Department News

Linda Shenk Received a $100,000 Collaborative Planning Grant
Linda Shenk is part of the transdisciplinary team to receive a $100,000 Collaborative Planning Grant from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Shenk is… Read More

February 3, 2023
Ananda Muhammad awarded a Graduate Student Research Grant
Congratulations Ananda Muhammad! Below is her dissertation title and a brief description of the study: Designing an interaction-oriented diagnostic assessment of L2 pragmatic competence: An… Read More

February 3, 2023
Stoyan Tchaprazov won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
Stoyan Tchaprazov won for his translation from Bulgarian of The Misunderstood Civilization, by Dobri Voinikov. From the judges’ citation: A caustic satire from 1871, Dobri Voinikov’s… Read More

November 17, 2022
Paul Kimumwe, Graduate Teaching Assistant in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, has a report published by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA).
Paul Kimumwe, Graduate Teaching Assistant in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, has a report published by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern… Read More

November 17, 2022
Manisha Sharma publishes poetry in The Amethyst Review

November 17, 2022
Local kids practice science with Cy

November 17, 2022
Nergis Danis & Agata Guskaroska have Received the Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations! This award focuses on graduate students who go above and beyond their required teaching expectations by teaching extra courses, getting excellent marks in evaluations,… Read More

November 8, 2022
Abram Anders won the Association of Business Communication’s “2022 Outstanding Article in the International Journal of Business Communication” award.
Abram Anders won the Association of Business Communication’s “2022 Outstanding Article in the International Journal of Business Communication” award for his “Human-Centered Leadership Development: A… Read More

October 26, 2022
The 19th Annual Technology for Second Language Learning Conference—the first hybrid-format conference—was held October 14 & 15
Learning English Online: Research for Course Design was the theme of the 19th Annual Technology for Second Language Learning Conference—the first hybrid-format conference—held by the… Read More

October 20, 2022
Margaret LaWare invited to speak at American Council of Learned Societies workshop

September 28, 2022
Celebrate faculty and staff at LAS Fall Convocation and Awards Ceremony
Congratulations to the Department of English faculty and staff who were recognized at this Fall’s LAS Convocation and Awards Ceremony. LAS Award for Outstanding Achievement… Read More

September 14, 2022
Congratulations to the recipients of the Pearl Hogrefe First-Year Scholarship in Creative Writing
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… Read More

September 14, 2022
Allison Durazzi presents at International Professional Communication Conference in Ireland

September 12, 2022
Apprentices hone their writing, speaking skills through ISU-John Deere partnership

August 26, 2022
Matthew Sivils Appointed New Director of CEAH
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… Read More

July 15, 2022
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July 15, 2022
Congratulations Spring 2022 Graduate & Undergraduate Award Winners!
https://youtu.be/W8a1bYDXw24 Critical Literary Analysis Writing Award Awarded to an undergraduate or a graduate student for a single piece of critical exposition originally written for… Read More

June 17, 2022
Taylor Brorby, a 2018 alum of the MFA Program in CWE, has just published his memoir.
Taylor Brorby, a 2018 alum of the MFA Program in CWE, has just published his memoir, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a… Read More

June 9, 2022
Allison Durazzi and Carrie Ann Johnson received the Teaching Excellence Award from the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.
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… Read More

June 9, 2022
Jo Mackiewicz publishes Welding Technical Communication: Teaching and Learning Embodied Knowledge
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… Read More

May 13, 2022