McKoy Garners Third Award for Dissertation

ECU English alumna Dr. Temptaous Mckoy (PhD RWPC 2019), now an assistant professor at Bowie State University, has been selected as the winner of ECU’s 2020 Thesis and Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts category for her dissertation, “Y’all Call It Technical And Professional Communication, We Call It #Fortheculture: The Use Of Amplification Rhetorics In Black Communities And Their Implications For Technical And Professional Communication Studies.” Mckoy will receive the award at a virtual event on April 12.

This is the third award for McKoy’s dissertation, which also received the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication Award and the 2020 Presidents Dissertation Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

Go English!