University Times

Three books in the Pittsburgh Series on Composition, Literacy and Culture recently won major awards. The series, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, is edited by English faculty David Bartholomae, chair, and Jean Ferguson Carr.

• “Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism” by Sharon Crowley won the 2008 CCCC Outstanding Book Award, marking the third prize for this book. The CCCC award is sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

“Toward a Civil Discourse” also won the 2007 Gary A. Olson Award for the most outstanding book on rhetorical studies and cultural theory from the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition, and JAC: A Journal of Advanced Composition. Crowley’s work also garnered the 2007 David Russell Award for distinguished research in teaching from the NCTE.

• “A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity” by Byron Hawk won this year’s W. Ross Winterowd Award for the most outstanding book on writing studies, from JAC.

• “Acts of Enjoyment; Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject” by Thomas Rickert won this year’s Olson prize.