Mckoy Wins Presidents Dissertation Award

ECU English alumna Dr. Temptaous McKoy (PhD 2019), now an assistant professor at Bowie State University, has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 Presidents Dissertation Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition 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 is the second national award from McKoy’s dissertation, which also received the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication Award. McKoy also presented today as part of a national Zoom panel hosted by Virginia Tech on Black Technical and Professional Communication. (Three other ECU English alums, Kimberly Harper, Cecilia Shelton, and Constance Haywood, also presented.)

Go English!