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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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Black History Month: Audre Lorde
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Read More: Black History Month: Audre LordeAudre Lorde was a black writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, teacher, and civil rights activist, who described herself as a “lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Her poems and prose largely dealt with issues related to civil rights, feminism, and the exploration of black female identity. Jerome Brooks says in Black Women Writers (1950-1980):…
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Black History Month: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Read More: Black History Month: Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates writes frankly about race in contemporary America, directly addressing timely issues from racial bias in urban policing to President Obama’s legacy as our nation’s first black president. The MacArthur Foundation, which granted Coates a Genius Grant in 2015, wrote that Coates’ work “subtly embeds the present—in the form…
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Hiring: Associate Director of Composition
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Read More: Hiring: Associate Director of CompositionPosition Description: Associate Director of Composition Starting Date: July 2017 Position Summary: The Associate Director of Composition joins a team of rhetoric and composition faculty working to develop and assess first-year and advanced composition coursework within the English Department at Colorado State University. Primary administrative responsibilities include training and mentoring…
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Black History Month: Maya Angelou
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Read More: Black History Month: Maya Angelou“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Writer, poet, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou had a powerful story to tell. She led an enormously influential life, using her 1969 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings autobiography to share her…
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Black History Month: Malcolm X
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Read More: Black History Month: Malcolm XMalcolm X was a strong voice for human rights activism and an African-American Muslim minister born in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He laid the foundation for the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 70s. Unlike Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent protests, the Black Power movement incited more violence and…
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Black History Month: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Read More: Black History Month: Martin Luther King, Jr.Nearly 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, the nation still celebrates the impact he made fighting against black discrimination. For MLK Day on January 16th, over 1000 people showed up in Old Town Fort Collins to join in the MLK Day March [source http://source.colostate.edu/mlk-day-march-celebration-jan-16/]. The March ended at…
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News of Note Week of February 6
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 6On Thursday, February 9, the Community Literacy Center hosted Kay Adams, Founder and director of the Center for Journal Therapy in Denver as part of their spring SpeakOut! facilitator training event. Fourteen students, faculty, and community members participated in dialogue on writing through times of chaos. Beth Lechleitner’s collaborative poetry/visual…
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Humans of Eddy: Tiffany Akers
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Tiffany Akers~from intern Katie Haggstrom Name: Tiffany Akers [I ran into Tiffany in the basement of Eddy in the Writing Center]. What is your major/program in the English Department? I am a first year TEFL/TESL graduate student. How do you spend more of your time in Eddy Hall? Most of my time…
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“What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?”: An Interview with Career Education Manager Katie Russo
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Read More: “What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?”: An Interview with Career Education Manager Katie Russo“Often, when I tell people I’m an English major, I’m met with everything from genuine curiosity to outright dismay about my job prospects… So I decided to do some investigating. What do you say when someone asks, ‘What on Earth can you do with an English degree?’” Joyce Bohling’s first…
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“What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?”: An Interview with Career Education Manager Katie Russo
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Read More: “What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?”: An Interview with Career Education Manager Katie Russo~from intern Joyce Bohling Often, when I tell people I’m an English major, I’m met with everything from genuine curiosity to outright dismay about my job prospects. In these conversations, I’m often reminded of the opening line from one of my favorite musicals, Avenue Q: “What do you do with…