Category: Events
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Women's History Month: Anne Frank
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Read More: Women's History Month: Anne Frank~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub I spent yesterday brainstorming a list of women to feature on the blog this month. It’s Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating specifically women who’ve made contributions to literature and education. Because there are so many, I toyed yesterday with limiting my list to U.S. citizens —…
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Women's History Month
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Read More: Women's History MonthCelebrated in March to coincide with International Women’s Day on the 6th, Women’s History Month highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. This year’s national theme is “Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business,” and here on the blog, similarly to how we celebrated Black…
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Black History Month: Nikki Giovanni
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Read More: Black History Month: Nikki GiovanniI always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more…
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Black History Month: Rita Dove
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Read More: Black History Month: Rita DoveBlack History Month is almost over, but we’ve barely brushed the surface of the influence black authors have had on the literary community. Rita Frances Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. Her father, Ray Dove, was the first African-American to work in the tire industry as a chemist. Following…
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Black History Month: W.E.B. Du Bois
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Read More: Black History Month: W.E.B. Du BoisW.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois is remembered for his many roles as a journalist, educator, African-American sociologist, and Civil Rights activist. He was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois excelled at school, receiving two bachelor’s degrees from Fisk University (a historically black college in Nashville) and Harvard College,…
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Black History Month: bell hooks
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Read More: Black History Month: bell hooksbell hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins on September 25, 1952. The town of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where she and her five siblings grew up and went to school, was segregated, and her experiences in this community helped shape the commitment to feminism and resistance to racism central to her life’s…
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Rekindle the Classics: Left Hand of Darkness Discussion
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Read More: Rekindle the Classics: Left Hand of Darkness DiscussionKelly Weber is a first-year graduate student in the MFA Poetry program and graduate teaching assistant (GTA) for CO150. She’s been featured in our Humans of Eddy series and recently facilitated a Rekindle the Classics discussion about Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. She was kind enough to report back to us…
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Black History Month: Toni Morrison
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Read More: Black History Month: Toni MorrisonToni Morrison is among the most acclaimed African American authors in U.S. history. In 1993, she became the first African American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She also received a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in…
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A Day at the (Career) Fair
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Read More: A Day at the (Career) Fair~from intern Joyce Bohling Recently I shared a story here on the blog—“What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?”—exploring career options for English majors. For that post, I interviewed Career Education Manager for the College of Liberal Arts, Katie Russo, who explained all that English majors bring to the…
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Black History Month: Alice Walker
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Read More: Black History Month: Alice WalkerAuthor, civil rights activist, and women’s rights activist Alice Walker was born in Putnam County, Georgia in 1944. Born into a family of sharecroppers, she was the youngest of eight children. She grew up surrounded by oral tradition, hearing stories from her grandfather. Her grandfather’s stories inspired her, at the…