"Profiles of Ohio Women: 1803-2003"

Jacqueline Jones Royster
Interim Dean of Humanities & Professor of English, The Ohio State University

with special guests John Glenn & Karen Holbrook

11:30 a.m.
Thursday, March 4, 2004
Complimentary Lunch Served
Book Signing to Follow

Reservations Required
Please call 614-688-3206, ext.1
or e-mail glenninstitute@admin.ohio-state.edu
by February 27, 2004

The Ohio State University Faculty Club
181 South Oval Drive
Columbus, OH
Parking in nearby Ohio Union Garage

Jacqueline Jones Royster, Professor of English and Interim Dean of the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University, has three complementary areas of interest: the rhetorical history of women of African descent, the development of literacy, and contexts and processes related to the teaching of writing. She has authored numerous articles and books that illustrate this confluence of concerns in both literacy studies and women’s studies.

From 1983 through 1996, she was a member of the editorial collective of Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, serving as senior associate editor. In addition to their semi-annual journal (which published its final issue in January 1996), the collective published an anthology, Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters (Beacon Press, 1991—hard cover; HarperCollins, 1993—softbound). In 1997, Professor Royster edited Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Bedford Books). In 2000, she completed Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women (University of Pittsburgh), and she is currently compiling a co-edited collection (with Ann Marie Simpkins, Auburn University) Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture. Her publications also include textbooks. She served as consulting author for composition of Writer’s Choice, 6-8 (Glencoe 1994), a textbook series in language arts for middle school students. She served as program consultant for Glencoe Literature: Reader’s Choice (Glencoe 2000), a literature series for high school courses (courses 1-5, American literature, British literature, and World literatures) and a college level reader for first or second year composition courses, Critical Inquiries (Addison Wesley Longman 2003). In addition, she recently completed Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803-2003 (Ohio University Press 2003) in support of the State of Ohio Bicentennial celebration.

In addition to her teaching, administrative, and scholarly activities, Professor Royster has also been very active in English professional organizations. She has filled a variety of roles on committees, task forces, and commissions, including serving as chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and chair of the executive committee of the Division on Teaching Writing of the Modern Language Association. Such leadership roles are evident on the Ohio State campus as well. She serves as Chair of the President’s Council on Women’s Issues and as a member of the Steering Committee for the newly established OSU Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the Americas.

Among the honors and awards that Professor Royster has received are: Ohio Pioneer in Education (for higher education) by the State of Ohio Department of Education (2000); Braddock Award (2000) from the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s for the best article in their journal, College Composition and Communication; Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize (2001) from the Modern Language Association’s in recognition of her book Traces of a Stream; University Distinguished Diversity Award (2002) from The Ohio State University.