An important message from Professor Ellen Brinks: Dear English students, Are you interested in doing meaningful community education and community health work this summer – in Africa? And earning three academic credits for it? As faculty-director of the 2016 summer Education […]
Wednesday night, I went to a spoken word Poetry Slam by Carlos Andrés Gómez. It was rather last minute, but I’m a fan of slam poetry and I figured anything poetry related could be covered for the blog. Why not? […]
~from English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic “We were going to call it the Bread & Cheese Club, but that seemed too obscure,” says Kelsey Easton of the Dead Poets Society. The beloved Robin Williams/John Keating wasn’t the only […]
From department chair Louann Reid: Homecoming was a hit! Thank you to Pam Coke and Rebecca Kennedy, who organized the event, and to the scores of people who helped make it successful. Marnie, Sheila, and Sue helped us prepare and clean […]
NCTE’s Seventh Annual National Day on Writing is being celebrated today. The theme this year is #WhyIWrite. NCTE answers the question “Why a National Day on Writing?” this way: In light of the significance of writing in our national life, […]
Colloquium: a usually academic meeting at which specialists deliver addresses on a topic or on related topics and then answer questions relating to them. A few times each semester, the English department hosts a colloquium. All department faculty and graduate […]
English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic recently attended an NCTE@CSU event about Banned Books and had this to share. Perhaps instead of Banned Books Week, we should call this Challenged Books Week. On Thursday’s NCTE@CSU Meeting, I learned about how often […]
by English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Poetry lovers filled the LSC’s North Ballroom for the first of this semester’s Creative Writing and Reading Series. The room had a palpable buzz while waiting for Mary Szybist, winner of the National […]
Please save the date for the Department of English Homecoming Celebration: Friday, Oct.16, 2015, at 2 p.m. on the third floor of Eddy Hall. The renovation of Eddy Hall is complete, and the Department of English is preparing for an open house to […]
by Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Tom Buchanan of The Great Gatsby may be one of the most disliked characters in the history of American Literature. His hateful attitudes are apparent from the outset with his praise of the (misnamed) Rise […]