Department of English
Dear all, If you missed Stuart Selber’s talk, “Framing AI for Curriculum Reform,” you may watch it here. Selber’s talk offered useful and responsible ways of thinking about AI in writing classes, and it was the unofficial kickoff to the ISUComm Foundation Courses Redesign Institute, which takes place in June (detailed information can be found … Continue reading Director’s Letter — April 2024 (End of semester)
The end of the semester often focuses on reflection, and Ali Ebrahimpourlighvani and Sam Arthur have taken shared activities that encourage students to put their design skills into practice while sharing about themselves and their experiences. Ali’s activity, “My Life’s Two-Minute Snapshot,” gives students the opportunity to take the floor in mini oral single-slide presentations. … Continue reading Up Next in ENGL 150/250 – Multimodal Reflection Activities
Cornell Brellenthin is an instructor teaching in the ISUComm Foundation Courses program, an active faculty member in the ISUComm mentorship program, and a creative writer exploring genres such as magical realism. While Brellenthin has been teaching for two decades now, she originally came to academia later in her career: she began work in the banking … Continue reading Instructor Spotlight: Finding Voice through Reflection and Imagination with Cornell Brellenthin
Jorge Ambacher, MA, ENGL Samuel Arthur, MA, ENGL Zack Bukovich, MFA, CWE Haley Greer, PhD, RPC Droste Hennings, MA, TESL Katie Painter, MA, ENGL What do you wish your students knew about you? Jorge: One thing … Continue reading New TA Q&A
Evgeny Chukharev (PI) and Emily Dux Speltz (Co-PI) received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to organize a workshop on how humans and artificial intelligence systems comprehend and generate written language. Workshop participants will discuss their current research, identify key challenges, explore possible solutions, and map future research directions. Through dialogue between the cognitive, … Continue reading Evgeny Chukharev & Emily Dux Speltz received a grant from the National Science Foundation
Sharon Wiederanders, an RCPC alum who works for Garmin, will be the guest speaker at our next STC meeting on Tuesday, April 9, at 5:30 in Ross 212. Everyone is welcome!
Dear all, I have great news! Amy Walton, Brenna Dixon, and I were awarded a Miller Grant to lead the ISUComm Foundation Courses Redesign Institute, which will bring together instructors—term faculty, graduate students, and TTE faculty—this summer to collaboratively create and update assignments and learning activities for 150, 250, and 250H. I’ll send out a … Continue reading Director’s Letter
In conjunction with the ISUComm Foundation Courses Program’s 4/3/24 Brown Bag Session, which will focus on ways to improve and innovate peer review, Connor Ferguson has prepared a structure for peer review based on workshop styles in creative writing programs. This approach emphasizes care and collaboration in the writing process, and encourages a discussion based … Continue reading Up Next in ENGL 150
Samuel Piccone is an instructor teaching across the ISUComm Program (ENGL 150, 250, 302, and multiple learning communities), integrating creative writing pedagogy and radical revision approaches to his courses. Piccone started his academic career at the University of Colorado, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English; afterwards, he attended DePaul University in Chicago and graduated … Continue reading Instructor Spotlight: Creativity, Revision, and Collaboration in the ISUComm Classroom with Samuel Piccone