Category: News
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Isabel Allende
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Read More: Hispanic Heritage Month: Isabel AllendeBecause we got a late start for Hispanic Heritage Month, (it actually started September 15), we are going to spend this whole week, the final week of this particular celebration, featuring Hispanic authors, scholars, educators, and speakers. Next week we’ll get back to celebrating LGBT and Philipino American History. Isabel…
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Humans of Eddy: Lynn Shutters
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Lynn ShuttersDepartment communications intern and English major Michaela Hayes recently had the opportunity to ask Assistant Professor Lynn Shutters some questions about the Rekindle the Classics project she’s helping to facilitate. Here’s what she had to say about it, and a few other things. Why Beloved? To start with, it’s…
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Paulo Coelho
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Read More: Hispanic Heritage Month: Paulo CoelhoBecause we got a late start for Hispanic Heritage Month, (it actually started September 15), we are going to spend this whole week, the final week of this particular celebration, featuring Hispanic authors, scholars, educators, and speakers. Next week we’ll get back to celebrating LGBT and Philipino American History. Paul…
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News of Note Week of October 2
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 2There’s a short interview with Dan Beachy-Quick up at the New England Review’s website about the poem they recently published, “Memory-Wax, Knowledge-Bird”: http://www.nereview.com/category/behind-the-byline/. Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang (MFA ’07) recently gave three readings in Utah, courtesy of the Utah Humanities Book Festival, and its Director, Michael McLane (MFA ’08)-one at…
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Julia Alvarez
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Read More: Hispanic Heritage Month: Julia AlvarezBecause we got a late start for Hispanic Heritage Month, (it actually started September 15), we are going to spend this whole week, the final week of this particular celebration, featuring Hispanic authors, scholars, educators, and speakers. Next week we’ll get back to celebrating LGBT and Philipino American History. Julia Alvarez…
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Gabriel García Márquez
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Read More: Hispanic Heritage Month: Gabriel García MárquezCSU English’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage month would be amiss if we did not mention Gabriel García Márquez. In and outside of the literary world, Márquez is an impressive figure. Márquez was born in 1927 in a coastal Colombian village, where he lived with his maternal grandparents until he left…
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Zambia Study Abroad Summer 2018
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Read More: Zambia Study Abroad Summer 2018Livingstone, Zambia Education Abroad Info Session: Wednesday, October 18 at 4pm in LCS room 304 Program Dates: May 20-June 9, 2018 This CSU summer faculty-led program takes students to Livingstone, Zambia to assist Zambians in educational settings (schools, after school programs, adult literacy programs ) or in community health arenas (clinics, home-based…
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Filipino American History Month: Carlos Bulosan
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Read More: Filipino American History Month: Carlos Bulosan“The human heart is bigger than the world.” ~Carlos Bulosan Carlos Bulosan was born in 1911 in the Philippines, although his actual year of birth is uncertain. He left the Philippines for America, arriving in Seattle around the age of 16/17. His goal was to escape the poverty and economic turmoil…
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LGBT History Month: Federico Garcia Lorca
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Read More: LGBT History Month: Federico Garcia LorcaFederico Garcia Lorca was born in 1889 in Spain. Throughout his life, he worked as a playwright, a theatre director, and a poet. He gained recognition when he joined Generation of ‘27, a group predominantly comprised of Spanish poets who wanted to share their avant-garde poetry and art with people.…
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CSU Writes: Facilitating scholarly writing productivity — and community (SOURCE)
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Read More: CSU Writes: Facilitating scholarly writing productivity — and community (SOURCE)Kristina Quynn radiates positivity, especially when discussing CSU Writes, a program that facilitates scholarly writing productivity for faculty and graduate students. Quynn, founding director of CSU Writes, put together a grant proposal several years ago hoping to organize a writing group program, which then grew when she thought writing group members might…