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 Academic Plan Committee and the 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 Academic Plan Committee and the 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 Academic Plan Committee and the 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 Academic Plan Committee Membership and the Academic Plan (Concurrent MA)
- 5.5 Guidelines for Thesis and Creative Component (Concurrent MA)
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)
*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 |
| Boyles, Claire | Fiction, creative nonfiction, environmental journalism, creative processes, climate writing, environmental writing, literature of the American West, agrarian literature, women writers, public lands, biodiversity, water | CWE |
| Calhoun, Zachary* | writing fiction, nonfiction, poetry; climate fiction; environmental philosophy, climate justice, environmental film studies; history of philosophy and science, environmental history; fossil capitalism and colonialism; review essays, video games; flash fiction; philosophy and fiction | CWE |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Golden, Emily* | screenwriting (short form, feature length, teleplays); all varieties of playwriting; science fiction, fantasy, horror, and climate fiction; cross-genre and multi-genre writing; new play development; musical theatre | CWE |
| 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 |
| Jorgenson Borchert, Jessica* | technical communication; usability and user-experience; rhetoric and composition pedagogy; rhetoric of health and medicine; digital rhetoric | RCPC RPC |
| Kostelnick, Charles | visual communication in professional writing; literature and visual art | RCPC RPC |
| Labovich, Tara* | creative writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction); experimental and poetic forms; creativity studies and creative process; mythology, folklore, and fairytales; ecogothic; queer/LGBTQ+ literature; soilpunk; Irish literature; erasure and ekphrasis; letterpress, artist books, and visual art; creative writing publishing | CWE |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Riley, Emily* | creative writing; sci-fi; fantasy; world building; mythology and retellings; folklore and fairy tales; family stories; creative process; visual art; other narrative media like film, TV, and video games | CWE |
| 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 |
| Sharma, Manisha* | creative writing (fiction, poetry, interdisciplinary) bi/multilingual social justice; awareness poetry; fiction | CWE |
| 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 |
| Sklenar, Taylor* | creative writing (playwriting, screenwriting, game writing, and poetry); dramaturgy and new play development; non-traditional structures and site-specific theatre; dramatic literature, focus: science on stage; creative strategies for science communication and public engagement; climate communication in rural spaces; sustainable agriculture; risk communication in energy and agriculture | CWE |
| 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 |
| Tchaprazov, Stoyan* | British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century; Balkan studies; Romany studies; Victorian novel; British Romanticism; Postcolonial literature and theory | ENGL |
| 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 |
| Werner, Maximillian* | literary nonfiction; fiction; the novel; the academic novel; the essay; poetry; ecocriticism; veteran studies; film; evolutionary psychology; wildlife conflict; literary criticism; literature and the environment; screenwriting; the horror film; critical thinking; film and the American West; habitat theory; writing about war; discourse analysis; sociobiology | CWE |
| 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 |