The 25 Year Club honors loyal Iowa State University faculty and staff for their continuous service of 25, 35, 45 or 50 years. This year Christiana Langenberg (35 years), Donna Niday (25 years), and Deanna Stumbo (35 years) were recognized for their contributions to the Department of English. Looking back on their time with Iowa … Continue reading Congratulations, Iowa State University 25 Year Club Members!
She applied to study at the University of Oxford through Arcadia University, one of Iowa State’s affiliated study abroad institutions. Arcadia sent her application directly to the Visiting Student department at Lady Margaret Hall, which is the specific college she decided to apply to. The application process involved submitting about 25 pages of written academic … Continue reading Lydia Lee will be a Visiting Student at the University of Oxford at Lady Margaret Hall (one of Oxford’s 45 colleges).
This fall, an amazing team of researchers is hoping to begin the process of creating an automatic pronunciation assessment tool to help identify both speech disorders and second-language learning difficulties in children, thus bridging a gap between speech–language pathology and second-language instruction. On the team, we have three professors, Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen, John Levis, and Gary … Continue reading ALT team of researchers are awarded an LAS Seed Grant for Social Sciences
Cordella Press will publish Bird Body in August 2022. From Cordelia Press Bird Body wrestles with the gray space of girlhood: learning how to have a body, how to weather sexual evolution and trespass, and how to become, inspite, despite. Through a surrealist lens, the speaker moves through the lessons violence has taught them, wrangling … Continue reading Zoe Fay-Stindt, MFA writer, has been awarded the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize for her chapbook, Bird Body.
Nigerian Publisher, Griots’ Lounge, publishes Nomad, a new collection from Creative Writing Postdoc Fellow, Romeo Oriogun. Blurbs Romeo Oriogun’s poetry explores alterity and displacement – of location, of intimate physical spaces, of color/race, the remnant music of Caliban. He does this with a deft hand and an instinctive feel for the cadences of the lyric. … Continue reading Creative Writing Postdoc Fellow, Romeo Oriogun, has “Nomads”, a new collection published from Nigerian Publisher, Griots’ Lounge.
Fall 2022; T/Th 2:10-3:25 pm Dr. Rochelle Raineri Zuck Have you ever wondered what it was like to write with a quill pen or to make books using a letterpress printing press? How literary “technologies” shaped the development of American literature? How networks of writers and readers created innovative and impactful literary genres? We’ll explore … Continue reading English 441: Seminar in American Literature (Theme: American Literature and Innovation)
All PART mentors and first year graduate students are invited to meet up for lunch and conversation on Monday, February 21st 11:30-1pm Ross 212. A pizza lunch will be provided. Feel free to come and go but please communicate with your mentor/mentee so you can be sure to connect! Please RSVP so we know how many … Continue reading PART Mentoring Lunch
John Carter, Natalie Deam, and Kendra Tillberry will be reading.
Matt Moore and Julia Bilek will be reading.
Zoë Fay-Stindt, Kelsey Zimmerman, Leah VanSyckel, and Fred Johnson will be reading.