McKoy Receives Outstanding Dissertation Award at CCCC

ECU English alumna Dr. Temptaous Mckoy (Ph.D. 2019), now an assistant professor at Bowie State University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication Award for her project “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.”

This prestigious national award is a credit to Dr. Mckoy’s important work and to the excellent mentoring she received in our PhD program. Her dissertation committee included Michelle Eble (chair), Erin Frost, Matt Cox, and Natasha Jones (Michigan State). She is in good company; previous winners of the CCCC dissertation award include Erin Frost (2015), Donna Kain (2004), and Brent Henze (2003).

Go English!