One of the founders of the contemporary discipline of rhetoric and composition, W. Ross Winterowd is the Bruce R. McElderry Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California. In addition to publishing twenty-two books and numerous articles in the field of rhetoric and composition, Winterowd founded the influential doctoral program in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literatures at the University of Southern California. The annual book award in his name honors Dr. Winterowd’s legacy as well as the most outstanding book-length scholarly work published during the preceding year.
Jung’s book augments the understanding and teaching of revision by arguing that the process should entail changing attitude rather than simply changing texts. Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts proposes and demonstrates alternative ways of reading, writing, and teaching that hear silences in such a way as to generate personal, pedagogical and professional revisions. As both a challenge to prevailing revision pedagogies and an elaboration of contemporary feminist rhetorics, the volume encourages students and instructors to examine their identities as scholars of rhetoric and composition and to question how and why revision is taught. Jung’s essays on feminist pedagogy, revision, and contemporary rhetoric have been published in JAC, Composition Studies, and several anthologies.
Jung earned her Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition at the University of Arizona. She holds a M.A. in English from Washington State University and a B.A. cum laude in Mathematics from the University of Dayton. She is currently Associate Editor JAC, a scholarly journal that publishes articles, responses, and book reviews that work at the intersections of rhetoric, writing studies, literacy studies, and the politics of higher education. Jung joined the Illinois State faculty in 1999.