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English Epilogue: October 2026
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English Epilogue is a monthly CSU English community newsletter. Here, you can catch up on department news, faculty and student achievements, upcoming events, opportunities, and highlights from across our vibrant…
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CSU Center for Literary Publishing wins $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
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Read More: CSU Center for Literary Publishing wins $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the ArtsThe Center for Literary Publishing at CSU has been awarded a $10,000 Art Works grant from NEA to support national and regional publications in 2020. Click for the story.
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In Poems: Claiming a culture
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Read More: In Poems: Claiming a cultureIn how to Dress a Fish, Abigail Chabitnoy examines effects of forced assimilation of Native American People on descendents like herself. Click for excerpts.
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1970: Old Main burns
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Read More: 1970: Old Main burnsAt 11:58 p.m. on May 8, 1970, a University police officer called in a fire burning at Old Main. The blaze, which started in the basement, soon consumed the 92-year-old structure. Stymied by an inadequate water supply, firefighters were unable to save one of the institution’s first two buildings. The…
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I’ve Got a Question, by Tyler Toy
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Read More: I’ve Got a Question, by Tyler ToyIt has become a weird thing, to me, to read and write toward a theme, some assertion about human nature. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Is the job of the writer to parse all of their words, to consider whether or not each line, each sentence,…
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Xavier Hadley this year’s MLK Day spoken word winner
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Read More: Xavier Hadley this year’s MLK Day spoken word winnerCreative writing and ethnic studies double major Xavier Hadley wins the annual Black/African American Cultural Center’s spoken word competition.
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Xavier Hadley this year’s MLK Day spoken word winner
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Read More: Xavier Hadley this year’s MLK Day spoken word winnerCreative writing and ethnic studies double major Xavier Hadley wins the annual Black/African American Cultural Center’s spoken word competition.
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Going medieval: Love, sex, marriage, gender
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Read More: Going medieval: Love, sex, marriage, genderCSU English Assistant Professor Lynn Shutters is a Thomas Mark Scholar specializing in gender, sexuality, marriage and changing cultural norms in the Middle Ages. Click for the story.
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Going medieval: Love, sex, marriage, gender
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Read More: Going medieval: Love, sex, marriage, genderCSU professor delves into ‘love language’ of the Middle Ages By Gabe Saldana Lynn Shutters, assistant professor in the Department of English at Colorado State University, closes 2019 on the heels of two important accolades. Formerly a non-tenure-track special assistant professor, Shutters accepted a tenure-track position in fall. She also…
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Women in the English Department
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Read More: Women in the English DepartmentFrom the earliest days of the institution that is now Colorado State University, English was taught, and women taught English. Although the first person to teach an English course was its first president, Dr. E. E. Edwards, the first to be hired specifically for that task was Elizabeth G. Bell,…
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1969: Woodstock, moon landing, Nixon, more
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Read More: 1969: Woodstock, moon landing, Nixon, moreReaders aware of the many 50th anniversaries marked this year or who themselves recall the year, know that “noteworthy,” “momentous,” and “pivotal” can be applied to the events of 1969 without hyperbole. Woodstock, the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Stonewall riots, and the inauguration of Richard Nixon might readily come…