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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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Native American Heritage Month: Louise Erdrich
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Louise ErdrichLouis Erdich was born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota. She was the oldest child from a large family of seven. Her parents were teachers who taught at a boarding school in Wahpeton, North Dakota, established by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Erdich’s Native American identity comes from her mother’s…
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Native American Heritage Month: James Welch
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: James Welch~from Jill Salahub Indian writers might come from different eras, from different geographies, from different tribes, but we all have one thing in common: We are storytellers from a long way back. And we will be heard for generations to come. ~James Welch As an undergraduate at Oregon State…
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Human of Eddy (and New Faculty): Ricki Ginsberg
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Read More: Human of Eddy (and New Faculty): Ricki GinsbergRicki Ginsberg Assistant Professor: English Education Besides your current classes, what else are you doing or have you done that we should know about? Awards? Special projects? Travel? Service work? I am working on two projects right now. One is a study of nine White teachers who work in culturally diverse urban…
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Native American Heritage Month: Eden Robinson
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Eden RobinsonEden Victoria Lena Robinson was born in 1968 in the Haisla First Nation, located in British Columbia, Canada. Robinson is part of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. As her bio on Penguin Random House Canada explains, “I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly…
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Native American Heritage Month: N. Scott Momaday
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: N. Scott MomadayN. Scott Momaday’s journey began in Oklahoma, where he was born to Natachee Scott Momaday and Alfred Morris Momaday, a writer and a painter, respectively. Momaday’s father is full-blood Kiowa, while his mother is English, Irish, French, and Cherokee, but Momaday identifies as Kiowa. About a year after Momaday was…
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Native American Heritage Month: Leslie Marmon Silko
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Leslie Marmon SilkoLeslie Marmon Silko is a writer, educator and filmmaker, and someone who has helped influence the Native American Renaissance. Silko was born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her identity as ¼ Laguna Pueblo influenced her childhood. She grew up on the edge of the Laguna Pueblo reservation but was…
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News of Note Week of October 30
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 30Camille Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers has made three exciting lists this fall, one of which was BookRiot’s 20 Great Essay Collections from 2017. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s Presentimiento has been selected by Kirkus Reviews as among “The Best Indie Books of 2017.” https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/harrison-candelaria-fletcher/presentimiento/ He also had a new lyric essay,…
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National American Indian Heritage Month: an Introduction and Sherman Alexie
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Read More: National American Indian Heritage Month: an Introduction and Sherman AlexieNovember is Native American Heritage Month. A Cherokee American Indian, J.C. Elliott-High Eagle, authored the legislation for American Indian Awareness Week in October of 1976 and it was signed by President Gerald R. Ford. This became the first official week of national recognition for the American Indian since the founding…
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"Beautiful Flesh," a Review
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Read More: "Beautiful Flesh," a Review~from Katie Haggstrom Last spring, CSU’s Center for Literary Publishing (CLP) released a collection of nonfiction essays titled Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays, edited by CLP Director Stephanie G’Schwind. As G’Schwind explains in her introduction, “With an oblique nod to Victor Frankenstein, I decided to build a body. Out of…