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JAC sponsors four annual awards for outstanding
scholarship published in the fields of rhetoric and writing theory, broadly
defined. Each award is named in honor of a scholar who has championed
theoretically oriented scholarship throughout his or her career and each
was generously endowed. Nominations and self-nominations are invited throughout
the year; please contact the Editor with your nomination or to obtain
additional information. See below for past award recipients.
Elizabeth A. Flynn Award for
the most outstanding article in feminist rhetorical theory or writing
studies.
Gary A. Olson Award for the
most outstanding book on rhetorical and cultural theory.
James L. Kinneavy Award
for the most outstanding article published in JAC.
W. Ross Winterowd Award
for the most outstanding book in composition theory.
Elizabeth A. Flynn Award Winners
- 2006Carol Mattingly, "Uncovering
Forgotten Habits: Anti-Catholic Rhetoric and Nineteenth-Century American
Women's Literacy," CCC
- 2005K. Hyoejin Yoon. "Affecting
the Transformative Intellectual: Questioning ‘Noble’ Sentiments
in Critical Pedagogy and Composition." JAC
25.4 (2005): 717–59.
- 2004Wendy Wolters, "Without
Sanctuary: Bearing Witness, Bearing Whiteness," JAC
24.2.
- 2003Wendy S. Hesford and Theresa
A. Kulbaga, "Labored Realisms: Geopolitical Rhetoric and Asian
American and Asian (Im)migrant Women's (Auto)biography," JAC
23.1.
- 2002Jacqueline Rhodes, "'Substantive
and Feminist Girlie Action': Women Online," College Composition
and Communication 54.1.
Gary A. Olson Award Winners
- 2006Sharon Crowley, Toward
a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism (University
of Pittsburgh Press)
- 2005Krista Ratcliffe, Rhetorical Listening:
Identification, Gender, Whiteness (Southern Illinois University
Press).
- 2004Vincent Mosco, The
Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Press).
- Todd McGowan, The
End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of
Enjoyment (State University of New York Press).
- 2003Edward Schiappa, Defining
Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Southern
Illinois University Press).
- 2002A. Suresh Canagarajah, A
Geopolitics of Academic Writing (University of Pittsburgh Press).
James L. Kinneavy Award Winners
- 2006Mustapha Marrouchi, "Out of the
Bazaar, into the Club and far Beyond with Monsieur Homi Bhabha"
- 2005Karen L. Kopelson, "Tripping Over Our Tropes: Of 'Passing'
and Postmodern Subjectivity--What's in a Metaphor?" JAC
25.3.
- 2003Haynes, Cynthia. “Writing
Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory.”
JAC 23.4 (2003): 667–724.
- 2002Marc Bousquet, “Composition
as Management Science: Toward a University without a WPA,” JAC
22, 493–526.
- Susan Searls Giroux, “The
Post-9/11 University and the Project of Democracy,” JAC
22, 57–91.
- 2001Henry A. Giroux, “Private
Satisfactions and Public Disorders: Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the
Politics of Masculine Violence,” JAC 21, 1–31.
- 1999D. Diane Davis. "'Addicted
to Love'; Or, Toward an Inessential Solidarity." JAC
19, 633-56.
- 1998Susan C. Jarratt, "Beside
Ourselves: Rhetoric and Representation in Postcolonial Feminist Writing,"
JAC 18, 57-75.
- 1998Bruce McComiskey, "Social-Process
Rhetorical Inquiry: Cultural Studies Methodlogies for Critical Writing
about Advertisements," JAC 17, 381-400.
- Honorable Mention: Pamela
K. Gilbert, "Meditations upon Hypertext: A rhetorethics for Cyborgs,"
JAC 17, 23-38.
- 1996Richard E. Miller, "What
Does It Mean to Learn? William Bennett, the Educational Testing Service,
and a Praxis of the Sublime," JAC 16, 41-60.
- Honorable Mention: Nancy
Welch, "Worlds in the Making: The Literacy Project as Potential
Space," JAC 16, 61-80.
- 1995David W. Smit, "Hall of
Mirors: Antifoundationalist Theory and the Teaching of Writing,"
JAC 15, 35-52.
- 1994George L. Pullman, "Rhetoric
and hermeneutics: Composition, Invention, and Literature," JAC
14, 367-87.
- 1993Michael Murphy, "After Progressivism:
Modern Composition, Institutional Service, and Cultural Studies,"
JAC 13, 345-64.
- Honorable Mention: John
Trimbur, "Articulation Theory and the Problem of Determination:
A Reading of Lives on the Boundary,"
JAC 13, 33-50.
- 1992Jasper Neel, "Dichotomy,
Consubstantiality, Technical Writing, Literary Theory: The Double
Orthodox Curse," JAC 12, 305-20.
- 1991Patricia A. Sullivan, "Writing
in the Graduate Curriculum: Literary Criticism as Composition,"
JAC 11, 283-99.
- Honorable Mention: Joseph
Petraglia, "Interrupting the Conversation: The Constructionist
Dialogue in Composition," JAC 11, 37-55.
- 1990Joy S. Ritchie, "Confronting
the 'Essential' Problem: Reconnecting Feminist Theory and Pedagogy,"
JAC 10, 249-73.
- Honorable Mention: Richard
M. Coe, "Defining Rhetoric—and Us," JAC
10, 39-52.
- 1989David Bleich, "Genders of
Writing," JAC 9, 10-25.
- 1988Reed Way Dasenbrock, "Becoming
Aware of the Myth of Presence," JAC
8, 1-11.
- Honorable Mention: William
A. Covino, "Defining Advanced Composition: Contributions from
the History of Rhetoric," JAC 8, 113-22.
W. Ross Winterowd Award Winners
- 2006Kevin J. Porter _Meaning, Language,
and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse_ published
by Parlor Press
- 2005Julie Jung, Revisionary
Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts (Southern
Illinois University Press).
- 2004Morris Young, Minor
Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship
(Southern Illinois University Press).
- 2003Catherine Prendergast, Literacy
and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board
of Education (Southern Illinois University Press).
- 2002Geoffrey Sirc, English
Composition as a Happening (Utah State University Press).
- Marshall Alcorn, Changing
the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire
(Southern Illinois University Press).
- 2001Susan Wells, Out
of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing
of Medicine (University of Wisconsin Press).
- 2000Bruce Horner, Terms
of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique (State University
of New York Press).
- Stephen Gilbert Brown, Words
in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (State
University of New York Press).
- 1999Wendy S. Hesford, Framing
Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy (University
of Minnesota Press).
- 1998Arabella Lyon, Intentions:
Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored (Pennsylvania State University
Press).
- Honorable Mention: Hepzibah
Roskelly and Kate Ronald, Reason to Believe:
Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing (State
University of New York Press).
- 1997Deborah Mutnick, Writing
in the Alien World: Basic Writing and the Struggle for Equality in
Higher Education (Boynton/Cook).
- 1996James A. Berlin, Rhetorics,
Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies (NCTE).
- Honorable Mention: John
Schilb, Between the Lines: Relating Composition
Theory and Literary Theory (Boynton/Cook).
- 1995Xin Liu Gale, Teachers,
Discourses, and Authority in the Postmodern Composition Classroom
(State University of New York Press).
- 1994Jasper Neel, Aristotle's
Voice: Rhetoric, Theory, and Writing in America (Southern Illinois
University Press).
- 1993Kurt Spellmeyer, Common
Ground: Dialogue, Understanding, and the Teaching of Composition
(Prentice Hall).
- Honorable Mention: C.H.
Knoblauch and Lil Brannon, Critical Teaching
and the Idea of Literacy (Boynton/Cook).
- Honorable Mention: Valerie
M. Balester, Cultural Divide: A Study of
African-American College-Level Writers (Boynton/Cook).
- 1992Lester Faigley, Fragments
of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition
(University of Pittsburgh Press).
- 1991Susan Miller, Textual
Carnivals: The Politics of Composition (Southern Illinois University
Press).
- Honorable Mention: C.
Jan Swearingen, Rhetoric and Irony: Western
Literacy and Western Lies (Oxford University Press).
- 1990Sharon Crowley, The
Methodical Memory: Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric
(Southern Illinois University Press).
- Honorable Mention: Deborah
Brandt, Literacy as Involvement: The Acts
of Writers, Readers, and Texts (Southern Illinois University
Press).
- 1989Susan Miller, Rescuing
the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer
(Southern Illinois University Press).
- Honorable Mention: Charles
Bazerman, Shaping Written Knowledge: The
Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science,
(University of Wisconsin Press).
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