Category: News
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News of Note Week of April 6th
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 6thAssociate Professor of Creative Writing Dan Beachy-Quick has been named a fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Beachy-Quick was one of 175 scholars, artists and scientists selected to receive a 2015 Guggenheim fellowship and one of 10 recipients in the organization’s poetry category, (there were more than 3,100…
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Faculty (and Alumni) Profile: Todd Mitchell
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Read More: Faculty (and Alumni) Profile: Todd MitchellTodd Mitchell, Assistant Professor B.A., English, Oberlin College; M.F.A., Creative Writing, Fiction, Colorado State University Todd Mitchell currently serves as Director of the Beginning Creative Writing Teaching Program. In addition to overseeing Beginning Creative Writing sections, he teaches Adolescents’ Literature (E405), Teaching College Creative Writing (E607B), Advanced Creative Writing: Nonfiction…
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Faculty (and Alumni) Profile: Bruce Shields
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Read More: Faculty (and Alumni) Profile: Bruce ShieldsBruce Shields is a 2012 graduate of CSU’s MFA in fiction writing program. He currently teaches composition and English courses, as well as works as the Associate Director of the Writing Center. How would you describe your work in the English Department? It’s dynamic and challenging every day and that’s…
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Faculty Profile: Lynn Shutters
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Lynn ShuttersLynn Shutters, Special Assistant Professor, Literature. B.A., English, University of Virginia; M.A. and Ph.D., English, New York University. Dr. Shutters teaches early literature and women and gender studies at CSU. Her academic interests include representations of love, sex, and marriage in medieval literature; representations of non-Western peoples in medieval literature;…
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CSU Writing Project Speaker Series on the Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life: Bud Hunt
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Read More: CSU Writing Project Speaker Series on the Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life: Bud HuntOn March 31st, Bud Hunt was the featured speaker at the most recent session of the CSU Writing Project Speaker Series on the Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life. On his blog, Hunt said, “Earlier this week, I had the honor of giving a talk in the CSU Literacies of Contemporary…
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Faculty Profile: Sean Waters
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Sean WatersThe 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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Outstanding Literary Essay Awards – Submissions Due April 6th
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Read More: Outstanding Literary Essay Awards – Submissions Due April 6thThe English Department’s Literature Program announces the 12th annual Outstanding Literary Essay Awards contest, which recognizes outstanding critical writing and interpretive work in literary studies. Applicants must be registered graduate or undergraduate English majors. Awards of $100 for first place, $75 for second place, and $50 for third place will…
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Creative Writing Reading Series: Cheryl Strayed (Fiction & Nonfiction), April 2nd
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: Cheryl Strayed (Fiction & Nonfiction), April 2ndStrayed is the bestselling author of the memoir WILD: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Knopf, 2012), which was recently made into an Academy-Award nominated film. The event is free and open to the public; seating is first come basis; NO ticket required. Get all the details…