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  • English Epilogue: October 2026

    English Epilogue: October 2026

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    Emily Harnden

    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: James Baldwin

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    CLA Webmaster

    James Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Born in Harlem, he loved reading and showed a special talent for writing at an early age. He first published at 21 years old (outside the poems, short stories, and plays he’d published in his high school newspaper),…

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  • Black History Month: Frederick Douglass

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    CLA Webmaster

    Our current president didn’t make the traditional official proclamation designating February as Black History Month yesterday, but he did make a statement. Addressing a small group of African American aides and supporters to kick off Black History Month, he mentioned Frederick Douglass, but seemed to be confused about who he…

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  • Black History Month

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    CLA Webmaster

    As we kick off this month long celebration, we in the English department will focus in particular on the role of African Americans in literature. All month long, we’ll be featuring African American authors, as well as keeping you informed about various CSU Black History Month events of interest, (see the…

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  • Black American History Month: Langston Hughes

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    James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist born on February 1, 1902, (Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes!). He was one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry, and is considered a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. Along with poetry, he wrote…

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  • Black History Month

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    CLA Webmaster

    Video: Origins of Black History Month, “A brief look at the history of African Americans and Black History Month” from the History Channel. Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans, and is a time for recognizing the central role…

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  • News of Note Week of January 23

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    CLA Webmaster

    SueEllen Campbell has three recent publications: “Making Climate Change Our Job,” the lead article in Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, eds. Siperstein, Hall, and LeMenager, Routledge, 2017; the forward, “Sunrise, Celebration,” to Ellen Wohl, Rhythms of Change in Rocky Mountain National Park, Univ. of Utah Press, 2016; and “The…

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  • In Memory of John Pratt

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    CLA Webmaster

    In Spring 2016, English major Alexander (Alec) Pearson did an internship where he researched department history. He graduated at the end of that same semester, earning his Bachelor of Arts in English with a writing concentration. Alec collected and wrote a lot of material that semester. One thing he did…

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  • In Memory of John Pratt

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    CLA Webmaster

    In Spring 2016, English major Alexander (Alec) Pearson did an internship where he researched department history. He graduated at the end of that same semester, earning his Bachelor of Arts in English with a writing concentration. Alec collected and wrote a lot of material that semester. One thing he did…

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  • Humans of Eddy: Matt Junger

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    CLA Webmaster

    Matt Junger Landscape Architecture Eddy Computer Lab Monitor What are you doing in Eddy Hall? I supervise the lab and make sure people aren’t being fools in here. I make sure it looks nice and people aren’t bringing food or drink. How do you spend most of your time here…

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  • English Major Kaitlyn Phillips on Education

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    CLA Webmaster

    Kaitlyn Phillips is an English major with a concentration in Education, and was one of our communications interns in Spring 2016. “I hope to one day be the kind of teacher that creates the same sense of community in her classroom that I’ve found here in the university’s English department.”…

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