http://engl.iastate.edu Recent announcements by, for, and about the people of the English Department. daily 1 2004-11-10T19:36:07Z http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/new-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. No publisher marquart Rhetoric Literature Women's Studies 2008-02-07T14:44:51Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/national-endowment-for-the-arts-award-debra-marquart-a-2008-nea-literature-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). No publisher marquart 2008-02-06T23:59:00Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/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. No publisher marquart 2008-02-05T22:07:12Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/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. No publisher marquart Rhetoric Literature Women's Studies 2008-02-07T14:45:28Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/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. No publisher gsauer 2008-02-01T03:14:10Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/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. No publisher marquart 2008-01-27T18:24:58Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/eserver-awarded-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. No publisher gsauer Courses Rhetoric Grants Advanced Communication Publications 2007-12-19T16:23:10Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/maggie-laware-contributes-article-to-urban-communication-reader No publisher marquart Rhetoric Speech Communication 2007-12-19T16:22:07Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/rpc-ph-d-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. No publisher marquart Rhetoric People 2007-12-19T16:21:32Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/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. No publisher gbetcher 2007-11-27T22:13:20Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/folger-shakespeare-library-website-to-feature-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. No publisher gbetcher 2007-11-15T20:06:00Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/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. No publisher marquart 2007-10-27T22:40:32Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/dr-dr-jane-davis-co-authors-article-for-the-journal-on-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." No publisher marquart 2007-10-21T15:04:24Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/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. No publisher marquart 2007-10-17T02:03:13Z News Item http://engl.iastate.edu/news_items/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. No publisher donpayne 2007-10-10T14:30:45Z News Item