Languages & Communications

UNI Department of Languages & Literatures awarded more than $1 million grant for ESL teacher preparation project

The Department of Education has awarded two UNI professors a grant to launch a new project to improve English as a second language instruction.

UNI’s Fast Forward Digital Media Workshop returns in-person on Nov. 4

UNI’s Fast Forward Digital Media Workshop returns on Nov. 4 for expert media panels and demonstrations.

Writer Taylor Brorby to speak at UNI

On Oct. 12, writer Taylor Brorby will visit UNI for a public talk about his coming-of-age memoir “Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land."

UNI to host an evening with Chuy Renteria

As part of Latinx Heritage Month, the University of Northern Iowa will be hosting a reading with Jesus “Chuy” Renteria on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in Sabin 002. Renteria will read from his coming-of-age memoir, “We Heard It When We Were Young: Tales of Growing Up Mexican American in Small-Town Iowa,” which was released in 2021 by The University of Iowa Press.

UNI creative writing instructor earns residency at Writers’ Colony in Arkansas

Rachel Morgan, an instructor in UNI's Department of Languages & Literatures, spent her last days of summer in a writers' residency in Arkansas.

Fulbright scholars get immersive cultural and English learning experience at UNI

From mid-March to July, UNI's Culture and Intensive English Program hosted nine Fulbright scholars from six countries in their immersive education program.

Languages & Literatures students experience the thrill of publishing

Creative writing and professional writing students have recently experienced the incomparable thrill of publishing, both in digital and print formats.

Partnership between UNI and university in Yucatán, Mexico benefits students

By creating a pathway for language exchange and study abroad opportunities, the partnership between UNI and a university in Yucatán, Mexico, is thriving.