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Archive: 2020

  • Withers wins teaching award

    Jeremy Withers is an associate professor in the ISU Department of English, where he teaches such subjects as science fiction, Romantic and Victorian literature, and the history of the English language. The author of two books, Withers has written and edited extensively on the topics of bicycles and transportation in…

    November 17, 2020

  • Amy Erica Smith quoted in New York Times article

    Amy Erica Smith, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, was quoted in a November 16 New York Times article, “As Brazil’s Covid Crisis Eases, Bolsonaro Sees Rising Popularity.”…

    November 17, 2020

  • Michele Schaal publishes chapter in “Transgression(s) in Twenty-First Century Women’s Writing in French”

    Michele Schaal,associate professor of French and women’s and gender studies, has published the following book chapter: “Overstepping and Blurring Boundaries: Queer(ing) Autofiction in Wendy Delorme’s La Mere, la Sainte et la Putain.” The chapter appears in the book, “Transgression(s) in Twenty-First Century Women’s Writing in French” which is…

    November 13, 2020

  • Michele Schaal co-edits special issue and publishes article in French Cultural Studies

    Michele Schaal, associate professor of French and women’s and gender studies, has co-edited a special issue for the journal French Cultural Studies. The special issue is titled “Contemporary Feminisms.” In the special issue, Schaal has published the following article, “From Actions to Words: FEMEN’s Fourth-Wave Manifestos.”…

    November 13, 2020

  • Zhijun Wu publishes paper on Plos One

    Zhijun Wu, professor in the Department of Mathematics, has published a paper on PLOS ONE, “Why multilingual, and how to keep it – an evolutionary dynamics perspective.” PLOS ONE is an inclusive journal community working together to advance science for the benefit of society, now and in…

    November 13, 2020

  • Rachel McKenny’s debut novel will publish in December

    English and Speech Department faculty member, Rachel Mans McKenny’s debut novel “The Butterfly Effect,” will be published on December 8th. Her book will be distributed by Penguin Random House. Set partially in Ames, the novel follows an ISU Ph.D. entomology student.

    November 4, 2020

  • Stephen Biggs and Heimir Geirsson to publish “The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference”

    Steven Biggs and Heimir Geirsson, faculty members in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will publish “The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference” in December. Biggs is an associate professor and Geirsson is a professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. “The Routledge Handbook…

    November 3, 2020

  • David A.M. Peterson publishes article in Political Psychology

    David A.M. Peterson, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Lucken Professor of Political Science, together with Maxwell B. Allamong, published an article in Political Psychology The article is tiled, “Screw Those Guys: Polarization, Empathy, and Attitudes About Out‐Partisans.” Political Psychology, the journal…

    November 3, 2020