Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, is pleased to accept nominations for its 2025 Awards at this submission link!
Visit the nomination form or the Kairos website to see details about the following awards, all due by March 15, 2025! Winners will be recognized at the May 2025 Computers and Writers Conference (need not be present to win).
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The Kairos Best Webtext Award for the best academic webtext published in the previous calendar year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos).
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The John Lovas Award for an outstanding online project (blog, podcast, etc.) devoted largely to academic pursuits.
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The Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty (teaching, scholarship, and service categories) to recognize outstanding contributions in teaching, scholarship, and service to the field of Computers and Writing by graduate students and contingent faculty.
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The Bill Hart-Davidson Mentorship Award, which recognizes exemplary mentorship in the field of Computers and Writing.
John Lovas Award
Today, we specifically want to spotlight the John Lovas Award…
Scholars have been making significant contributions to knowledge in rhetoric and composition via the open-publishing tools of the Internet, in much the same way that Kairos has worked to push forward scholarship as the field’s longest-running e-journal. The John Lovas Award is sponsored by Kairos in recognition and remembrance of John Lovas’s contributions to the legitimation of academic knowledge sharing using the emerging tools of Web publishing, from blogging, to newsletters, to social media. Each year the award underscores the valuable contributions that such knowledge-creation and community-building have made to the discipline by recognizing a person or project whose active, sustained engagement with topics in rhetoric, composition, or computers and writing using emerging communication tools best exemplifies John’s model of a public intellectual.
The award will be given to the person or project which best meets the following criteria. The project must:
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Be publicly available on the Internet.
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Be at least six months old from the date of submission for consideration.
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Be updated regularly (regularity is relevant to media, e.g., weekly or more frequently for social media, bimonthly or monthly for podcasts, etc.).
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Engage with other born-digital academic compositions and knowledge-sharing projects, performing the role of a public intellectual.
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Address any of the theoretical, practical, or praxis-based issues addressed in Kairos and other journals in computers and writing studies.
Nominees can be in a variety of Web-based media, such as podcasts, blogs, social media sites (e.g., Instagram, Twitter), and so forth. Please see our list of past award winners for examples of projects which meet these criteria. As of 2016, the criteria for the John Lovas Award has been opened up beyond blogs to include other digital projects.
Submission Guidelines
We invite you to submit nominations via this Google form, which will ask for a single PDF that contains the following:
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Author information, including name, address, phone number, and email address
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Nominator information (if different from the author)
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Title, date, and place of publication of the webtext
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Working URL of the webtext
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A description of at least two paragraphs detailing how the webtext meets the award criteria.