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  • Matt Sivils publishes book chapter

    Matt Sivils, professor in the Department of English, has published a book chapter “Monstrous Stewardship and the Plantation in Chesnutt’s ‘The Goophered Grapevine.’” The chapter was published in the book “Stewardship and the Future of the Planet: Promise and Paradoxes” which was released by Routledge in July…

  • Matt Sivils publishes journal article in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews

    Matt Sivils, professor in the Department of English, has published a journal article in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (ANQ). The article “‘That Noisome and Contagious Receptacle’: Quarantine and Horror in Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘The Man at Home,’” was published in the July…

  • Allison Durazzi presents at International Professional Communication Conference in Ireland

    Allison Durazzi (Ph.D. ‘23 Rhetoric and Professional Communications) recently presented at the International Professional Communication Conference at the University of Limerick in Ireland. The conference is sponsored by IEEE’s Professional Communication Society. Durazzi’s talk, “The Case for Supplemental Style Guides,” demonstrated the value of using community-authored guides when…

  • Tracy Lucht awarded Best Article prize by American Journalism Historians Association

    American Journalism, the peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the American Journalism Historians Association, awarded its 2022 Best Article prize to Tracy Lucht, associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University. This annual award honors the best of the best scholarship that was published in…

  • Ann Oberhauser delivers keynote at International Conference on Crisis, Recovery and Gender

    Ann M. Oberhauser, professor in the Department of Sociology, delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Crisis, Recovery and Gender. The July conference was held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and was organized by the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography. The…

  • Welders assemble parts at John Deere facility.
    Apprentices hone their writing, speaking skills through ISU-John Deere partnership

    Department of English faculty members developed the curriculum and serve as on-site instructors for student communication trainings.

  • Nell Gabiam and Scott Feinstein awarded National Science Foundation grant

    Nell Gabiam and Scott Feinstein have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the integration of Ukrainian refugees into the United States. Gabiam, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, and Feinstein, associate professor in the Department of Political…

  • Liz Hergert voted president-elect of Career Professionals of Iowa

    Liz Hergert, career advisor for Career Services in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been voted president-elect of Career Professionals of Iowa (CPI) for 2022-2023. Hergert will ascend to the position of president for 2023-2024. During the following year, she will serve as past president.