Author Archives: Troy Rutter

Mariana Castro Azpíroz and Linda Shenk publish digital StoryMap

Mariana Castro Azpíroz, graduate student in the Creative Writing and Environment MFA program in the Department of English, and Linda Shenk, professor in the Department of English, have published a digital StoryMap entitled “Stories of the Seasons.” Stories of the Seasons is a multi-year collaboration between the…

May 14, 2025

Tony Quick publishes book chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film

Tony Quick, PhD student with the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program, recently published his book chapter “The Inauguration of Black Horror: Duane Jones’s Racial Revision of Night of the Living Dead” in The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film. The chapter discusses racial representation within the classic 1968 horror film…

April 30, 2025

Lindsay Preseau publishes article in GFL – German as a Foreign Language

Lindsay Preseau, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures,  recently published a journal article titled, “Teaching Gender-Just Language in the Era of ‘Divisive Concepts“. Recent years have seen a surge in scholarship on queer pedagogies in language classrooms. At the same time, “divisive concepts”…

April 30, 2025

Luana Lamberti publishes article in Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

Luana Lamberti, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published an article titled, “Evaluating the form of third-person anaphoric direct objects in Portuguese: A cross-dialectal study.” Both Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) permit definite third-person null direct objects (DOs) in anaphoric contexts, but…

April 28, 2025

Iowa State launches new master of financial technology degree

The Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business, in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will offer a master of financial technology program, approved by the Iowa Board of Regents at their April meeting. Delivered on campus, the new program is designed to meet the needs of…

April 25, 2025

Matthew Hill published research in PLOS One

Matthew Hill, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published an article with several co-authors in PLOS One, entitled, “Early Paleoindian use of canids, felids, and hares for bone needle production at the La Prele site, Wyoming, USA” You can read the article on the…

April 15, 2025

Matthew Hill publishes research in PeerJ

Matthew Hill, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published an article with several co-authors in PeerJ, entitled, “An update on Aenocyon dirus in the interior of North America: new records, radiocarbon dates, ZooMS spectra, and isotopic data for an iconic late Pleistocene carnivore.” You can…

April 15, 2025

Entertaining kids without technology

Tyanna Teetzen (‘26 psychology) has worked with children for over five years in a daycare facility, where she observed kids experiencing challenges with attention span, emotional regulation, and behavioral development. Through her experience, Teetzen noticed a pattern. Children who engaged in high levels of screen time had difficulties focusing and…

April 15, 2025