Evgeny Chukharev
Emily Dux Speltz Wins the Outstanding Service by a Graduate Student Award

Congratulations! Emily Dux Speltz (ALT) is the recipient of the English Department’s Outstanding Service by a Graduate Student Award (awarded… Read More

A team of researchers, including Rochelle Zuck, have been awarded an NHPRC-MELLON Grant

A multicenter team has been awarded a National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC)-MELLON planning grant for collaborative digital editions in African American, Asian American,… Read More

Melissa Sevigny, CWE Alumna, wins National Outdoor Book Award in History

Melissa Sevigny, a Creative Writing and the Environment alumna (English ’13) won the National Outdoor Book Award in History.  It has also appears on the longlist… Read More

Congratulations!
The Department of English recognizes graduate student excellence in teaching

Congratulations to the following graduate students!   Recipients of the Graduate College Teaching Excellence Awards (TEA) by the Graduate Studies Committee for Fall 2023   Teaching… Read More

Linda Shenk is a Principal Investigator in a $6 million community engagement and climate adaptation project

Kristie Franz Bill Gutowski Antonio Arenas Amado Linda Shenk is a Principal Investigator in a $6 million community engagement and climate adaptation project funded by… Read More

NEW TA Q&A

Ali Ebrahimpourlighvani Makenzie Van Maanen                         1. What do you wish your students knew… Read More

Spotlight

Exploring Media Literacy, Rhetoric, and Composition with Joshua Taylor Joshua Taylor A first-year term lecturer in Iowa State University’s ISUComm Foundation Communication and Advanced Communication… Read More

UP NEXT IN ENGL 250

End-of-Semester As the semester draws to a close, Amy Walton recommends dedicating some time to frame course evaluations for students. Student ratings of teaching are… Read More

Up Next in ENGL 150

Module 3B Multimodal Remix Presentation Lesson by Katheryn Anderson Lesson Objectives:  This lesson aims to help students develop their presentation ideas, consider what content they… Read More

Director’s Letter

Lesley Erin Bartlett (Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University) Dear all, As decidedly uncool as it is, I love a good greatest hits album. George Strait’s 50… Read More

Director’s Letter

Lesley Erin Bartlett (Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University) Like so many other elder millennials who grew up in the US, I consider The Goonies a formative… Read More

A Chat with Cath Engstrom, Friend of the Ag Community

Catherine “Cath” Engstrom started teaching at Iowa State in January of 2012, and has been teaching ISUComm Foundation Courses for the past eleven… Read More

NEW TA Q&A

Marisol Karcs Gi Jung Kim 1.  What do you wish your students knew about you? Marisol Karcs, M.F.A, CWE: That I… Read More

UP NEXT IN ENGL 250

ENGL 250 – Multimodal Arguments To help students prepare for the Multimodal Arguments module, Jessi Brock has designed an activity that will help… Read More

Up Next in ENGL 150

ENGL 150 – Multimodal Remix   Allya Yourish To help students prepare for the Multimodal Remix module,  Allya Yourish has designed a lesson… Read More

The Department of English continues its collaboration with John Deere

This past summer, faculty from Iowa State University’s Department of English helped high school apprentices in welding and machinery at John Deere sharpen their writing… Read More

Ananda Muhammad is awarded a TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant

Ananda Muhammad is awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Grant  from The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF). Ananda is a doctoral candidate in applied… Read More

Debra Marquart
Debra Marquart has a new collection published this August

Gratitude with Dogs under Stars features selections from Debra Marquart’s three collections of lyric poetry (Small Buried Things, New Rivers Press 2015; From Sweetness, Pearl Editions… Read More