<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">Colleagues, </div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><br></div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">We are thrilled to share the news that the article <span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">“‘All Smell is Disease’: Miasma, Sensory Rhetoric, and the Sanitary-Bacteriologic of Visceral Public Health” </span>by Emily Winderman, Robert Mejia, and Brandon Rogers has been selected for the highly competitive volume <span class="gmail-_4yxo gmail-_4yxp" style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;font-family:inherit">Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020</span><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">,</span> which will be published by Parlor Press in digital and print formats.</div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">Please join us in congratulating the authors and editors Lisa Melonçon, J. Blake Scott, and<span class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:inherit"> special issue (public health) co-editor Jennifer Malkowski on this accomplishment!</span></div><div class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><a href="http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/view/580?fbclid=IwAR09Qk127WnP6X7pcJNeY6dPBJCZNBs8cCaXUs8RfOdBQADaUs-JajBOeyE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color:rgb(56,88,152);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:inherit">http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/view/580</a></div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Abstract:</span> In this essay, we interrogate the power of sensory rhetorics to craft what Jenell Johnson (2016) defines as a “visceral public”: a public bound by intense, shared feeling over a perceived threat of boundary violations. Specifically, we situate miasma—that environmental degeneracy produces bad smells carrying disease—as a historical disease etiology overtaken, but not fully displaced, by the insights of germ theory. This sanitary-bacteriological-synthesis is capable of constituting</div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit">visceral publics so adeptly because germ theory’s explanatory power as a disease etiology continues to rely on the rhetoric of sight and smell as a set of publicly accessible sensory engagements. To illustrate the raced, classed, and gendered consequences of this sanitary-bacteriological-synthesis, we offer a comparative analysis of two images of disease capturing the public imagination: the early 20th century typhoid fever and the 2015–2016 Zika virus outbreak.</div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit">Sincerely,</div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><br></div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit">RHM Assistant Editors </div></div></div>