Category: Events
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OpenSpace Music and Reading Series
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Read More: OpenSpace Music and Reading Series~From intern Katie Haggstrom While the school year is over, there are still plenty of local events happening throughout the summer. The OpenSpace: A Music and Reading Series will have their next event this Saturday, June 17th at 7:30pm. The event will feature some familiar faces from the CSU English…
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Putting the Humanities to Work
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Read More: Putting the Humanities to Work~From intern Katie Haggstrom Recently the English department hosted a workshop, “Putting the Humanities to Work,” to help graduate students explore potential career paths. As the event description explained, “one of the things we don’t talk enough about is how your English graduate degree prepares you for a wide range of interesting…
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CLA Award Winners
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Read More: CLA Award WinnersRecently, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) held their annual awards ceremony. Five members of the English department were honored. Sheila Dargon received the State Classified Award, Zach Hutchins and Kylan Rice were awarded for Excellence in Teaching, Tony Becker was presented with the Faculty Development Award, and Bruce Ronda…
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TEFL/TESL Student Association Had a Great Year!
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Read More: TEFL/TESL Student Association Had a Great Year!The TEFL/TESL Student Association (TTSA) had another successful year filled with professional development activities, social gatherings, and community building events. As a registered GSA, TTSA strives to promote linguistic and cultural diversity, both here on campus and in the larger Fort Collins community. They do this through many activities, including the…
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Interview with Bruce Ronda
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Read More: Interview with Bruce RondaIn 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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Bruce Ronda: Memories and Good Wishes
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Read More: Bruce Ronda: Memories and Good Wishes~from Jill Salahub Tomorrow the English department will be holding a very special celebration. Bruce Ronda is retiring this year, and as sad as we are to see him go, we are sending him off with our best wishes at this upcoming event. To honor him here on the blog, I’ve been collecting memories and…
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National Poetry Month: Camille Dungy
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Camille DungyWe’re coming to the end of National Poetry Month. It has been a challenge to limit ourselves to just a month’s worth of influential poets and poetic forms, while including space for CSU’s own poets. We’ve barely brushed the surface. If we’ve learned anything this month, it would be that…
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National Poetry Month: Sasha Steensen
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Sasha SteensenAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’ll spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. Professor Sasha Steensen has published numerous chapbooks and full-length poetry collections, including correspondence (a collaborative work…
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National Poetry Month: Dan Beachy-Quick
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Dan Beachy-QuickAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’ll spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. Poet, professor and essayist Dan Beachy-Quick is next up for our local poets. He is an…
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National Poetry Month: Matthew Cooperman
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Matthew CoopermanAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’d like to spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. CSU professor Matthew Cooperman is the author of four chapbooks and five full-length books…