The Department of English is thrilled to announce that Associate Professor and Director of Second-Year Writing Beverly Moss is the recipient of the 2021 CCCC Exemplar Award. According to the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) website, this award is given to “…a person whose years of service as an exemplar for our organization represents the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching, and service to the entire profession…The Exemplar Award seeks to recognize individuals whose record is national and international in scope, or whose record is local and regional with national implications, and who set the best examples for the CCCC membership.”

Moss has long been a valued professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she specializes in composition and literacy studies. Her scholarly interests include examining literacy in African American community spaces; composition theory and pedagogy; and writing center theory and practice. Moss has served on the editorial boards of the College Composition and Communication journal and the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series. She is currently writing a book on the literacy practices of Phenomenal Women Incorporated, an African American women’s service and social club.

Congratulations to Beverly Moss on this exciting accomplishment!