Jacqueline Jones Royster

Jacqueline Jones Royster is an American academic, author, and rhetoric, literacy, and cultural studies scholar. She is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

Education and career

Royster earned a B.A. in English from Spelman College in 1970.^[1] She has a D.A. (1975) and an M.A. (1971) in English and Linguistics from the University of Michigan.^[2]

Royster taught English at the

Royster's research focuses mostly on African-American women and civil rights. Two of her books with this research are Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African-American Women and Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900. She was a co-editor for Reader's Choice.[2] She also co-edited Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture^[2]. In 2003, she co-edited a college writing textbook called Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community.^[2]

Selected publications

• Bell-Scott, Patricia, ed. (1992). Double stitch: black women write about mothers & daughters (3. print. ed.). Boston: Beacon Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8070-0910-9.^[4]
• Royster, Jacqueline Jones (1996). "When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own". College Composition and Communication. 47 (1): 29–40.
  JSTOR 358272
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• Royster, Jacqueline Jones; Williams, Jean C. (1999). "History in the Spaces Left: African American Presence and Narratives of Composition Studies". College Composition and Communication. 50 (4): 563–584.
  JSTOR 358481
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  • Winner of the 2000 Conference on College Composition and Communication Richard Braddock Award^[5]
• Royster, Jacqueline Jones (2000-03-24). Traces Of A Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women. University of Pittsburgh Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8229-5725-6.^[6]
  • Recognized by the Modern Language Association with the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize^[7]
• Royster, Jacqueline Jones; Wells, Ida B., eds. (2011). Southern horrors and other writings: the anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892 - 1900. The Bedford series in history and culture. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
  ISBN 978-0-312-11695-8
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• Royster, Jacqueline Jones; Kirsch, Gesa E. (2012). Feminist rhetorical practices: new horizons for rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies. Studies in rhetorics and feminisms. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8093-3069-0.^[8]
  • Winner of the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award[9]

Awards and honors

In 2004 Royster received the Exemplar Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.^[10] In 2006 she received the Frances Andrew March Award from the Modern Language Association.^[11] She was named a fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America in 2014.^[12] In 2014, she and Gesa E. Kirsch received the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition (CFSHRC) for her co-authored book Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies,^[13] and she received the Global Ambassador Award from Alliance Française d'Atlanta.^[2] In 2024, she received an honorable mention for the CFSHRC Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award for her book Making the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1990.^[14] With Jean C. Williams, she is the recipient of the 2000 Richard Braddock Award.^[15]

References

External links

• Georgia Tech profile