The cover image is a screenshot from David Lynch's Twin Peaks, "The Return, Part 8" or "The Last Evening."
David Blakesley is the Campbell Chair in Technical Communication and Professor of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design at Clemson University. His books about or drawing from Burke include The Elements of Dramatism, Late Poems 1968–1993 by Kenneth Burke ((with Julie Whitaker), and The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film (SIU Press, 2007). He received the Distinguished Service Award from the KB Society in 2005.
Cody Hunter is the Assistant Director of Core Writing and a Teaching Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her works inspired by and drawing from Burke include Walking Back the System Trope: Reimagining Incarceration and the State Through a Spatial Theory Approach (dissertation), "A Flash of Light to Blurred Vision: Theorizing Generating Principles for Nuclear Policy from The Day After Trinity to the Year 2021," and "Rhetorical Listening in Action (in the Classroom): Centering Tropes for Large Group Decision-Making on (Potentially) Polarizing Rhetorical Problems" (forthcoming).
Heather Hartness is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Northwest Florida State College. Her dissertation, titled A Burkean Herstory: Liminal Narratives in the Life and Work of Kenneth Burke focused on Libbie Burke and other exemplary women surrounding K.B.
KB Journal's mission is to explore what it means to be "Burkean." To this end, KB Journal publishes original scholarship that addresses, applies, extends, repurposes, or challenges the writings of Kenneth Burke, which include but are not limited to the major books and hundreds of articles by Burke, as well as the growing corpus of research material about Burke. It provides an outlet for integrating and critiquing the gamut of Burkean studies in communication, composition, English, gender, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and technical writing. In light of this, Kenneth Burke need not be sole focus of a submission, but Burke should be integral to the structure of the argument.