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Tara Bynum

Tara Bynum: Finding Joy in Black Writing

Friday, February 10, 2023
Tara Bynum was recently interviewed on PBS' Amanpour & Co.
Fall 2022 AHI Recipients

OVPR selects faculty for Fall 2022 AHI Awards

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.
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Donika Kelly receives National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

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.
Tara Bynum

Tara Bynum publishes piece in Public Books

Thursday, November 10, 2022
Assistant Professor Tara Bynum recently had a piece titled "Failure's Gifts" published in Public Books.

UI professors selected for multi-state NSF project to improve ‘blue economy’

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.
Harry Stecopoulos

Harry Stecopoulos featured in Iowa Now publication

Thursday, October 20, 2022
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.
Faculty Awards medallion

John D'Agata awarded named professorship in CLAS Faculty Awards

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.
Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar's first novel accepted by Knopf!

Monday, October 17, 2022
Congratulations to Kaveh Akbar, whose first novel Martyr! was just accepted by Knopf! It is slated to come out early 2024!

Iowa surpasses Harvard, Princeton as No. 2 for writing

Monday, September 12, 2022
Iowa’s strength in writing reaches new level in annual ‘US News’ rankings