Kristie Fleckenstein of English wins book award

A book by Professor Kristie Fleckenstein has been named the most outstanding book in composition theory by the Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC).

The book—Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom—is the winner of the 2009 W. Ross Winterowd Award, an award that has been given annually by JAC for 20 years.

“Kristie Fleckenstein’s Winterowd Award is confirmation of her tremendous scholarly achievement,” said Professor Ralph Berry, chair of Florida State’s English department. “This well-deserved honor is a source of pride for all her colleagues here.”

JAC is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes work on rhetoric, writing, culture, and politics and is recognized for its theoretical approach to issues in rhetoric and composition.

This is not the first major book award for Fleckenstein, who joined the Florida State University faculty in 2006. In 2005, her monograph titled Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching was honored with the “Outstanding Book of the Year Award” by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. To read more, go to http://www.fsu.edu/news/2010/06/17/book.award/