Richard Ohmann Award for
Outstanding Article in College English
The Richard Ohmann Award recognizes the outstanding refereed article in the past volume year of College English that makes the most significant contribution to scholarship, research, theory, or pedagogy in English studies.
Eligibility: Articles to be considered will be chosen from the
College English volume year, September through July in the year
prior to selection. The first award was given for the 2000-2001 issues of the journal.
Susan C. Jarratt, "Classics and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century Historically Black Colleges"
Previous Winners of the Richard Ohmann Award
2009: Christopher Carter, "Writing with Light: Jacob Riis's Ambivalent Exposures" (November 2008)
2008: Mary Queen, "Transnational Feminist Rhetorics in a Digital World" (May 2008)
2007: LuMing Mao , “Studying the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition in the Present: Re-presenting the Native’s Point of View” (January 2007)
2006: Paul Kei Matsuda, "The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in U.S. College Composition" (July 2006)
2005: Eli Goldblatt, "Alinsky's Reveille: A Community-Organizing Model for Neighborhood-Based Literacy Projects" (January 2005)
2004: Susan Romano, "Tlaltelolco: The Grammatical Colonial Indios of Colonial Mexico" (January 2004)
2003: J. Blake Scott, "Extending Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis: Transformations of Home HIV Testing" (March 2003)
2002: Candace Spigelman, "Argument and Evidence in the Case of the Personal" (September 2001)
2001: John Alberti, "Returning to Class: Opportunities for Multicultural Reform at Majority Second Tier Schools" (May 2001)