Gwendolyn Pough Elected Chair of CCCC
The Writing Program is pleased to announce that Gwen Pough, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Women's Studies, has been elected to serve as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communications (CCCC), the highest office in this professional organization for researching and teaching composition. In her four-year appointment, effective December 2008, Gwen will move from Assistant Chair to Associate Chair to Chair to Immediate Past Chair.
Gwen says that CCCC was where she found her first "academic home" as a graduate student, and she has since served with dedication on a number of CCCC committees. As Assistant Chair, one of Gwen's major responsibilities is to plan the CCCC convention in Louisville in 2010, and in 2011 she will deliver the Chair's address in Atlanta. Of this important accomplishment, Gwen says, "I am deeply honored and humbled to be elected by the members of my professional organization. Their vote of confidence about my vision and leadership means the world to me."
Gwen's vision for the organization includes continuing to embrace the differences represented in the field. She writes, "CCCC needs leadership that will bring together its wide constituency of teachers, writers, and researchers. The leadership should represent the diverse knowledges, practices, and peoples that make up the organization in order to tap into and build on the richness that the organization has to offer."
Writing Program Director Eileen Schell knows that Gwen will be a dynamo in the office of CCCC Chair: "Gwen is a ground-breaking scholar of African American rhetoric and writing, a first-class writer of both scholarly discourse and popular writing, and a wonderful colleague and teacher/mentor to undergraduate and graduate students. She exemplifies the kind of energetic and inspired leadership we need in the field."
—story by Emily Dressing
Gwen Pough also recently was a recipient of the Sojourner Truth Award.
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