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Sarah Chase Cosby and Brenda Tyrrell, MA graduate students in English, present at Midwest Popular Culture Association

In early October, Sarah Chase Crosby and Brenda Tyrrell presented papers at the Midwest Popular Culture Association annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The papers were featured in a session focused on adaptations of popular fiction. Sarah’s paper, “Frozen’s Adaptation of Gendered Spaces: True Love’s Empowering Trend,” discussed the similarities between Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen and Frozen, as … Continue reading Sarah Chase Cosby and Brenda Tyrrell, MA graduate students in English, present at Midwest Popular Culture Association

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Rachel Murdock and Matt Baker Present Study on Narratives of Job Loss

Rachel Murdock and Matt Baker, PhD students in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program, presented their study on Narratives of Job Loss at the 2015 National Communication Association conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. They are currently developing ways of expressing alternative master narratives and plan to submit the article for publication during summer 2016. Under … Continue reading Rachel Murdock and Matt Baker Present Study on Narratives of Job Loss

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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 Faculty, challenges the notion that late-career faculty resist technology. Instead, this phenomenological study of five professors recognized for excellence in college teaching shows a willingness to incorporate technology when it … Continue reading Blakely published in College Teaching

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“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 the Iowa State University’s TESL/Applied Linguistics M.A. Program with a specialization in Teaching English to L1 Spanish Learners. In addition to her master’s coursework, Jennifer also enjoys her work as a … Continue reading “Crossing the Academic Border” Q and A With Jennifer Musgrove, WLC Spanish Teaching Assistant

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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 regularly around the country about issues related to fracking and the Bakken oil boom and is a fellow at the Black Earth Institute. His chapbook of poems, Ruin: Elegies from the … Continue reading Orion magazine names Iowa State MFA student as new reviews editor

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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 recognized at the Iowa Author Awards Dinner on October 27, 2015.  Professor Nakadate’s most recent book is Looking After Minidoka:  An American Memoir(Indiana, 2013).  Other Iowa State English Department-related writers who … Continue reading Emeritus University Professor of English Neil Nakadate named 2015 Iowa Author by Des Moines Public Library Foundation

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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 English pronunciation: history, descriptions, varieties, how it is different in connected speech than in isolated and carefully pronounced words, acquisition by children and by foreign language learners, and teaching.