Department of English
We are pleased to announce Nicole Allaire, 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.
Congratulations to graduate student Ivana Rehman (ALT)! Recipient of the Graduate College Research Excellence Awards (REA) by the Graduate Studies Committee for Summer 2021 The department provides a modest scholarship award to each recipient. Each also receives a letter, certificate, and honor cord from the ISU President and recognition by ISU at commencement.
Graduate Awards AWARD Student Pearl Hogrefe Grants in Creative Writing One or more Pearl Hogrefe Grants in Creative Writing will be awarded during the spring semester to graduate students who show extraordinary promise in creative writing. These awards are open to all graduate students at Iowa State and will be given on the basis of … Continue reading Spring 2021 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Award Winners
Corpus Linguistics Student Organization (COLISTO) is hosting this semester’s second guest speaker talk to be held on April 30, Friday, from 1-2 pm. Our guest speaker is Dr. Tove Larsson, who is an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University. In her talk, she will be sharing with us her recent collaborative research on adverb placement in spoken and … Continue reading Corpus Linguistics Student Organization (COLISTO) Guest Speaker Series
Our readers this month will be Julia Bilek, Jordan Dunn, Emily Golden, and A’Ja Lyons. We hope you will be able to join us in hearing their wonderful work! If you have joined us for previous Emerging Writers readings, you will notice that this differs from past events, which were held on Thursdays. This semester, … Continue reading Emerging Writers Reading Series for March
By Amanda Ortiz-Pellot Allison Durazzi, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Rhetorical and Professional Communication program at Iowa State University, has dedicated her research to uncover some of the practices and considerations that companies employ when commemorating notable figures or social issues through their products. In this article, she explains her efforts and dives into … Continue reading Allison Durazzi talks about ice cream and why she chose Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Dr. Godwin Agboka will meet with the department and present “The Question of (In)justice: Incorporating Social Justice into Technical Communication Research” at 2 – 3 PM.
Please join us for the Writing and Media Center’s second virtual Featured Author Series Event, “Allison Boyd Justus: An Afternoon of Poetry” on Friday April 9, 2-3pm. Allison Boyd Justus is a Graduate Communication Consultant at the WMC, graduating with her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment in May 2021. Her MFA thesis, the poetry … Continue reading Allison Boyd Justus: An Afternoon of Poetry