Chapter 1 – General Information
- 1.1 Graduate Program Resources
- 1.2 Academic Information
- 1.3 Program Advisors, Major Professors, & POS Committees
- 1.4 Degree Progress, Planning, and Time Limits
- 1.5 Minors and Co-majors
- 1.6 Course Policies
- 1.7 Registration
- 1.8 Graduate Assistantships
- 1.9 Graduate Student Travel and Support
- 1.10 Program Completion
- 1.11 Graduate Faculty Members
- 2.1 About the MA programs
- 2.2 MA in English Degree Requirements
- 2.3 MA in Rhetoric, Composition, & Professional Communication Degree Requirements
- 2.4 MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics Degree Requirements
- 2.5 Minoring and Co-majoring in the MA Programs
- 2.6 The Graduate Committee Membership and Academic Plan (MA)
- 2.7 Guidelines for Thesis and Creative Component (MA)
- 3.1 About the MFA program
- 3.2 M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Environment Degree Requirements
- 3.3 The Graduate Committee Membership and Academic Plan (MFA)
- 3.4 Minoring and Co-majoring in the MFA Program
- 3.5 Guidelines for Thesis (MFA)
- 4.1 About the Doctoral programs
- 4.2 PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology (ALT)
- 4.3 PhD in Rhetoric and Professional Communication (RPC)
- 4.4 Minoring and Co-majoring in the PhD Programs
- 4.5 The Graduate Committee Membership and Academic Plan (PhD)
- 4.6 Preliminary examination requirements and ABD Status
- 4.7 Guidelines for the Dissertation (Ph.D.)
- 5.1 About the Concurrent Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programs
- 5.2 Concurrent BA in Linguistics/MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics Degree Requirements and Curriculum Plans
- 5.3 Concurrent BS in Technical Communication/MA in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication Degree Requirements and Curriculum Plan
- 5.4 The Graduate Committee Membership and Academic Plan (Concurrent MA) (UPDATES COMING SOON)
- 5.5 Guidelines for Thesis and Creative Component (Concurrent MA)
- 6.1 About the Certificate Programs
- 6.2 Certificate in TESL/TEFL Program Requirements
- 6.3 The Certificate Academic Plan (COMING SOON)
Listed are members of the ISU Graduate College Graduate Faculty from the English department. The English department majors listed for each faculty member are the majors they can represent on POS committees.
- ALT = PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology
- ENGL = MA in English (Literature or Literature and the Teaching of Reading specializations)
- CWE = MFA in Creative Writing and Environment
- RCPC = MA in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication
- RPC = PhD in Rhetoric and Professional Communication
- TESL = MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics
- LING = Minor in Linguistics (graduate minor only)
- SP CM = Minor in Speech Communication (graduate minor only)
The online legacy system accessible by faculty and staff, not students, is the Graduate Faculty Database through Summer 2024; beginning Fall 2024 the information will be in Workday.
*Associate member
**Affiliated associate member
| Name | Research and Teaching Areas | Majors |
|---|---|---|
| Anders, Abram | rhetoric and composition theory; business and professional communication; creative collaboration and human-centered design; innovation and entrpreneurship; technology-enhanced learning | RCPC RPC |
| Aune, Jennifer* | development of collaborative English links for Learning Communities; communication research regarding the (mis)understanding of science affects scientists’ communication with the general public; literary research on the silence in the Icelandic sagas | ENGL RCPC RPC |
| Bartlett, Lesley | composition theory and pedagogy; rhetoric and performance, feminist rhetorics and pedagogies; teacher identity; writing across the curriculum | RCPC RPC |
| Beckett, Gulbahar | sociolinguistics; language socialization; content-based language teaching/learning; project-based language teaching/learning; sociocultural approaches to language teaching/learning; qualitative research methodology; language policy | TESL ALT LING |
| Betcher, Gloria* | early British drama through the time of Shakespeare; Arthurian legend; medieval British literature and culture; multimedia design; digital humanities; and multimodal communication | ENGL RCPC RPC |
| Chapelle, Carol | computers in applied linguistics; second language acquisition and testing; computer-assisted instruction | TESL ALT LING |
| Chukharev, Evgeny | human language production and comprehension; computational modeling of human memory, learning, and forgetting; semantics-driven machine understanding of natural language; automated text generation from knowledge bases | TESL ALT LING |
| Coffelt, Tina | interpersonal and family communication; sexual communication; quantitative and qualitative research methods | RCPC RPC |
| Cook, K L | creative writing (fiction, nonfiction); classic and contemporary short story; short story cycle; forms of fiction, sudden fiction; American West in film and literature; literature of the American Dream; family systems in film and literature; Shakespeare | CWE |
| Cotos, Elena | automated writing evaluation; intelligent/computer-assisted language learning and assessment; genre analysis; learner corpora | TESL ALT LING |
| Dubisar, Abby | gendered/feminist rhetorics; activist rhetorics/pedagogy; rhetorics of peace/war; digital and multimodal writing; writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines; rhetorical history and theory; disability studies | RCPC RPC SP CM |
| Egbert, Jesse** | corpus linguistics; language teaching; grammar foundations; sociolinguistics | ALT |
| Gilchrist, KJ* | 20th-century literature in English; literature of WWI and modernism; interdisciplinary, collaborative, and international education | ENGL |
| Gray, Bethany | corpus linguistics; register variation; English for Academic Purposes; English grammar and lexico-grammar; disciplinary writing; teaching academic writing; programming for linguistic analysis | TESL ALT LING |
| Hegelheimer, Volker | computer-assisted language learning; language testing; educational technology | TESL ALT LING |
| Huffman, Sarah* | genre and discourse analysis; academic writing instruction; systemic functional linguistic approaches to language learning and analysis; graduate writing tutor training | TESL ALT LING |
| Kostelnick, Charles | visual communication in professional writing; literature and visual art | RCPC RPC |
| LaWare, Maggie | interpersonal and rhetorical communication; women’s communication; visual communication | RCPC RPC SP CM |
| Levis, John | linguistics; oral discourse analysis | TESL ALT LING |
| Mackiewicz, Jo | business communication; discourse analysis (especially evaluative texts such as product reviews); technical and professional editing; English and global English grammar; politeness; publications management; research methods in technical and professional communication | RCPC RPC TESL ALT |
| Marquart, Debra | writing poetry, nonfiction, fiction; intermedia arts | CWE |
| Menefee, Charissa | writing for stage and screen, dramatic literature, historical drama, comedy, new play development, performance of literature | CWE ENGL |
| Ockey, Gary | language assessment; quantitative research methodology; second language acquisition | TESL ALT LING |
| Ranalli, James | computer-assisted language learning; self-regulated learning; technology-mediated strategy instruction and strategy use; automated writing evaluation; teaching academic writing; introductory linguistics and linguistic analysis | TESL ALT LING |
| Remes, Justin | literature; film studies; experimental cinema; intermedia; aesthetics | ENGL |
| Rood, Craig | rhetorical criticism; rhetorical theory; rhetorical education; public address; deliberation; rhetoric and violence; public memory | RCPC RPC SP CM |
| Sams, Brandon | English and writing teacher education; curriculum studies; teacher identity; activist, social-justice oriented pedagogies; professional development | ENGL |
| Shenk, Linda | Elizabethan court poetry; early modern drama; Shakespeare; international politics and diplomatic culture; Queen Elizabeth I; rhetoric and performance | ENGL |
| Sivils, Matthew | 19th-century American literature; environmental literature; ecocriticism; textual studies; literature of the American South | ENGL |
| Slagell, Amy | speech communication; public address; 19th-century women’s oratory | RCPC RPC SP CM |
| Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, Sinem | oral communication skills; L2 pronunciation teaching and learning; computer-assisted language learning; linguistics; ESL/EFL | TESL ALT LING |
| Torrance, Mark** | combining biometric technology (including eye-tracking and keystroke logging) in writing research; cognitive psychology | ALT |
| Tye-Williams, Stacy | organizational communication, workplace dignity, work-life negotiation, gender and communication, narrative, hope, sustainability, community organizing, workplace bullying and harassment. and qualitative methodology | RCPC RPC |
| Withers, Jeremy | science fiction; literary theory; nature, ecology, and literature; criticism; medieval literature; film studies | ENGL |
| York, Eric | rhetoric of technology, user experience design, technical and professional communication, multimodal composition, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies | RCPC RPC |
| Zuck, Rochelle | early American literature and culture; transnational literatures and cultures; African American literature; Native American literature; print culture and periodical literature; writings of James Fenimore Cooper | ENGL |