Ultimately, Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age argues that such rhetorical training shaped citizens as romantic subjects in predictably heteronormative ways and simultaneously opened up possibilities for their queer rhetorical practices.
Pamela VanHaitsma is associate professor at Penn State University. She is the 2021 Randy Majors Memorial Award recipient from the National Communication Association's Caucus on GLBTQ Concerns, and her second book is The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers.
