Category: Alumni Profiles
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Celebrating our "Homecoming" to Eddy: Favorite Memories from Alumni
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Read More: Celebrating our "Homecoming" to Eddy: Favorite Memories from AlumniWhether you live in the area or will be traveling to Fort Collins for the weekend, we would love for you to join us in our homecoming festivities on October 16th. Come help us celebrate our return to the new and renovated Eddy! Drop by our open house between 2 p.m. and 4…
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Alumni Profile: Justin Goodfellow
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Justin GoodfellowJustin Goodfellow English Major (Creative Writing) with a Business Administration Minor Graduated May 2012 Why did you choose to study English at CSU? I initially started out as a Business Major, but it was only in my English classes that I felt completely and wholly stimulated by everything I was…
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Faculty (and Alumni) Profile: Todd Mitchell
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Read More: Faculty (and Alumni) Profile: Todd MitchellTodd Mitchell, Assistant Professor B.A., English, Oberlin College; M.F.A., Creative Writing, Fiction, Colorado State University Todd Mitchell currently serves as Director of the Beginning Creative Writing Teaching Program. In addition to overseeing Beginning Creative Writing sections, he teaches Adolescents’ Literature (E405), Teaching College Creative Writing (E607B), Advanced Creative Writing: Nonfiction…
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Faculty (and Alumni) Profile: Bruce Shields
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Read More: Faculty (and Alumni) Profile: Bruce ShieldsBruce Shields is a 2012 graduate of CSU’s MFA in fiction writing program. He currently teaches composition and English courses, as well as works as the Associate Director of the Writing Center. How would you describe your work in the English Department? It’s dynamic and challenging every day and that’s…
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Alumni Profile: Catherine Hackney
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Catherine HackneyCatherine Hackney English Major (Literature) with a Business Administration Minor Graduated Cum Laude May 2012 Why did you choose to study English at CSU? My sister went to CSU seven years before me. When I was in middle school and high school I was able to visit her in Fort…
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Profile: Alumna and Visiting Scholar Kaya Chiba
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Read More: Profile: Alumna and Visiting Scholar Kaya ChibaKaya Chiba was at CSU this past year as a visiting scholar, and also received her M.A. in TESL/TEFL at CSU. Even though she returned to Japan last week, before she left she was kind enough to answer some questions about her time here. You are an English teacher at…
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Alumni Profile: Joe LaFond
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Joe LaFondJoe LaFond English Major (Writing Concentration) Graduated December 2013 Why did you choose to study English at CSU? When I was a junior in high school, I had a teacher who insisted that I transfer from her English class into AP English. At the time, I really had no desire…
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Alumni Profile: Kimberly Townsend
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Kimberly TownsendKimberly Townsend M.A. English: Literature, Peace Corps Masters International (PCMI), Fall 2013 How did your major prepare you for the job, the life you have now? Currently, I work as a Management Support Assistant in the Office of Curatorial Affairs (OCA) at the Smithsonian’s National Museum for African American History…
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Alumni Profile: Steven Church
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Steven ChurchSteven Church MFA, Creative Writing, 2002 http://www.steven-church.com You were recently named the Hallowell Professor of Creative Writing, effective fall 2014 to spring 2016. Could you tell us a bit more about that? The Hallowell Professorship is funded by the generous contributions of a local family here in Fresno and designated…