Contact
Dept: | English |
Email: | amra@iastate.edu |
Office: | 247 Ross 527 Farm House Ln. Ames IA 50011-1054 |
Phone: | 515-520-4033 |
Office Hours: | MWF 9-11 |
Bio
Courses I’ve Taught
English 150 Critical Thinking and Composition
English 250 Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition
English 205 Popular Culture Analysis
English 302 Business Communication
English 304 Creative Writing—Fiction
English 310 Rhetorical Analysis
English 314 Technical Communication
English 330 Science Fiction
Postmodern American Literature
Degrees
Ph.D work, M.A. and B.S. studies all at Iowa State University
Research Areas
Rhetoric: Rhetorical Theory, Classical Rhetoric (Greek and Roman), Narrative as an Argumentative Medium
Literature: Earnest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Tim O’Brien, Garrison Keillor