Kirk Nancy Wins Outstanding Research Award

Published Sep 20, 2021 by
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The Ph.D. program in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication in English at East Carolina University recently announced that Ruby Kirk Nancy is the winner of our 2019 inaugural Ph.D. Outstanding Research Award.

Kirk Nancy began the program in the fall of 2015 having come to the department from her master’s program at Western Illinois University. Her research has focused on genre fluidity within rhetoric and writing studies especially where issues of sex, gender, and sexuality are concerned.

Kirk Nancy is a doctoral candidate and plans to defend her dissertation in the spring semester of 2020. Her dissertation committee is Dr. Matt Cox (chair), Drs. Erin Frost, Wendy Sharer, and Deborah Thomson (ECU School of Communication). The award winner receives $300 in professional development/travel funds to be used in the academic year the award is given.

Go English!