@KairosRTP It's bullshit. We are all constantly worried we aren't measuring up and everyone is struggling just like you are. Step away for a day. Breathe. Talk to a friend outside of your program. Take stock of your successes and let your early failures go. It's gonna be ok.

Big congratulations to all our award winners! 🎉.

Finally, the 2025 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Scholarship, recognizing a pattern of excellent scholarship and/or the promise of future excellent scholarship, was awarded to: Mehdi Mohammadi!.

The 2025 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Teaching, recognizing the use of computers & writing pedagogies in classroom-based practice to promote student learning, was awarded to: Zakery R. Muñoz!.

The 2025 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Service, recognizing activities that promote excellent computers & writing pedagogy, theory, & community building, was awarded to: Elena Kalodner-Martin [Twitter @ekalodnermar]!.

We are still seeking donations to support winners in future years, see our other posts about donating! You can also send funds via Venmo to Kairos Senior Editor @ Cheryl-Ball-1 (mark as HSCF) or contact kairosrtp@gmail.com for more donation options.

The 2025 Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe Caring for the Future Award, which provides a scholarship for first-time, underrepresented scholars to travel to the Computers and Writing conference, was awarded to: Thais Rodrigues Cons [@thaiscons]!.

The 2025 John Lovas Award recognizing an outstanding online project devoted to academic pursuits was awarded to: Derek Mueller’s blog Earth Wide Moth

which you can find here <gt; in Kairos Issue 29.1!.

An Honorable Mention for the 2025 Kairos Best Webtext Award was awarded to Joshua DiCaglio, Gwendolyn Inocencio, Jessie Cortez, Hannah Mailhos, and Connor Hearron for “Wikipedia as editorial microcosm: Stalled Wikipedia Articles and the Teaching of Applied Comprehensive Editing”.

which you can find here <gt; in Kairos issue 28.2.

The 2025 Best Webtext Award, recognizing the best academic webtext published in the previous year, was awarded to: S. Cavar and ulysses/constance bougie for “port-man-toes: the aroace - queercrip - transmad - neuroqueer erotics of digital collaboration”.

Kairos is pleased to announce its 2025 award winners! Congratulations to them for their outstanding achievements, and thanks, also, to our award readers for their service!.

For full descriptions of the awards, check out the nomination form or the Kairos website

as well as the Grad Students and Contingent Faculty Awards (in the areas of Teaching, Service, and Scholarship), and the newly created Bill Hart-Davidson Mentorship Award, which recognizes exemplary mentorship in the field of C&W!. The deadline for all nominations is March 15!.

We are just a few days away from the nomination deadline for our annual awards! These include the Best Webtext Award (which doesn't have to be published in Kairos), the John Lovas Award (for an outstanding online academic project). .

For more info about the award and submission criteria and/or to submit a nomination, check out the nomination link here:

All webtexts should take advantage of the Web as a medium to present information in ways that traditional scholarly texts cannot. (Please see our list of past award winners for some excellent examples: .

Webtexts are texts authored specifically for publication on the WWW. They can be scholarly examinations, individual & collaborative reviews, interactive exchanges between scholars, teachers, and practitioners, or extended interviews with leading scholars.

Until our nomination deadline of March 15, Kairos will be spotlighting specific categories from our annual awards. Today we want to spotlight the Best Webtext Award (which doesn’t have to be published in Kairos).

Nominees need not be at any particular stage of their career to be considered. The key criterion is whether the nominee exhibits Bill's philosophy of giving. For more info about the award and submission criteria and/or to submit a nomination, check out the nomination link!.