Jessica Ouellette, PhD ’16 in composition and rhetoric, recently received an honorable mention for the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition for her book Feminist Connections: Rhetoric and Activism across Time, Space, and Place, coedited with Katie Fredlund and Kerri Hauman.
The Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award recognizes outstanding, book-length contributions in the areas of feminist pedagogy, practice, history, and theory in rhetoric and composition.
Feminist Connections highlights feminist rhetorical practices that disrupt and surpass boundaries of time and space. This year’s award judges wrote of Feminist Connections: “This beautiful collection of essays puts time, place, and space into rhetorical conversations that revisit and mash up traditional components of classical rhetoric…The result is most impressive, producing: new theories for future research, novel understandings of both historical social movements and our own, and models for re-envisioning archival research methods and delivering those findings.”
Ouellette is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at the University of Southern Maine where her teaching and research areas include feminist rhetorical studies, digital rhetoric, globalization, and transnational studies.