Langenberg awarded the 2015 Louisville Literary Arts and Blue Mesa Review prose contest

Christiana Louisa Langenberg’s work has been chosen for the Louisville Literary Arts & Blue Mesa Review prose contest this year. Langenberg will receive $500… Read More

November 17, 2015

Blakely published in College Teaching

Barb Blakely, associate professor and member of rhetoric and professional communication, was recently published in College Teaching. The article, Pedagogical Technology Experiences of Successful Late-Career… Read More

November 2, 2015

“Crossing the Academic Border” Q and A With Jennifer Musgrove, WLC Spanish Teaching Assistant

“Crossing the Academic Border” Q and A With Jennifer Musgrove, WLC Spanish Teaching Assistant November 2, 2015 Jennifer Musgrove just completed her first year in… Read More

November 2, 2015

Orion magazine names Iowa State MFA student as new reviews editor

Award-winning essayist and poet Taylor Brorby has been named Orion‘s new reviews editor. His work has appeared in High Country News, Canary, Written River, and many others. Taylor speaks… Read More

October 29, 2015

Emeritus University Professor of English Neil Nakadate named 2015 Iowa Author by Des Moines Public Library Foundation

Emeritus University Professor of English Neil Nakadate has been named a 2015 Iowa Author by the Des Moines Public Library Foundation, and he will be… Read More

October 19, 2015

John Levis co-editor for The Handbook of English Pronunciation (published in 2015 by Wiley Blackwell)

John Levis was co-editor for The Handbook of English Pronunciation (published in 2015 by Wiley Blackwell). The Handbook contains 28 chapters (530 pages) on different aspects of… Read More

October 16, 2015

Jean Goodwin and Linda Shenk Awarded Funding from VPR’s Office

Linda Shenk and Jean Goodwin are part of a 9-member team at ISU that received a one-year $50,000 grant from the VPR’s office with additional… Read More

October 2, 2015

Educational Testing Service Grant Awarded to Elena Cotos for 2015-17

Elena Cotos, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics & Technology, received a grant from the Educational Testing Service recently for 2015-17. The project is titled “Domain… Read More

October 1, 2015

Poetry Reading with author Xavier Cavazos

Xavier Cavazos, a 2013 graduate of Iowa State’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Environment, will read from his new book of poetry, Diamond Grove… Read More

September 30, 2015

Carol Chapelle awarded grant from Educational Testing Service

Carol Chapelle and Amy Hutchison (Associate Professor in the School of Education) received a two-year $120,000 grant from Educational Testing Service to conduct foundational research… Read More

September 28, 2015

Re)discovering S(h)elves Exhibit includes work from three English majors

The current exhibit in the Christian Petersen Museum in Morrill Hall includes some fascinating art(ists) and media from ISU’s permanent collection. It posits several questions:… Read More

September 4, 2015

Premiere Issue of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company

John Levis, professor of applied linguistics, is the editor of a new international scholarly publication hosted by Iowa State University. The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation is… Read More

May 5, 2015

Brianna Burke Awarded LAS Cassling Family Faculty Award for Early Achievement in Teaching

Assistant Professor, Brianna Burke, was awarded in addition to the ISU award for early achievement in teaching, The LAS Cassling Family Faculty Award for early achievement in… Read More

May 5, 2015

Margaret Johnson Book Wins 2015 Vignette Collection Award

Margaret Johnson, Lecturer, received news that her second book won the 2015 Vignette Collection Award and is forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press. Read More

May 5, 2015

Hoyt Schmidt’s Advanced Grammar Book Published by Pearson

Advanced Grammar is a new, advanced-level grammar course that prepares English language learners for academic work. Its unique approach helps students master written grammar with the… Read More

May 4, 2015

Debra Marquart Publishes Fifth Book

Small Buried Things — Debra Marquart: Small Press Distribution. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. Pluck, swallow, bury, drive, frack. Debra Marquart’s newest poetry ranges from… Read More

April 27, 2015

David Russell, Matthew Sivils, and Susan Yager Receive Mentoring Awards

The Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost recognizes in the spring faculty members who have demonstrated exemplary mentoring of junior faculty. David Russell,… Read More

April 17, 2015

Speech Majors Argue Immigration at First-Ever Mediacom Invitational Debate, Win Scholarships

Two LAS students demonstrated their superior debating skills at the first ever Mediacom Collegiate Invitational Debate over the weekend. Speech majors Kelly Erbes and Tim… Read More

April 15, 2015

English Literature majors Sarah Chase (WGS graduate minor) and Caroline Martin granted “First Place for Best Student Paper” award at the 2015 Biennial Women and Gender Research Conference at the University of South Dakota

From left to right: Ms. Chase, Leah E. Wilson, Dr. Schaal, Tonya Tienter, and Ms. Martin. Prof. Michèle A. Schaal presided a panel with four… Read More

April 15, 2015

Recent MFA graduate, Tegan Swanson, Announced as Winner of the 2014 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize

Black Balloon Publishing, an imprint of the newly established Catapult, has announced Tegan Nia Swanson as the winner of the 2014 Horatio Nelson… Read More

March 23, 2015