Hui-Hsien Feng, PhD Student in Applied Linguistics & Technology, received a Graduate College Research Excellence Award for Fall 2015 for her dissertation entitled “Designing, implementing, and evaluating an automated writing evaluation tool for improving EFL graduate students’ abstract writing: A case in Taiwan.”
Stacy Tye-Williams, an assistant professor of communications studies and English, is a nominee for the 2015 Academic Minute Listener’s Choice Award. Tye-Williams was featured in a January 2015 segment for her research on workplace bullies. Vote and listen to Tye-Williams’ essay here. (Scroll to the vote section at the bottom of the page.) A podcast on the research … Continue reading Stacy Tye-Williams nominee for 2015 Academic Minute Listener’s Choice Award
MFA Alum, John Linstrom edits Centennial Edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s landmark agrarian manifesto, The Holy Earth: The Birth of a New Land Ethic, published by Counterpoint Press with an introduction by Wendell Berry. The Centennial Edition of The Holy Earth by Liberty Hyde Bailey — New introduction by Wendell Berry, edited by John Linstrom, forthcoming from Counterpoint Press, … Continue reading MFA Alum, John Linstrom edits Centennial Edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s landmark agrarian manifesto, The Holy Earth: The Birth of a New Land Ethic
MFA Alum, Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, System of Ghosts, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2016. Lindsay Tigue is the author of System of Ghosts, winner of the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in April 2016. She writes poetry and fiction and her work … Continue reading 2014 MFA Alum Lindsay Tigue
MFA Alum, Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, System of Ghosts, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2016. Lindsay Tigue is the author of System of Ghosts, winner of the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in April 2016. She writes poetry and fiction … Continue reading 2014 MFA Alum Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize
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
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
Matthew Sivils announced that his new edition of Paul Errington’s Of Wilderness and Wolves has now been published by the University of Iowa Press. http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2015-fall/wilderness-and-wolves.htm
Christiana Louisa Langenberg’s work has been chosen for the Louisville Literary Arts & Blue Mesa Review prose contest this year. Langenberg will receive $500 and her essay, “This is How it Could Have Gone Instead of How it Went” will be published in Blue Mesa Review, spring 2016.
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