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Announcement of Reciving the Kneupper Award: Susan Romaono

Susan Romano (PhD, 1996) has been awarded the 2011 Kneupper Award for the best article in the 2010 volume of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Her article, “’Grand Convergence’ in the Mexican Colonial Mundane: The Matter of Introductories” appears in 40:1, pages 71-93.

Three members of the Editorial Board served as the award committee: David Fleming, Jean Goodwin, and Patricia Roberts-Miller (chair of the committee and also Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing). Members of the committee found this essay to be “extraordinary,” “potentially transformative,” and “startling,” noting that it “identifies a question central to rhetorical studies” and serves as “a model of what great rhetorical scholarship can be—specific and abstract, drawing canonical theorists together with noncanonical texts, and pushing the field in a genuinely new direction.”

This award is given each year in memory of Charles Kneupper, 1949–1989, who initiated and organized the earliest biennial RSA conferences at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he taught. Charles was an active member of RSA and mentor to many graduate students in rhetoric.

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