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

Evgeny Chukharev and Abram Anders receive a competitive $850,000 NSF grant

Evgeny Chukharev and Abram Anders, in collaboration with their colleagues in the UK and the Netherlands, have been awarded a three-year, $850,000 grant from the… Read More

Director’s Letter

Lesley Erin Bartlett (Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University) Dear all, As someone who lives by an academic calendar, I usually lose September completely in the rush… Read More

Spotlight: Get to Know Deanna Stumbo – The Magic Behind ISUComm

In her 37-year tenure with Iowa State University, Deanna Stumbo has become the administrative magician of ISUComm Courses. As the ISUComm Foundation, Advanced,… Read More

UP NEXT IN ENGL 150

ENGL 150: Modeling an interview Ginnia Kovach To help students prepare for the profile assignment, Ginnia Kovach arranges guests… Read More

UP NEXT IN ENGL 250

ENGL 250 – Research Project Kelli Fitzpatrick Shalini Singh Elizabeth Wenger For the research project, Kelli Fitzpatrick,… Read More

NEW TA Q&A with Caitlin Moran and Kristen Neumann

Caitlin Moran Kristen Neumann 1. What do you wish your students knew about you? Caitlin Moran, MA, RCPC: I wish students knew that… Read More