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Application Deadline: October 10

Purpose: CCCC presents six awards designed to support scholarship dedicated to improving knowledge about the intersections of disability with composition and rhetoric, the value of disability as a source of diversity, inclusive practices and the promotion of access, and the value of disability as a critical lens. These awards encourage scholars who investigate issues relating to disability and to the field of composition and rhetoric to present their work at the conference; we hope to recognize the efforts of individuals dedicated to improving the experiences of people with disabilities in the field, and we believe it is important to support scholars with disabilities to travel to share their work.

Eligibility: CCCC offers up to three travel awards for graduate students and three travel awards for faculty and staff members. The awards are to be used for travel assistance, based on review of accepted CCCC Annual Convention program proposals. The awards will go to the eligible scholars whose convention program proposals are determined to have the greatest potential to further the goals laid out in the CCCC Position Statement on Disability Studies in Composition.

The CCCC Disability in College and Composition Travel Award is committed to investing in our organization’s members by rewarding and supporting nontraditional researchers, especially:

• researchers who have not had the opportunity to engage in funded research and
• researchers who have little to no support for research within their institutions.

Award Criteria: The Awards Selection Committee invites a range of in-progress scholarship, teaching, service, and/or activism in line with critical disability studies. Submissions will be assessed on whether the proposal meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Exigence: contributes critically to a current issue in writing studies and/or disability studies, including but not limited to classroom spaces, disability resource centers, disability cultural centers, or other online/hybrid/in-person spaces used by disabled bodyminds
• Theory: references, extends, or complicates a disability framework within writing studies; sharpens concepts or models presently engaged in disability and writing
• Research: employs or develops disability studies methodology and/or crip research methods; identifies a research void at the intersection of disability and writing
• Pedagogy: engages accessible pedagogy, relating specific classroom practices to theoretical frameworks in a manner prioritizing the presence of disability in writing studies while allowing for replicable practices across instructional modalities
• Community: presents ideas or frameworks for building cross-disability community, expanding access to professional conversations and spaces, and/or engaging in disability advocacy and activism

Award Specifics: Self-nominations are invited. Self-nominees must submit a copy of their accepted CCCC convention program proposal and are invited to add an additional 500 words of justification in support of their self-nomination. To nominate an individual, nominators are invited to write up to 500 words of justification in support of the nominee; the nominee will then be asked to provide a copy of their accepted CCCC convention program proposal. Both self-nominations and nominations must include the full contact details of the nominee. Nominations should directly address the nominee’s efforts to further the previously mentioned goals laid out in the CCCC Policy on Disability. Nominations are due by October 10, 2024, and should be emailed as a single PDF attachment to cccc@ncte.org.

Clear preference will be given to first-time conference attendees and/or untenured faculty.

Determinations will be made by early December.

The travel awards will be in the amount of $750. Award recipients will receive their award at a reception during the annual convention, and will have these awards officially recognized in publications and announcements.

Other Considerations: In the event that the CCCC Annual Convention moves to an online-only event with no in-person component, recipients will receive a complimentary registration for the convention in lieu of any travel funds.

Disability in College Composition Travel Awards Winners

2024

 

Jennifer Baker, University of Washington, Seattle

Janelle Capwell Giles, University of Arizona

Kathleen Dillion, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Abygail Gutierrez, University of Washington

Jack Wolfram, University of Washington-Seattle 

 

2023
Ashley Barry, University of New Hampshire
Lesley Owens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Devon Pham, University of Pittsburgh
Kerri Rinaldi, Old Dominion University
Rebecca Spiegel, Drexel University

2022
Kari Hanlin, Bowling Green State University
Millie Hizer, Indiana University, Bloomington
Rachel Kurasz, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Sherrel D. McLafferty, Bowling Green State University
Rachel Roy, University of New Hampshire, Durham

2021
Kristin Bennett, Arizona State University
Elena Kalodner-Martin, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alex Sibo, Penn State University

2020
Anna Barritt, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Brielle Campos, Middle Tennesee State University, Murfreesboro
Adam Hubrig, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jessie Male, Ohio State University, Columbus
Ruth Osorio, Old Dominion University, Norfolk
Neil Simpkins, University of Washington-Bothell

2019
Mary De Nora, Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Rachel Donegan, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
Rachel Herzl-Betz, Nevada State College, Henderson
Cody A. Jackson, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Caitlin Ray, University of Louisville, KY
Anne-Marie Womack, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

2018
Dev K. Bose, University of Arizona, Tucson
Meg Carlson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mary Glavan, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Ai Binh Ho, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Heather Lang, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Kelin Loe, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2017
Ellen Birdwell, Alvin Community College, TX
Janine Butler, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Rachel Donegan, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
Hailee Yoshizaki Gibbons, University of Illinois at Chicago
Denise Y. Hill, Arizona State University, Tempe
Margaret Anne Moore, Fairfield University, CT

2016
Amanda Athon, Governors State University
Dev Bose, University of Arizona
Heather Lang, Florida State University
Andrew Lucchesi, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Lauren Terbrock, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

2015
Elisabeth Hassler, Humboldt State University
Allison H. Hitt, Syracuse University
Laura Kolaczkowski, University of Dayton
Katharine G. Monger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Lauren Obermark, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Tara K. Wood, Rockford University

Nomination Deadline: August 1

Purpose: The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Lavender Rhetorics Award is presented annually to four works (one book, one article or book chapter, one dissertation, and one nontraditional scholarly text) published within the past two years that best make queer interventions into the study of composition and rhetoric. Works should rise to a high level of excellence in their originality, the significance of their pedagogical or theoretical contributions to the field, their affective impact, and their existing or potential influence.

Eligibility: For the 2025 awards, works must have been published/conferred in calendar year 2023 or 2024. To be eligible for an award, both the author of the work and the individual making the nomination must be members of CCCC and/or NCTE at the time of nomination.

Award Criteria: The Selection Committee will consider the nature of the problem(s) addressed, the contribution’s timeliness, how effectively the work utilizes research or scholarship to fill voids in our existing knowledge, how well the work demonstrates potential for application (pedagogically or in other contexts), affective impact, and what promise the work holds for future exploration and investigation.

Award Specifics: Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged. Nominations must be received by August 1, 2024. Please submit the following items to cccc@ncte.org:

• Book Award: A one-page statement of the work’s contribution to queer scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies. (Note: It is not necessary to send copies of the nominated book.) In the case that an edited collection is selected, editors and contributors will receive the award equally.
• Article or Book Chapter Award: A one-page statement of the work’s contribution to queer scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies as well as an electronic copy of the article. Nominators may, if they choose, put forward an entire special issue. In the case that the special issue is selected, editors and contributors will receive the award equally.
• Dissertation Award: A one-page statement of the work’s contribution to queer scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies as well as an electronic copy of the dissertation.
• Nontraditional Scholarship Award: A one-page statement of the work’s contribution to queer scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies with specific attention to the ways the nominated text breaks with traditional scholarly presentation of ideas as well as a link to or electronic copy of the text.

Individuals may only win one award per year and no more than one award in a two-year period.

Any unanticipated cases facing the awards committee that make selection difficult will be resolved by members of that committee with a rationale provided to the Queer Caucus Co-chairs and CCCC Chair.

Recipients of these awards will be recognized and receive a plaque or, in the case of special issues or edited collections, a certificate at a reception during the CCCC Annual Convention. Winners will be notified in January.

Lavender Rhetorics Award Recipients

2025 Recipients

Article: Jon M. Wargo and Kyle P. Smith, “‘So, you’re not homophobic, just racist and hate gay Muslims?’: Reading Queer Difference in Young Adult Literature with LGBTQIA+ Themes,” Volume 55 Issue 3 of English Education

Dissertation: Keshia McClantoc, “Queer Literacies, World-Making, and Access in the Rural South”

Nontraditional Scholarly Text: Seth E. Davis, Unbuckling the Bible Belt: Black Queer Cruising in Memphis, 2024

 

2024

Book: J. Logan Smilges, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence, University of Minnesota Press, 2022
and
Book: Stephanie West-Puckett, Nicole I. Caswell, and William P. Banks, Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment, Utah State University Press, 2023
Book Chapter: Tommy Mayberry, “Teaching Can Be a Real Drag (Show); Or, Move over, Sage! That Stage Is Mine”, Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases and Practices, 2022
Dissertation: Ruby Mendoza, “A Rhetorical, Decolonial, and Cultural Critique on Cistematic Academic Scholarly Practices: Mobilizing Queer and Trans* Formative BIPOC Resistance for Institutional Critique”

2023

Article: GPat Patterson, “Loving Students in the Time of Covid: a Dispatch from LGBT Studies,” Journal of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, 2022
Article Honorable Mention: Timothy Oleksiak, “Composing Consent as a Response to the Challenge of Openness,” College English, 2022
Book: Travis Webster, Queerly Centered: LGBTQA Writing Center Directors Navigate the Workplace, Utah State University Press, 2021
Dissertation: Wilfredo Flores, “Toward a Virulent Community Literacy: Constellating the Science, Technology, and Medicine of Queer Sexual Health”
Nontraditional Scholarly Text: Jonathan Alexander, Creep Trilogy, WRITING SEX, and Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot

2022
Article: James Joshua Coleman, “Restorying With the Ancestors: Historically Rooted Speculative Composing Practices and Alternative Rhetorics of Queer Futurity,” Written Communication, 2021
Dissertation: Danielle Bacibianco (former Bacigalupo), “Queerstory of Recovery: Literacy and Survival in A.A”
Nontraditional Scholarly Text: Jacqueline Rhodes, “Once a Fury,” Morrigan House, 2020

2021
Article: Seth E. Davis, “Shade: Literacy Narratives at Black Pride,” Literacy in Composition Studies, 2019
Book: Ian Barnard, Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, University of Alabama Press, 2020
Dissertation: Gavin P. Johnson, “Queer Possibilities in Digital Media Composing”

2020
Article: Johnathan Smilges, “White Squares to Black Boxes: Grindr, Queerness, Rhetorical Silence,” Rhetoric Review, 2019
Book: William P. Banks, Matthew B. Cox, and Caroline Dadas, Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects, Utah State University Press, 2019
Dissertation: Josie Rush, “Just Between Us Girls: Discursive Spaces from America’s First Gay Magazine to the World’s Last Website for Queer Women, 1947–2019”

2019
Article: Joyce Olewski Inman, “Breaking out of the Basic Writing Closet: Queering the Thirdspace of Composition.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 2018.
Book: Melanie Yergeau, Authoring Autism: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Duke University Press, 2017.
Dissertation: Seth E. Davis, “Fierce: Black Queer Literacies of Survival”

2018
Article: Collin Craig, “Courting the Abject: A Taxonomy of Black Queer Rhetoric.” College English, 2017.
Book: Eric Darnell Pritchard. Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy. Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
Dissertation: Stephanie West-Puckett, “Materializing Makerspaces: Queerly Composing Space, Time, and (What) Matters”

2018 Book Award Honorable Mention
Qwo-Li Driskill. Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory. The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

2017
Article: Jean Bessette, “Queer Rhetoric in Situ.” Rhetoric Review, 2016.
Book: Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes. Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Identities, Publics. Routledge, 2016.
Dissertation: Jon M. Wargo, “Connective Compositions and Sitings of Selves: Elastic Literacies, Queer Rhetorics, and the Online/Offline Politics of LGBT Youth Writing”

2016
Book: Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander. Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2015.
Dissertation: Kathleen Livingston, “The Queer Art & Rhetoric of Consent: Theories, Practices, Pedagogies”

2015
Article: R. Joseph Rodriguez, “There Are Many Rooms.” Pennsylvania Literary Journal 6(1), Spring 2014.
Book: Serkan Gorkemli. Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2014.
Dissertation: Garrett Wedekind Nichols, “Rural Drag: Settler Colonialism and the Queer Rhetorics of Rurality”

2014
Article: Eric Darnell Pritchard, “For Queer Kids Who Committed Suicide, Our Outrage Isn’t Enough: Queer Youth of Color, Bullying, and the Discursive Limits of Identity and Safety.” Harvard Educational Review, 2013, 83:2, 320-345.
Dissertation: G Patterson, “Doing Justice: Addressing the LGBTQ-Religious Junction in English Studies”

Workshop Reports of the 1950 Conference on College Composition and Communication Meeting, March 24-25, Hotel Stevens, Chicago.