Category: Faculty Profiles
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Faculty Profile: Virginia Chaffee
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Virginia ChaffeeThe English Department Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) Committee does all kinds of good work. One good thing is their newsletter “In Addition…News from the English Department’s NTTF Committee.” One of the features of the newsletter, which is sent monthly to NTTF in the department, is a faculty profile, which they’ve…
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Meet One of Our New Faculty Members: Matt Truslow
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Read More: Meet One of Our New Faculty Members: Matt TruslowMatt Truslow recently graduated from our MFA Poetry program and has been hired to teach CO150. We are happy to have him! What are you most excited about for teaching at CSU? I’ve spent the last three years here as a graduate student and GTA. I’m very fond of the…
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Faculty Profile: Kristina Quynn
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Kristina QuynnBorn and raised in Colorado, Dr. Kristina Quynn has been able to call CSU home since childhood. With her father serving as a CSU chaplain, she first learned how to play tennis on the old campus courts. After completing her PhD in Michigan, she answered a job posting to come…
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Dan Robinson's Reading, a Reflection from intern Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: Dan Robinson's Reading, a Reflection from intern Ashley Alfirevicby Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic The comfortable blue armchair in the middle of the Children’s Section at Old Firehouse Books felt like a stark contrast to the reading about to start. Compared to the bright soothing covers on the shelves, the sleek new book jacket of Dr. Robinson’s new novel Death…
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Meet One of Our New Faculty Members: Karen Montgomery Moore
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Read More: Meet One of Our New Faculty Members: Karen Montgomery MooreKaren Montgomery-Moore recently graduated from the English Literature MA program at CSU and has been hired to teach CO150 and CO130. We are excited to have her! What are you most excited about for teaching at CSU? I love the start of school—buying school supplies, being back on campus, the…
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What Faculty Members Really Do Over Summer Break: Kristie Yelinek
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Read More: What Faculty Members Really Do Over Summer Break: Kristie YelinekFaculty member Kristie Yelinek, who teaches CO130, CO150, and international sections of CO150, has spent her summer preparing to run a marathon, hiking fourteeners, volunteering at Habitat for Humanity, and dreaming about building a tiny house. Life is anything but boring for Kristie! What was your most memorable adventure this…
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SOURCE Features a Story on the Service Learning Program in Zambia led by Dr. Ellen Brinks
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Read More: SOURCE Features a Story on the Service Learning Program in Zambia led by Dr. Ellen BrinksEnglish Professor Ellen Brinks took a group of 12 students to Livingstone, Zambia this summer. For three weeks, they took part in experiential learning and internships through our Colorado State University Study Abroad program (and African Impact). The group, which was in Zambia from May 22 to June 15,…
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Meet One of our New Faculty Members: Andrew Altschul
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Read More: Meet One of our New Faculty Members: Andrew AltschulAndrew Altschul was the Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University. He earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing from 2002-2004 at Stanford University. He has published two novels as well as short…
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Tobi Jacobi and Ed Lessor’s Pop Up Museum
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Read More: Tobi Jacobi and Ed Lessor’s Pop Up MuseumEnglish Professors Tobi Jacobi and Ed Lessor recently participated in the Prison Public Memory Project by helping to set up Pop Up Museums in three different locations in Hudson, NY on three different days in July (the 9th, 14th, and 24th). A Pop Up Museum is a temporary exhibit. Popping up in different locations, the…
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Crisis and Creativity Symposium: Day 3
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Read More: Crisis and Creativity Symposium: Day 3Today was Day 3 of the Crisis and Creativity Symposium, a gathering of scholars and artists from across the country discussing creative approaches to a society in crisis. The morning began with a group discussion that mirrored the discussion from the first day. As Dan Beachy-Quick reflected, we’d come full…