CLAS selects Cinda Coggins Mosher for Dean's Distinguished Lecturer Award

Friday, April 10, 2015

Cinda Coggins-MosherThe University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) has announced that Cinda Coggins Mosher of the Department of Rhetoric is the recipient of the college's inaugural Dean's Distinguished Lecturer Award. This award recognizes excellence in teaching and service by a lecturer as evidenced in their record for advancement to senior lecturer.

"Dr. Mosher is an exemplary and innovative teacher," CLAS Dean Chaden Djalali said. "Her passion for teaching and her dedication to her students comes through in her multifaceted work and impacts her students in countless ways. She is an inspiration to her fellow faculty members, and no one is more deserving than she to receive our first Dean's Distinguished Lecturer Award."

Mosher, who also won the 2015 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence and the 2013 Collegiate Teaching Award, is a full-time lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric and director of the UI Speaking Center. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa in 2001. Her scholarly interests include composition, speech, hypertext fiction and theory, disjunctive poetry and prose, writing and speaking center pedagogy, censorship, and academic freedom.

Since joining the faculty in 2001, Mosher has taught many rhetoric courses, led the department's teaching practicum, tutored and directed the Writing and Speaking Centers, acted as a commenting mentor for the Undergraduate Fellows program, and served as a teaching advisor to teaching assistants in the department. She also teaches Guided Independent Study rhetoric courses for the UI Division of Continuing Education, teaches rhetoric to students from China, Hong Kong, India, and Mexico in the Belin-Blank Summer BESTS program, and edits for IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering.

Her publications include: Panopticism, or Just Paying Attention? (2008), When Diversities Clash: Tutoring Students through Initially Inaccessible Texts (Purdue Writing Center, 2007), Invitations and Voices: Fostering Creative Expression (2008, Hampton Press), Professing Rhetoric: Proceedings of the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, co-editor (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002), and "Separation vs. Solidarity: Building and Sustaining a Graduate Employee Union" (MMLA Journal, 2001).


The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.