Category: Events
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National Poetry Month: Favorite Poems and Poets
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Favorite Poems and PoetsAs part of our celebration of National Poetry Month, we sent out an email to the English department and asked them a single question: “What is your favorite poem, and/or who is your favorite poet, and why?” Here are some of the answers we’ve received so far. Katherine Indermaur…
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National Poetry Month
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Read More: National Poetry MonthThank You by Ross Gay If you find yourself half naked and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing, again, the earth’s great, sonorous moan that says you are the air of the now and gone, that says all you love will turn to dust, and will meet you there, do…
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Women’s History Month: President Joyce McConnell
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Read More: Women’s History Month: President Joyce McConnellToday is our last day celebrating Women’s History Month on the blog, and next year is CSU’s 150th anniversary. How are those two things related? Today it was officially announced that our next president will be Joyce McConnell — the 15th president of the university will start her term in our…
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Women’s History Month: Kate Kiefer
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Kate KieferKate Kiefer joined the English department in 1979, coming from Ohio State and specializing in Composition and Rhetoric. She was hired to supervise the teaching of the newly implemented CO101 — to develop curriculum, provide professional development for GTAs who taught the course, coordinate with Steve Reid — then director…
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WHM: 10 Women Writers Who Changed History
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Read More: WHM: 10 Women Writers Who Changed History~from Caitlyn BucknerBackstrom 1. Agatha Christie “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie lived from 1890 to 1976 in a small town on the…
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TEFL/TESL Student Association Advocacy Week 2019
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Read More: TEFL/TESL Student Association Advocacy Week 2019~by Frank Xia The purpose of the TESL/TEFL Student Association (TTSA) is “to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and raise awareness about the field of TESL/TEFL in the Colorado State University community and the greater Fort Collins community.” Members are active throughout the year arranging social and professional events, and…
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Women’s History Month: Pattie Cowell
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Pattie CowellPattie Cowell is actively enjoying retirement these days, but she is still remembered as an exemplary leader. She spent much of her career in the CSU English Department, joining the department as an adjunct faculty member in 1977. When she finished her PhD in 1978, she joined the department as…
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Women’s History Month: Elizabeth G. Bell
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Elizabeth G. BellElizabeth G. Bell was the first female professor at Colorado State University, hired by President Ingersoll in August of 1885 to teach English, history, and modern languages at the annual salary of $1200. She also lived in Spruce Hall and acted as matron of the all-female dormitory. President Ingersoll felt it…
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Women’s History Month: Amazing Trans Women You Probably Didn’t Learn About in History Class
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Amazing Trans Women You Probably Didn’t Learn About in History ClassThe 2019 Women’s History Month theme is “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace & Nonviolence.” The theme honors “women who have led efforts to end war, violence, and injustice and pioneered the use of nonviolence to change society.” When I think of what sort of women might be on that list, some…
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Linda Ben-Zvi Celebrates Susan Glaspell at Bas Bleu Theater, March 9 and 10
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Read More: Linda Ben-Zvi Celebrates Susan Glaspell at Bas Bleu Theater, March 9 and 10Linda Ben-Zvi, professor emerita of CSU and Tel Aviv University, has authored four books on early twentieth-century American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress, Susan Glaspell. As part of Women’s History Month, Professor Ben-Zvi will be at Bas Bleu Theater in Fort Collins on March 9 and 10 to discuss Glaspell and…