The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) recently held the LAS Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony. They celebrated the LAS faculty that have received donor-funded awards in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Due to Covid-19 cancellations, this is the first ceremony held since 2018. A number of Department of English faculty were recognized for their achievements: … Continue reading LAS Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony
Dr. Linda Shenk received a grant from the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research for her project “Co-producing Climate Storylines with Women Landowners in Iowa.” Led by Dr. Shenk, this project creates and tests a storytelling-based framework that allows researchers, community partners, and women landowners in Iowa (some of agriculture’s potentially influential yet silenced … Continue reading Dr. Linda Shenk received a grant from the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research
The 25 Year Club honors loyal Iowa State University faculty and staff for their continuous service of 25, 35, 45 or 50 years. This year Christiana Langenberg (35 years), Donna Niday (25 years), and Deanna Stumbo (35 years) were recognized for their contributions to the Department of English. Looking back on their time with Iowa … Continue reading Congratulations, Iowa State University 25 Year Club Members!
She applied to study at the University of Oxford through Arcadia University, one of Iowa State’s affiliated study abroad institutions. Arcadia sent her application directly to the Visiting Student department at Lady Margaret Hall, which is the specific college she decided to apply to. The application process involved submitting about 25 pages of written academic … Continue reading Lydia Lee will be a Visiting Student at the University of Oxford at Lady Margaret Hall (one of Oxford’s 45 colleges).
Cordella Press will publish Bird Body in August 2022. From Cordelia Press Bird Body wrestles with the gray space of girlhood: learning how to have a body, how to weather sexual evolution and trespass, and how to become, inspite, despite. Through a surrealist lens, the speaker moves through the lessons violence has taught them, wrangling … Continue reading Zoe Fay-Stindt, MFA writer, has been awarded the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize for her chapbook, Bird Body.
Nigerian Publisher, Griots’ Lounge, publishes Nomad, a new collection from Creative Writing Postdoc Fellow, Romeo Oriogun. Blurbs Romeo Oriogun’s poetry explores alterity and displacement – of location, of intimate physical spaces, of color/race, the remnant music of Caliban. He does this with a deft hand and an instinctive feel for the cadences of the lyric. … Continue reading Creative Writing Postdoc Fellow, Romeo Oriogun, has “Nomads”, a new collection published from Nigerian Publisher, Griots’ Lounge.
Fall 2022; T/Th 2:10-3:25 pm Dr. Rochelle Raineri Zuck Have you ever wondered what it was like to write with a quill pen or to make books using a letterpress printing press? How literary “technologies” shaped the development of American literature? How networks of writers and readers created innovative and impactful literary genres? We’ll explore … Continue reading English 441: Seminar in American Literature (Theme: American Literature and Innovation)
On November 3, faculty and alumni gathered in the Troxel Hall Atrium for a recognition ceremony to thank Janet Anderson-Hsieh, professor emerita of English, for establishing the Janet Anderson-Hsieh, PhD, Graduate Scholarship in Applied Linguistics. The Department of English chair, Volker Hegelheimer, gave the introductory remarks. Febriana Lestari is the inaugural recipient of the award. … Continue reading Janet Anderson-Hsieh, Professor Emerita of English, honored for establishing a scholarship
Ronna Faaborg Ames Tribune Published 3:14 p.m. CT Nov. 6, 2021 A national literary journal published by Iowa State’s English Department has spun-off a book publisher, Flyway Books, which is celebrating its first imprint — a children’s book titled “A Moo Cow Came Traveling.” “Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment” has been publishing poems, stories and essays … Continue reading Ames-based Flyway Books publishes its first book, the whimsical ‘A Moo Cow Came Traveling’