Eighteen University of Iowa staff members–including Cherie Hansen-Rieskamp, academic coordinator for graduate programs in the Department of English–were honored with this year’s UI Staff Council Awards for their achievements.

In this interview with NPR, Derek (DK) Nnuro talks about his debut novel, "What Napoleon Could Not Do," a book that depicts how America is seen through the eyes of three characters with African ties.

Tara Bynum was recently interviewed on PBS' Amanpour & Co.

Kathy Lavezzo and Stephen Voyce are among eight College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty receiving grant funding through the Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI), a grant program supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Award-winning poet and University of Iowa English faculty member Donika Kelly is one of 36 writers to receive a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship for 2023.

Assistant Professor Tara Bynum recently had a piece titled "Failure's Gifts" published in Public Books.

Eric Gidal, a UI English professor, will lead a team of graduate students from programs in the arts and humanities who will develop different forms of media to share stories from Iowa about nitrogen pollution and water quality.

Associate Professor of English at Iowa has published a book that argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of post-war U.S. literature.

D’Agata has been a faculty member of the university’s graduate Nonfiction Writing Program since 2005, having revamped graduate and undergraduate nonfiction writing courses throughout his time at the university.

Congratulations to Kaveh Akbar, whose first novel Martyr! was just accepted by Knopf! It is slated to come out early 2024!