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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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Advocacy Week: Monday, Feb 26 – Friday, March 2
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Read More: Advocacy Week: Monday, Feb 26 – Friday, March 2It’s that time again! Advocacy Week, presented by the TEFL/TESL Student Association, is just around the corner. Mini-presentations will occur all week beginning Monday, February 26th with the week culminating in a keynote address on Friday, March 2nd. This year, we are very excited to present a keynote address from…
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Black History Month: Claudia Rankine
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Read More: Black History Month: Claudia RankineI think any poem, and any writer, is always breaking open the questions beneath the poem, or the writing. You’re always trying to figure out: what gives me the right to say x or y? What does that mean? When I say this, what does it mean? How does it…
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Black History Month: Ross Gay
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Read More: Black History Month: Ross GayRoss Gay, born in 1974, is an American writer and professor, and considered by many to be one of America’s leading poets. Gay was born in Ohio but soon relocated to Pennsylvania, where he stayed until graduating from Lafayette College with a BA. He then moved on to receive an…
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Alumni Profile: J. D. Williams
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Read More: Alumni Profile: J. D. Williams~from Mary Ellen Sanger Everything bends toward a hopeful search for meaning, as J. D. Williams (B.A. Liberal Arts with a minor in English, M.A. English: English Education) describes his time at CSU and beyond: “In college, we serve knowledge to hopefully learn what the hell we’re doing on this…
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Ten Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month, a reading list from Camille Dungy
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Read More: Ten Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month, a reading list from Camille DungyTen Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month A reading list from Camille Dungy Narrowing this down to a Top Ten List was a nearly impossible assignment. So, like the books I share here, I will stretch the boundaries of the form in ways that…
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Black History Month: Alex Haley
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Read More: Black History Month: Alex Haley“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.” ~Alex Haley Author Alex Haley was born in 1921 in Ithaca, New York. His father was an agriculture professor at Alabama A&M University and his mother came from a…
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Martha Scott Trimble Lecture: Bruce Ronda
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Read More: Martha Scott Trimble Lecture: Bruce RondaBased on his recent book, The Fate of Transcendentalism. Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing (2017), Ronda’s talk explores the work of three figures associated with the nineteenth-century American transcendentalist movement or inspired by it: reformer and essayist Elizabeth Peabody, novelist Truman Nelson, and writer Annie Dillard. Each of these reveals…
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Humans of Eddy: Raad Ali A Alshammari
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Raad Ali A AlshammariRaad Ali A Alshammari What drew you to CSU and the MA English, Literature program? It is simple; a good place, a good school, and a good program. Is it true that you’re famous on Twitter? I am not that famous, but I can say I’m active on Twitter. I…
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Black History Month: Richard Wright
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Read More: Black History Month: Richard Wright~from Katie Haggstrom “The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of my by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.” ~Richard Wright Poet, essayist, and author Richard Wright was born on Rucker’s Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi in 1908.…
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Black History Month: Zadie Smith
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Read More: Black History Month: Zadie SmithZadie Smith is a British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Smith was born Sadie Smith in the north-west London borough of Brent to a Jamaican mother and an English father in 1975. When she was 14, she changed her first name to Zadie. As a child she was fond of…