-Ethnic Studies Arizona</a>” details how two teachers reconfigure their pedagogical identities after the Mexican American Studies (MAS) curriculum was banned in Tucson, Arizona.</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">April L. O’Brien’s “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-7/horrorism-and-ontological-dignity-what-do-not-historical-signs-tell-us/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(9,187,193)">Horrorism and Ontological Dignity: What Do/not Historical Signs Tell Us?</a>” argues that historical signage can impair the ontological dignity of a place through rhetorical moves that deflect attention away from that place’s racist past.</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Abby M. Dubisar and Gabrielle E. Roesch-McNally’s “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-7/representation-resistance-and-rhetoric-bananas-catalyze-campus-activism/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(9,187,193)">Representation, Resistance, and Rhetoric: Bananas Catalyze Campus Activism</a>” documents an interdisciplinary collaboration between a rhetoric scholar and a sustainable agriculture student to convey the benefits of such collaborations for helping students understand university-sponsored research at their institutions.</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">William Duffy and John Pell’s “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-7/the-indecorous-objects-of-social-transformation/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(9,187,193)">The Indecorous Objects of Social Transformation</a>” employs object-oriented rhetorics to examine how objects such as bathroom placards can work as disruptions to bring about social change for LGBTQ community members and other marginalized groups.</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Jonathan F. Williams’ “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-7/burke-black-metal-and-the-golden-dawn-deconstructing-the-dangerous-appeal-of-national-socialist-black-metal/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(9,187,193)">Burke, Black Metal, and the Golden Dawn: Deconstructing the Dangerous Appeal of National Socialist Black Metal</a>” offers an analysis of contemporary white supremacist rock music’s disturbing appeal through the lens of Kenneth Burke’s theories of identification.</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Andrew Pilsch’s “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-7/the-ethos-of-mr-robot/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(9,187,193)">The Ethos of Mr. Robot</a>” describes the anti-corporate ethos conveyed in the television series <span style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-style:italic">Mr. Robot </span>and explores how this functions in relation to the shifting ethos of the network which produces and distributes the show.</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Sheri Rysdam reviews Brandt’s <a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-7/book-review-brandts-the-rise-of-writing/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(9,187,193)"><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-style:italic">The Rise of Writing</span></a></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Alejandra I. Ramírez reviews Hidalgo’s <a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-7/book-review-hidalgos-camara-retorica/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(9,187,193)"><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-style:italic">Cámara Retórica</span></a></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">As always, we wish to thank our authors for their excellent scholarship, our reviewers for their time and feedback, and our many advisers who have guided us through the years. Most of all, thanks to our readers for supporting <span style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-style:italic">Present Tense</span>.</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Sincerely,</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px">Megan Schoen, Managing Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Managing Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Caitlan Spronk, Technical Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Shreelina Ghosh, Multimedia Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Elizabeth L. Angeli, Annotated Bibliography Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Don Unger, Social Media Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Ryan Skinnell, Review Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Joshua Prenosil, Business Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Jessica E. Clements, Style Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Cristyn L. Elder, Style Editor<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit">John Williford, Design Editor</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder (he/him)<br>Assistant Professor, Scientific, Technical, and Professional Writing</div><div dir="ltr">Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>School of Writing, Literature and Film<br>Oregon State University<br>Moreland 212<br>Corvallis, OR 97331<br>541-737-1649<br><a href="http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/ehren-pflugfelder" target="_blank">http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/ehren-pflugfelder</a><br><a href="http://ehrenpflugfelder.com" target="_blank">ehrenpflugfelder.com</a></di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