07.11.2022 By Dan Kirkpatrick, Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Research The Office of the Vice President for Research has selected Matthew Sivils to serve as the new director of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (CEAH) at Iowa State University. Sivils, an LAS (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Dean’s Professor in … Continue reading Matthew Sivils Appointed New Director of CEAH
Critical Literary Analysis Writing Award Awarded to an undergraduate or a graduate student for a single piece of critical exposition originally written for an English course at Iowa State University Daphne Brewer Cross-Disciplinary Linguistics Scholarship Awarded annually to one student majoring in linguistics for exceptional academic performance Adam Haut EnglQueer Outreach Award An annual award for raising awareness … Continue reading Congratulations Spring 2022 Graduate & Undergraduate Award Winners!
Name Major Professor Title of MA Thesis (T), MA Creative Component (CC), MFA Thesis (T), or PhD Dissertation (D) Anderson, Katheryn Donna Niday Edgar Allan Poe: The man, the stories, the experience (CC) Arp, Amanda Margaret LaWare Theorizing a fat rhetoric: Making space for the body in rhetoric and beyond (D) … Continue reading Congratulations to the following graduate students in the Department of English who will receive their MA, MFA, or PhD degrees in Spring 2022!
Taylor Brorby, a 2018 alum of the MFA Program in CWE, has just published his memoir, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land. It just received a rave review in The New York Times. You can also read his interview in Black Earth Institute at https://blackearthinstitute.org/growing-up-gay-in-a-fractured-land-an-interview-with-taylor-brorby/. Taylor, an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at … Continue reading Taylor Brorby, a 2018 alum of the MFA Program in CWE, has just published his memoir.
This award focuses on graduate students who go above and beyond their required teaching expectations. By teaching extra courses, getting excellent marks in evaluations, or by creating and leading their own courses, this award is given to multiple students each year. Recipients receive a certificate and a financial award. Congratulations on the recognition of your outstanding … Continue reading Allison Durazzi and Carrie Ann Johnson received the Teaching Excellence Award from the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.
Mark your calendar: Fall 2022 Department Meetings (Wednesdays at 1:10 pm – 2 pm):
Mark your calendar: Fall 2022 Department Meetings (Wednesdays at 1:10 pm – 2 pm):