Lauren Rosenberg (PhD '06) has been awarded the 2021 Richard Ohmann Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) for her co-authored article, "Entanglements of Literacy Studies and Disability Studies," with Stephanie L. Kerschbaum. The award recognizes the outstanding article in the past volume year of College English, the council’s flagship journal for scholarship and research in college English studies. The award is given in the name of Richard Ohmann, editor of CE from 1966 to 1978.
Rosenberg is the author of The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners (NCTE, 2015). Her research focuses on the writing practices of adult populations that are underrepresented in composition studies, lifespan methodologies for qualitative case study research, and feminist research ethics. She is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing studies in the English department at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she also directs the first-year composition program. She is working on a curriculum innovation grant to implement more high-impact and project-based learning in the writing program at her university.