Good News Summer 2023

Romeo García, who received an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Fellows’ Early Career Award. The Fellows' Early Career Award Committee writes:

Dr. Garcia’s work is impressive in scope and reach, addressing ongoing work in rhetoric and composition studies, cultural rhetorics, and decoloniality. The abundance of this work has had a profound impact on critical frameworks that are deeply aligned with the Society’s IDEA values, prompting members of the Society to reimagine what our work can do in the classroom and in the field. That Garcia’s work focuses on decolonial thinking connects with practices beyond theory is an essential move to making the work of the Society productive for scholars, institutions, and community leaders alike. 

Romeo has also been selected to serve as a Humanities Scholars mentor for 2023-2024.

Jay Jordan, who has been selected as a Kickstart Pilot Funding recipient in the College for his project, “Accounting for Transfer During and After a Third-Party International Student Pathway Program.”

Maureen Mathison, whose chapter, “Scientific Letters and Commentaries” is in The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication, winner of the Best WAC Edited Collection Award at this year’s IWAC.

Hua Zhu, who has also been selected as a Kickstart Pilot Funding recipient in the College for her project, “Interconnectivity and Power Subversion: Enacting the Rhetoric of According-Wiith.” Hua’s essay, with the same title, has recently been published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly.