Programs and Areas
Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy
Wendy Hinshaw Receives Ray Award and Summer Fellowship
Earlier this year, Wendy Wolters Hinshaw received The Edward J. Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service (Ray Award) and an English Department Summer Fellowship.
The Edward J. Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service (Ray Award) encourages and enables graduate students across the university to participate in professional conferences, both in their respective fields and in the broader academic community, by reimbursing or partially reimbursing the expenses incurred by graduate students during travel to conferences and meetings to present original research. Unlike other programs that grant travel funds, the Ray Award gives substantial weight to the applicant's service to his/her department, the university, and the surrounding community. Ray Award judges also take into account the academic standing of the applicant, the applicant's professional goals, the nature of the conference being attended, and the applicant's ability to convey the focus of their research to a general audience. Hinshaw used the award to present her paper "Reforming the Witness: Strategic Silences and Disclosures in Youth Offender Art and Writing" at CCCCs in March of this year.
The Summer Fellowship from the department has provided her time to conduct the fieldwork portion of her dissertation research at the Scioto Juvenile Corrections Facility, where she is observing art classes for female inmates conducted by the non-profit arts foundation ArtSafe.
