Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship
Annual CCCC award recognizing outstanding queer scholarship in composition and rhetoric across book, article, dissertation, and nontraditional text categories.
Funder: National Council of Teachers of English
Due Dates: August 1, 2026 (Nomination deadline)
Funding Amounts: No monetary award; recipients receive a plaque or certificate and recognition at the CCCC Annual Convention.
Summary: Annual award recognizing outstanding queer scholarship in composition and rhetoric across four categories: book, article/chapter, dissertation, and nontraditional scholarly text.
Key Information: Both nominees and nominators must be CCCC and/or NCTE members at nomination time.
Description
The award, presented by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), honors four outstanding works each year—a book, an article or book chapter, a dissertation, and a nontraditional scholarly text—that make significant queer interventions in the fields of composition and rhetoric. It recognizes originality, the significance and impact of pedagogical or theoretical contributions, and influence on the field. Winners are celebrated for addressing timely issues, filling gaps in scholarship, demonstrating potential for pedagogical or broader application, and inspiring further exploration in queer studies within rhetoric and composition.
