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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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Kristie Yelinek, Teaching in Vietnam
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Read More: Kristie Yelinek, Teaching in VietnamIn a recent English department blog post, (What Faculty Members Really Do Over Summer Break: Kristie Yelinek), Composition Instructor Kristie Yelinek said “The great thing about teaching is having time in the summer to be able to pursue passions that I have in addition to my passion for teaching.” At…
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News of Note Week of May 2
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Read More: News of Note Week of May 2Dan Beachy-Quick will be on Colorado Matters on the Denver NPR station on May 11. Ellen Brinks has been invited to give a plenary talk at the conference “Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1920,” at Birkbeck College, University of London, in early July. Doug Cloud’s article, “Talking Climate Change…
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Reading Series: Andrew Mangan and Vauhini Vara, a Reflection by Jill Salahub
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Read More: Reading Series: Andrew Mangan and Vauhini Vara, a Reflection by Jill Salahub~From Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub Usually one of our communications interns goes to the reading and writes about the event. They’ve written some really great pieces this semester that give a good sense of what it’s like to go to a reading, what it’s like to be read a particular piece…
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(Almost) Alumni Profile: Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: (Almost) Alumni Profile: Ashley Alfirevic~From Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub English major and department communications intern Ashley Alfirevic will be graduating next week. I am incredibly sad to see her go. Ashley has worked with me as an intern doing department communications for the past year. For the past 15 years in the English department at…
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Greyrock Review Release Party, a Reflection from Intern Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: Greyrock Review Release Party, a Reflection from Intern Ashley Alfirevic~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic The last few weeks of my senior year have been filled with nostalgia for CSU, a calm fondness and bittersweet assurance that just as I finally understood all the ins and outs of the English Department, I’d soon be leaving. And as a…
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Faculty Profile: Leslee Becker
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Leslee Becker~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Name: Leslee Becker Title: Professor of English Program: Creative Writing MFA Program How would you describe your work in the English Department? It’s not that different from everybody else’s. It’s teaching, committee work, and in Creative Writing – for me anyhow. I…
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Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement
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Read More: Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement~From Assistant Professor Todd Mitchell Sixteen years ago I took a class that changed my life. I think, even then, I knew that something special was happening in John’s graduate creative nonfiction course. Several people had recommended it to me, and I’d never before encountered such an intimate and productive…
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John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good Wishes
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Read More: John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good WishesThis Thursday, May 5, the English department will be holding a very special celebration. John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell are retiring this year, and as sad as we are to see them go, we are sending them off with our best wishes at this upcoming event. To honor them on the…
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John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good Wishes
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Read More: John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good Wishes~From Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub This Thursday, May 5, the English department will be holding a very special celebration. John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell are retiring this year, and as sad as we are to see them go, we are sending them off with our best wishes at this upcoming event.…
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News of Note Week of April 25
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 25Camille Dungy’s poems have been published in two new anthologies: Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin. (W.W. Norton) and Read America(s): An Anthology (Locked Horn Press). Camille will be a member of the faculty of the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference this summer. The other conference faculty…