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New McGraw-Hill Anthology of Writing by Women Co-Edited by Diane Price Herndl
Women’s Worlds, a new anthology of women’s writing, was created to make available a broad range of women’s voices from across time, across classes, and across the globe in a slimmer, more flexible, and more affordable format.
National Endowment for the Arts Awards Debra Marquart a 2008 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
Debra Marquart, professor of English at Iowa State University, has been awarded a $25,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Kathy Hickok Receives 2008 "Advancing One Community" Award in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Diane Price Herndl Honored at 123rd Annual MLA Convention
The Women's Caucus of the MLA honored Diane Price Herndl at the 123rd Annual MLA Convention by awarding her the 2007 Florence Howe Award for the year's Best Essay in Feminist Studies in English.
English Students and Faculty Interviewed on Iowa Public Television
At 8:30pm on January 31st, 2008 Iowa Public Television featured an episode of its documentary series "Iowa Journal" entitled "Multitasking", which featuring the topics of media use by information consumers and the effects of new media upon students. The episode featured video interviews of English Department faculty member Geoffrey Sauer and MA alumna Rachel Johnson, as well as showing video clips of other students in the English Department, both learning and teaching.
David Russell Co-Authors Article for Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy
In this webtext Russell and his co-authors argue that the way in which an educational content/course management system (CMS) is configured and deployed can provide students with the sense that they are immersed in a time-space (or chronotope) that is different from the chronotope they experience in traditional classrooms.
EServer Awarded LASCAC Grant
The EServer, an online publishing venture in the arts and humanities based in the ISU English Department, was recently awarded a grant to develop a Web 2.0 tool for English Department courses.
RPC PhD Candidates Deliver Papers and Panels at ABC Conference in Washington, DC
Iowa State University's RPC doctoral candidates and faculty make a strong showing at the 2007 ABC Conference.
Gloria Betcher and Susan Yager Perform Middle English Drama in York Minster, York, UK
Gloria Betcher and Susan Yager attended the "Visual Representations of Medieval Spirituality" conference, July 16-18, 2007, in York, UK, to present papers and perform readers' theater of Middle English drama in York Minster.
Folger Shakespeare Library Website to Feature Gloria Betcher's Drama Forum Prompts
The prompts for an online discussion forum created for Dr. Gloria Betcher's spring 2006 English 450 Drama Seminar have been selected for posting on the Folger Shakespeare Library's Website. The forum was an inter-collegiate project promoting online discussion among ISU students in Dr. Betcher's class and students in Dr. Alan Baragona's medieval drama seminar at Virginia Military Institute.
ISU Business Communication Student Wins 2007 Association for Business Communication Student Writing Award
Julie Ryan has been awarded the 2007 ABC Student Writing Award. Her instructor and faculty sponsor was Anish Dave, a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication.
Jane Davis Co-Authors Article for The Journal of Excellence in College Teaching
The Challenge of Teaching in Higher Education: A Message From the Editors: "Higher education continues to grapple with numerous teaching challenges as we approach the end of the first decade of the new millennium. These include an increasingly multicultural student population, greater demand for alternative teaching methods and forms of delivery, the ever-expanding use of technology in teaching, and the need to train and mentor faculty to meet these challenges. But ... perhaps the path to reform begins not with sweeping institutional change but with the day-to-day efforts of individual faculty members, coupled with faculty development programs to support faculty in these efforts."
Gloria Betcher Wins Excellence in Teaching Award from National Professional Organization
Dr. Gloria Betcher received the Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Southeastern Medieval Association at their annual meeting October 3-6, 2007.
Donna Niday and Don Payne Invite ICTE Teachers to "Join the WOVE Club"
ISUComm administrators Donna Niday and Don Payne Presented "Join the WOVE Club: Teaching Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Communication" to the Iowa Council of Teachers of English, Oct. 5, 2007, Des Moines, IA.
ISUComm Receives NSF Grant in Partnership with Six Colleges and Universities
ISUComm will be participating with Carleton College, Morehouse College, St. Olaf College, Seattle Central Community College, Wellesley College, and Yale University to assess quantitative reasoning using writing portfolios.
ISU Professors and Graduate Students Receive "Top Panel" Award
Top Panel Award for the "Basic Course Division," Central States Communication Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN, March 30, 2007.
PEN USA Awards Debra Marquart the 2007 Creative Nonfiction Award
“If you dare think that nothing really happens out there in the middle of nowhere, read this gorgeous book about a family and their land, about the girl who strained against both and finally left. From the first words, you’ll feel a taproot set down in your heart, one that won’t let go because the story is as old as the land itself. You know the one--that story of mothers and fathers and daughters and sons, that rough and tender story of the ties that bind." —Lee Martin, author of From Our House and The Bright Forever
JBTC Publishes Article by David Russell
The current issue of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication features an article by David Russell, ISU Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication.
