Morris Young earns Outstanding Book Award
Morris Young, Miami University associate professor of English and faculty affiliate in American studies, has received the Outstanding Book Award for 2006 from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
Morris’ book, Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2004.
Established in 1989, the CCCC award annually recognizes a book published two years previously that makes an outstanding contribution to composition and communication studies. The 2006 award was presented at a conference held in late March.
Young’s Minor Re/Visions shows how people of color use reading and writing to develop and articulate notions of citizenship. Influenced by the literacy narratives of other writers of color, Young theorizes an Asian-American rhetoric by examining works such as Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory, Victor Villanueva’s Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color, Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, and Maxine Hong Kingston’s “Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe” from Woman Warrior.
Young’s research and teaching focus is on composition and rhetoric, literacy studies and Asian-American literature. His essays and reviews have appeared in College English, Journal of Basic Writing, Amerasia and Composition Forum, and he has contributed chapters to edited collections including The Literacy Connection (Hampton, 1999), Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing (Utah State University Press, 2001), and East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (New York University Press, 2005).
Minor Re/Visions also received the 2004 W. Ross Winterowd Award for the most outstanding book in composition theory from JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Literacy, Culture, and Politics and the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition.
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