Academic Engagement Dashboard: Book Displays
Book Displays - Plans/Dates to Share and Negotiate with Colleagues
Please add notes about upcoming plans for book displays so we can share work in a coordinated fashion on dates and avoid overlaps.
Please provide a list of the titles in your display to Brenda Schippers.
2025-26 Displays
- August/September - Shelf Care (Kate Johnson)
- October - Dark Academic & Gothic Fiction (Kate Johnson)
- November - Nature Writing (Olivia Bishop - grad student employee supervised by Jenay)
- December/January - eBooks (Katie DeVries)
- February - TBD
- March - TBD
- April - National Poetry Month (Brett Cloyd)
2024 Displays
- August/September 15th - Pages & Podcasts
- October 21th to Novemrber 8 - Dia De Los Muertos
- September 19th thru October 19th - Celebrating the authors of LaNA3 (Latino/Native American) Alumni Alliance - (Rachel Garza Carreón/Elizabeth Riordan)
- June/July 2024 - Olympics/Paris
- March 2024 - What's Your Roman Empire - (Janalyn Moss)
2023 Displays
- December 2023 - The Book is Better than the Movie - (Janalyn Moss)
- November 2023 - National Native American Heritage Month (Jenay Solomon) First Gen College Celebration (Nov 6-10) (Andrea Anderson)
- October 2023 - I Read Banned Books (Janalyn Moss/Rita Soenksen)
- September 2023 - What You Want (until Sept. 15)/In a Time of Witness w/Stanley Museum (Kathryn Reuter)
- August - What You Want, Baby, I Got It - genre display (Janalyn Moss)
- July 2023 - Ebooks (Katie Hassman)
- June 2023 - Ebooks (Katie Hassman)
- May 2023 -
- April 2023 - Poetry (Lisa Gardinier, Hannah, Rita Soenksen)
- March 2023 - 10th Anniversary of Spanish MFA (Lisa Gardinier)
- February 2023 - Black Joy/Creativity (Rita Soenksen)
2022 Displays
- December 2022/January 2023 - Cozy reads (Jenay Dougherty)
- November 2022 - Student picks (Mykle Clark and Kelly Hangauer)
- September 18-24, 2022 - Banned Books Week (Rita Soenksen) [New Books, one shelving unit]
- September until November 2022 - Latinx Heritage Month (Rachel Garza Carreón)
- August 2022 - Young Adult Books (Janalyn Moss)
- June 2022- Pride Month (Rita Soenksen) - up through July
- May 2022 - Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Rita Soenksen)
- April 2022 - National Poetry Month (Rita Soenksen)
- March 2022 - Literature, Culture, and History of Russia and Ukraine (Janalyn Moss and Lisa Gardinier)
- February 2022 - Black Authors at Iowa
2021 Displays
- September 2021 - Black Excellence at University of Iowa (Katie Hassman and Rita Soenksen)
2019 Displays
- April 2019 - Sexual Assault Awareness Month - Cathy Cranston in collaboration with RVAP; ordered branded SAAM swag from National Sexual Violence Resource Center
2024
- January 2024 - Warm Welcome Back - tropical and travel (Rita Soenksen)
- February 2024 -
- March 2024 - Developmental Disabilities (Rita Soenksen)
- April 2024 - Poetry (Rita Soenksen)
- May 2024 -
2023
- February 2023 - Star Wars (Janalyn Moss)
- March 2023 - Star Wars (Janalyn Moss)
- April 2023 - Earth Day (Brett Cloyd)
- May 2023 - Spies and surveillance (Rita Soenksen)
- June 2023 - Spies and surveillance (Rita Soenksen)
- July 2023 - Spies and surveillance (Rita Soenksen)
- August 2023 - 50 Years of Hip Hop (Rita Soenksen)
- September 2023 -
- October 2023 - Monsters (Tsuyoshi Harada)
- November 2023 -
- December 2023 -
Recurring Displays
- International Writing Program welcome displays in the New Books area coincide with the first week of the residency -- newest available material, original language or English, with displayable covers, by/about IWP alumni from the same countries in the incoming residency (Lisa)
- Banned Books week
2023
2022
- September 18 - 24, 2022 - Banned Books Week (Rita Soenksen and Janalyn Moss) On one shelving unit only
- August 22-27ish, 2022 - IWP welcome display (Lisa Gardinier)
- March 2022 - IWP Welcome (new books area (Lisa Gardinier)
2021
- October 2021 - IWP Welcome (Lisa Gardinier)