The English Department’s Pearl Hogrefe Creative Writing Fund awards the First-Year Scholarship in Creative Writing to Iowa State University students with first-year student status (0-30 credits) whose work exemplifies promise or talent in one of the genres of creative writing. Congratulations to this year’s scholarship recipients:
07.11.2022 By Dan Kirkpatrick, Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Research The Office of the Vice President for Research has selected Matthew Sivils to serve as the new director of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (CEAH) at Iowa State University. Sivils, an LAS (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Dean’s Professor in … Continue reading Matthew Sivils Appointed New Director of CEAH
Critical Literary Analysis Writing Award Awarded to an undergraduate or a graduate student for a single piece of critical exposition originally written for an English course at Iowa State University Daphne Brewer Cross-Disciplinary Linguistics Scholarship Awarded annually to one student majoring in linguistics for exceptional academic performance Adam Haut EnglQueer Outreach Award An annual award for raising awareness … Continue reading Congratulations Spring 2022 Graduate & Undergraduate Award Winners!
Taylor Brorby, a 2018 alum of the MFA Program in CWE, has just published his memoir, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land. It just received a rave review in The New York Times. You can also read his interview in Black Earth Institute at https://blackearthinstitute.org/growing-up-gay-in-a-fractured-land-an-interview-with-taylor-brorby/. Taylor, an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at … Continue reading Taylor Brorby, a 2018 alum of the MFA Program in CWE, has just published his memoir.
This award focuses on graduate students who go above and beyond their required teaching expectations by teaching extra courses, getting excellent marks in evaluations, or creating and leading their own courses. The award is given to multiple students each year. Recipients receive a certificate and a financial award. Congratulations on the recognition of your outstanding work!
Jo Mackiewicz, Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of English at Iowa State University, recently published a book, Welding Technical Communication: Teaching and Learning Embodied Knowledge. Mackiewicz notes, “I’m graduating with my diploma in welding, a degree I started in 2018 and finished by taking night classes at DMACC Ankeny. My welding degree … Continue reading Jo Mackiewicz publishes Welding Technical Communication: Teaching and Learning Embodied Knowledge
We are pleased to announce Katie Fulton, Associate Teaching Professor, as this year’s recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Foundational Speech Communication Courses Award. This award is given annually and recognizes instructors on their excellence in teaching foundational Speech Communication courses. Awardees receive $200 and a certificate.