Please join us in Parks Library on Monday at 12:15 for the Heal the Divide on Campus reading. We’ll be sharing short plays by Iowa State playwriting students and would love to have you in the audience! HEAL THE DIVIDE ON CAMPUS A reading of new student-written plays Protest Plays Project and The Eco-Theatre Lab … Continue reading Heal the Divide on Campus Reading
Last Emerging Writers of the year! Fiction: Michael Wettengel Poetry: TBA Non-Fiction: Hagan Faye Whiteleather
Understanding Second Language Speakers: What REALLY Matters? Tracey Derwing is a Professor Emeritus of TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta. She has extensively researched second language fluency and pronunciation, especially the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accent. She will discuss what research tells … Continue reading Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics, Tracey Derwing
This Brown Bag Colloquium will be held Friday, March 29th, 12:00 – 1:00 PM in 212 Ross Hall. Please join us as Kristin Terrill will be sharing her research on graduate theses and dissertations, with an emphasis on local and global aspects of writing.
The Speech Communication Club is hosting an Alumni Night on Wednesday, April 3. Student’s do not have to be a Speech Communication major to attend. The session should provide insight to all English majors who are considering law and graduate school.
Rianne Conijn is a PhD student in Writing Analytics at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Students’ writing is commonly assessed by the final writing product, while ignoring the writing process. However, insight into the writing process could help us to better understand students’ writing, and moreover, improve learning … Continue reading Guest Speaker: Rianne Conijn, The keys to writing: Identifying patterns in students’ writing processes
The Art of Fiction A Reading & Conversation with Margot Livesey Thursday, April 25, 2019, 7:00 pm, Pioneer Room, Memorial Union Margot Livesey is the award-winning author of ten books, including a collection of stories, Learning by Heart, and eight acclaimed novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona, The House … Continue reading Hogrefe Visiting Writer Series: Margot Livesey
Epic, Funny, Sad, Strange, True: The Stories We Tell and Why We Tell Them Kira Obolensky Monday, April 8, 2019, 8:00 pm, Pioneer Room, Memorial Union In this lecture, Kira Obolensky will talk about her work as a playwright-in-residence with the award-winning Ten Thousand Things. Over the course of ten years, Kira has written a … Continue reading Hogrefe Visiting Writer Series: Kira Obolensky