I was announced as the recipient of the 2022 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship’s Dissertation Award at the Cs Awards Presentation during the 2022 CCCC Annual Convention in March for my dissertation, “Queerstory of Recovery: Literacy and Survival in A.A.”
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is an association within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). As stated by the CCCC Selection Committee for this award:
Meticulously researched, Bacibianco’s work elegantly blends personal narrative of recovery with scholarship. By moving in and around the white, cisgender hegemonic narratives of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author was able to situate those narratives into the historical context from which they emerged, identify counter voices within AA, and offer a personal futurity of testimony by queering rhetoric, space, and narrative through their recovery podcast. The research, which infiltrates the sub-community of AA and further identifies the queer sub-community within, seems rhetorically relevant to other suppressive communities.
Additional Awards:
2016 Sigma Tau Delta, National Honor Society, English Department, St. John’s University Chapter
2015-2017 Doctoral Fellowship, English Department, St. John’s University
2005 Phi Eta Sigma, National Honor Society, English Department, St. John’s University Chapter
