The 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.

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 doctorate 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.

See the full story on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences website.