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Adrienne Rich: A Reading with Commentary Great Hall, Memorial Union, Mon, Sep 22, 2008
Adrienne Rich: Informal Meeting and Discussion Campanile Room, Tue, Sep 23, 2008
 

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.

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Tue, Feb 5, 2008

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.

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Tue, Feb 5, 2008

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).

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Tue, Feb 5, 2008

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.

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Tue, Feb 5, 2008

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.

  • Posted by gsauer
  • Published: Thu, Jan 31, 2008

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.

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Sun, Jan 27, 2008

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.

  • Posted by gsauer
  • Published: Wed, Dec 5, 2007

Maggie LaWare Contributes Article to Urban Communication Reader

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Mon, Dec 3, 2007

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.

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Thu, Nov 29, 2007

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.

  • Posted by gbetcher
  • Published: Tue, Nov 27, 2007

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.

  • Posted by gbetcher
  • Published: Wed, Oct 31, 2007

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.

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Sun, Oct 21, 2007

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."

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Tue, Oct 16, 2007

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.

  • Posted by marquart
  • Published: Tue, Oct 16, 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.

  • Posted by donpayne
  • Published: Mon, Oct 8, 2007
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