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Katherine Rafferty publishes research in PLoS One

Katherine Rafferty, teaching professor in the Department of Psychology, recently contributed to a peer review article published in PLoS One, the Public Library of Science One. The research article, titled Seeking HELP beyond the pill: Women’s perceptions of informed consent for medication abortion: Mixed methods research, explores how informed consent…

June 17, 2026

Michèle Schaal featured on Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast

Michèle Schaal, professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, was recently interviewed on the Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast for her book, Grrrl Writing: Virginie Despentes’s Authorial Politics (Peter Lang, 2026). Listen to the podcast…

May 26, 2026

Michèle Schaal featured on New Books Network in French Studies Podcast 

Michèle Schaal, professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, was recently interviewed on the New Books Network in French Studies podcast for her book, Grrrl Writing: Virginie Despentes’s Authorial Politics (Peter Lang, 2026). Listen to the podcast…

May 26, 2026

Cason Murphy highlighted for Shakespeare scholarship in podcast, book chapter

Submitted photo. Cason Murphy, associate professor of theatre in Iowa State University’s Department of Music and Theatre, is featured in two recent scholarly conversations examining the contested role of Shakespeare in contemporary American culture: a guest appearance on the podcast “Don’t Quill the Messenger” and a newly…

May 11, 2026

Manisha Sharma to publish in The Cream City Review

Manisha Sharma, assistant teaching professor in the Department of English, recently had a short story titled “WHAT WE OWE” accepted for publication by The Cream City Review.

April 28, 2026

Ritwik Banerji publishes book on Free Improvisation

Ritwik Banerji, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, is currently under contract for a new book titled “Suspended Critique: The Sense of Freedom in Free Improvisation.” It will be published by Oxford University Press. The book will appear in the Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound…

April 17, 2026

Jessica Jorgenson Borchert contributes chapter in Blurred Boundaries

Jessica Jorgenson Borchert, associate teaching professor in the Department of English,  has a contributed a chapter titled, “Writing as Therapy: Writing as an Academic Caregiver During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the edited collection Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor, edited by Jessica Edens McCrary and Lynee Lewis Gaillet. The…

April 15, 2026

Charles Kostelnick publishes book with SUNY Press

Charles Kostelnick, Morrill Professor in the Department of English, recently published a book, “Visual Vestiges: Time, Rhetoric, and Information Design” through SUNY Press.

April 15, 2026