Category: News
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News of Note from the Week of April 28th
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Read More: News of Note from the Week of April 28thThere’s a podcast interview with Dan Beachy-Quick at Poetry Northwest. Leslee Becker won First Prize in the Boston Review’s 2014 Fiction Contest for her story, “Severance.” Basic Veterinary Immunology co-authored by Gerry Callahan and Robin Yates was published this month by University Press of Colorado, Boulder, Co. Antero Garcia is the…
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Faculty Profile: Cindy O’Donnell-Allen
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Cindy O’Donnell-AllenAssociate Professor Cindy O’Donnell-Allen teaches courses in literacy, composition, pedagogy, and adolescents’ literature. Her research explores the ways in which discursive practices serve as tools for collaborative knowledge construction in learning communities. She has published articles and chapters on adolescents’ literary meaning construction in multimedia interpretive texts; the influence of…
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English Major Profile: Cori McCallister
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Read More: English Major Profile: Cori McCallisterby Brianna Wilkins There was a quote I once read in a book, and it went a little something like this, “Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives,” (Fathoms of Forgiveness, Nadia Scrieva). This…
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Reading Series: Sam Tucker Iacovetto & Tara Smith
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Read More: Reading Series: Sam Tucker Iacovetto & Tara Smithby Evelyn Vaughn At the Creative Nonfiction thesis reading on April 17th, the night opened with a definition of the word “war.” According to the Oxford Online Dictionary, it is simply “a state of armed conflict,” but by the end of the night, those who attended the reading had several…
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Call for Alumni News
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Read More: Call for Alumni NewsThe English Department has many great alumni. For example, CSU alumnus George Kalamaras was recently selected Poet Laureate of Indiana, alumna Chloe’ Leisure is the Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, alumnus Justin Hocking’s memoir The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld was released February 11th, and alumna Mackenzie Fogelson is the…
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Speaker Series (Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life): Linda Christensen
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Read More: Speaker Series (Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life): Linda ChristensenLinda Christensen was the sixth and final presenter in the department’s speaker series, “Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life.” Christensen is an Instructor and Director of the Oregon Writing Project at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education, and a Counseling & Rethinking Schools Editorial Board member. Her presentation as…
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Humans of Eddy: Davia Carr
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Davia CarrDoes Davia look familiar to you? You might recognize her because she’s a work study in the English Department’s main office. What is your major, and when will you graduate? I major in Human Development and Family Studies (HDSF), and I’ll graduate in December of 2014. What is required of…
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Reading Series: Neely O’Connor, Artemis Savory, and Whitney Dean
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Read More: Reading Series: Neely O’Connor, Artemis Savory, and Whitney Deanby Evelyn Vaughn The reading on March 27th, 2014 consisted of three graduate students from the English Department’s Creative Non-Fiction Program. When I first arrived at the reading, as usual in the Art Museum portion of the University Center for the Arts, I was unaware that the readers that night…
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Faculty Profile: Ellen Brinks
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Ellen BrinksAssociate Professor Ellen Brinks has a B.A. in Philosophy and German from Agnes Scott College, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Professor Brinks teaches courses in British Romanticism, the Victorian period, literary theory, gothic literature and film, and colonial and postcolonial literatures. Her research explores the cultural context…