Jon Wargo and Kyle Smith receive a 2025 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship
The awards honor works that best make queer interventions into the study of composition and rhetoric.
Associate Professor Jon M. Wargo and Educational Studies doctoral candidate Kyle Smith have been selected as the winners of the 2025 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship’s Article Award for “‘So, you’re not homophobic, just racist and hate gay Muslims?’: Reading Queer Difference in Young Adult Literature with LGBTQIA+ Themes,” which appeared in Volume 55 Issue 3 of English Education.
The Lavender Rhetorics Awards for Excellence in Queer Scholarship are presented annually to four works (one book, one article or book chapter, one dissertation, and one nontraditional scholarly text) published within the past two years that best make queer interventions into the study of composition and rhetoric. CCCC notes that the award-winning works “should rise to a high level of excellence in their originality, the significance of their pedagogical or theoretical contributions to the field, their affective impact, and their existing or potential influence.”
Wargo and Smith will receive the award in April 2025 at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
