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Jacqueline Jones Royster
Jacqueline Jones Royster (Born August 25, 1950) former dean and Jr. Chair of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2010-2019). Much of her research is focused on intersections of history rhetoric, feminist studies, and cultural slides. She also has interests in civil rights and the digital humanities.

Early Life
Jacqueline Jones Royster was born on August 25, 1950 in Greensboro, Georgia, United States. Daughter of Edgar Duncan Jones and Lilla Belle (Ashe) Jones Mitchell.

Education
Bachelor, Spelman College, 1970; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1971; D. Arts, University of Michigan, 1975.

Teaching and Professional Experience
Royster is an English professor at Georgia Tech, where she previously served as Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Formerly, she taught English at the Ohio State University and Spelman College.

Royster has upholded many leadership roles including the 1995 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association's Writing Division. Aditionally, she has been an editor of many academic journals within rhetoric, composition, and writing studies. Royster was a part of the editorial collective for Sage Journal's A Scholarly Journal of Black Women.

Research and development
Jacqueline Jones Royster is known for her work in the field of rhetoric and composition. Her research often focuses on issues related to literacy, language, and education. Royster usually works with a focus in African American studies, and her work often explores the intersections of race, gender, and class in educational contexts. She pays special attention to language and literacy and how those practices shape people's idenities and opportunities.

An example of Royster's work, "When the First Voice You hear Is Not Your Own," points to her own experiences as a minoroity who has been put in subordinated positions. Royster looks at her frustration with being treated as a text without a voice. She shows that when one does speak they may not be treated fairly or seriously, because of something called an "appropriated" voice. The important questions Royster asks are:


 * "How can we teach, engage in research, write about, and talk across boundaries with others, instead of for, about, and around them?" (Royster, 38)
 * "How do we listen? How do we demonstrate that we honor and respect the person talking and what that person is saying, or what the person might say if we values someone other than ourselves having a turn to speak?" (Royster, 38).
 * "How do we translate listening into language and action, into the creation of an appropriate response? How do we really 'talk back' rather than talk also?" (Royster, 38).

Royster comes down to the goal of better practices in the classroom, where everyone can exchange perspectives and create a full understadning of eachother with cooperation.

Books

 * Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
 * Souls of Black Folk & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
 * Literature Texas Treasures: American Literature
 * Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies
 * Writer's Choice: Grammar and Composition; Grade 7
 * Traces Of A Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women
 * Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community
 * Writer's Choice Grammar and Composirion 8 Teacher's Wraparound Edition (Texas)
 * Writer's Choice Composition and Grammar (Grade 9)
 * Literature 11 American Lit Beg-1900 (AL)
 * Making the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900
 * Writer's Choice: Grammar and Composition
 * Writer's Choice Grade 7, Grammar Workbook
 * Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803-2003
 * Glencoe Literature: The Reader
 * Glencoe Writers Choice, Teachers Wraparound Edition, Composition and Grammar, Grades 6,7 & 8
 * Literature, The Reader's Choice, (Alabama Edition), American Literature, 1900 to the Present
 * Glencoe Literature, Course 4, Teacher's Edition

Articles

 * "When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own" College Composition and Communication, Vol. 47, No. 1 (February 1996) pp. 29-40
 * "Writing Worth Reading: A Practical Guide" Review College Composition and Communication (1987).
 * "New Histories of Rhetoric" College English (1996).
 * "Shifting the Paradigms of English Studies: Continuity and Change" PMLA (2000)
 * "Reading Past Resistance: A Response to Valerie Balester" College Composition and Communication (2000).
 * "Human Rights and Civil Rights: The Advocacy and Activism of African-American Women Writers" Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2011).

National Awards

 * 2000 CCCC Braddock Award
 * 2004 CCCC Exemplar Award
 * 2006 ADE/MLA Frances Andrew March Award
 * 2001 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize