Chester alumnae, doctoral candidate, earns national recognition
Brittany S. Hull, a doctoral candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has won a 2017 CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship. The Conference on College Composition and Communication is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English. Hull is one of four recipients of this award.
Hull is a second-year Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the English Composition and TESOL program. Her interests include rhetoric and composition, sociolinguistics, African-American literature, poetry and feminism. Hull has conducted research at the University of California, Los Angeles and presented at academic conferences including Conference of College Composition and Communication, College Language Association, and the American Women Writers of Color Conference. She attained a 4.0 GPA for the fall 2016 semester and holds a cumulative GPA of 3.90 at IUP.
Born and raised in Chester, Hull is a 2007 graduate of Chester High School. Hull earned a Bachelors of Arts degree in English Liberal Arts from Lincoln University in 2011 and Masters of Arts in English from West Chester University in 2013. She is a member of Sigma Tau Delta National English Honor Society and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Tau Delta Omega chapter. Currently, Hull is a graduate assistant at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Punxsutawney campus) where she is a writing mentor in the writing center. She is the daughter of Norma J. Hull and Lewis Hynson, both residents of Chester.
CCCC sponsors the Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship to remember and honor the chairs of CCCC who have passed away as well as to increase participation of graduate students at CCCC’s annual conference. The CCCC Executive Committee awards scholarships of $750 each to help cover the costs of four graduate students who are presenting at the annual conference.
Hull will be announced as a recipient of the CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship on Thursday, March 16, during the 2017 CCCC Annual Convention in Portland, Ore.
For information about the CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship, including past winners, see http://www.ncte. org/cccc/awards/c h a i r s s cholarship.