Shelton Wins Dissertation Award

ECU English alumna Cecilia Shelton (PhD RWPC 2019), now an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication for her project “On Edge: A Techné of Marginality.”

This prestigious national award is a credit to Shelton’s important work and to the excellent mentoring she received in our PhD program in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication. Her dissertation committee included Wendy Sharer (chair), Erin Frost, Michelle Eble, and Ersula Ore (Arizona State). She is in good company. This is the second year in a row that an ECU RWPC alumna has received this award; Temptaous Mckoy received it in 2020. Previous winners of the CCCC dissertation award also include Erin Frost (2015), Donna Kain (2004), and Brent Henze (2003).

Go English!