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Gulbahar Beckett has had her book translated into Chinese

Gulbahar Beckett, professor in Applied Linguistics and Technology, along with former faculty member Tammy Slater have had their book, Global Perspectives on Project-Based Language Learning, translated into Chinese and published in Beijing, P.R.C.  Drs. Beckett and Slater are excited because they feel that only the most distinguished work with the highest potential for transformative impact … Continue reading Gulbahar Beckett has had her book translated into Chinese

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A new research grant is funded

Evgeny Chukharev, as part of an interdisciplinary team led by Veterinary Medicine researchers (PI: Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu), has received a new three-year, $150,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a project titled “Mapit: Using Machine Learning And Text Mining Techniques To Develop A Mapping Tool For Veterinary Medicine Curriculum”. On this project, Evgeny will lead corpus … Continue reading A new research grant is funded

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NEW TA Q&A

                            1.  What do you wish your students knew about you? Marisol Karcs, MFA, CWE: That I love learning languages. Gi Jung Kim, PHD, ALT: The fact that I’ve just started off my academic journey at ISU like them.    2.  What … Continue reading NEW TA Q&A

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Congratulations to the 2023 Department of English LAS Award Winners

Congratulations and thank you for all of your hard work! Lesley Bartlett – LAS Award for Early Achievement in Teaching. This award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding teaching performance unusually early in their professional careers. Tina Coffelt – LAS International Service Award. This award recognizes ISU faculty for outstanding international service, in terms of teaching, … Continue reading Congratulations to the 2023 Department of English LAS Award Winners

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Two graduate students win awards at the Graduate Student Research Conference

Congratulations!  Kelli Fitzpatrick, graduate student in Creative Writing and the Environment, won first place in the Creative Component presentation category.  Her talk included her research for her thesis project, a solarpunk climate fiction novel. “Lots of visitors to my station commented that seeing my project helped them understand the kind of research processes English/Creative Writing … Continue reading Two graduate students win awards at the Graduate Student Research Conference

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Fall 2022 Convocation

Congratulations to the Department of English Fall 2022 graduates. This is a wonderful accomplishment.  Best wishes as you take the next step in your journey!    

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Congratulations to the following graduate students in the Department of English who will receive their MA, MFA, or PhD degrees in Spring 2022!

  Name Major Professor Title of MA Thesis (T), MA Creative Component (CC), MFA Thesis (T), or PhD Dissertation (D)       Anderson, Katheryn Donna Niday Edgar Allan Poe: The man, the stories, the experience (CC) Arp, Amanda Margaret LaWare Theorizing a fat rhetoric:  Making space for the body in rhetoric and beyond (D) … Continue reading Congratulations to the following graduate students in the Department of English who will receive their MA, MFA, or PhD degrees in Spring 2022!

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ALT team of researchers are awarded an LAS Seed Grant for Social Sciences

This fall, an amazing team of researchers is hoping to begin the process of creating an automatic pronunciation assessment tool to help identify both speech disorders and second-language learning difficulties in children, thus bridging a gap between speech–language pathology and second-language instruction. On the team, we have three professors, Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen, John Levis, and Gary … Continue reading ALT team of researchers are awarded an LAS Seed Grant for Social Sciences