Category: News
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(Almost) Alumni Profile: Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: (Almost) Alumni Profile: Ashley Alfirevic~From Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub English major and department communications intern Ashley Alfirevic will be graduating next week. I am incredibly sad to see her go. Ashley has worked with me as an intern doing department communications for the past year. For the past 15 years in the English department at…
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Greyrock Review Release Party, a Reflection from Intern Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: Greyrock Review Release Party, a Reflection from Intern Ashley Alfirevic~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic The last few weeks of my senior year have been filled with nostalgia for CSU, a calm fondness and bittersweet assurance that just as I finally understood all the ins and outs of the English Department, I’d soon be leaving. And as a…
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Faculty Profile: Leslee Becker
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Leslee Becker~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Name: Leslee Becker Title: Professor of English Program: Creative Writing MFA Program How would you describe your work in the English Department? It’s not that different from everybody else’s. It’s teaching, committee work, and in Creative Writing – for me anyhow. I…
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Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement
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Read More: Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement~From Assistant Professor Todd Mitchell Sixteen years ago I took a class that changed my life. I think, even then, I knew that something special was happening in John’s graduate creative nonfiction course. Several people had recommended it to me, and I’d never before encountered such an intimate and productive…
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John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good Wishes
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Read More: John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good WishesThis Thursday, May 5, the English department will be holding a very special celebration. John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell are retiring this year, and as sad as we are to see them go, we are sending them off with our best wishes at this upcoming event. To honor them on the…
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John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good Wishes
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Read More: John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good Wishes~From Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub This Thursday, May 5, the English department will be holding a very special celebration. John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell are retiring this year, and as sad as we are to see them go, we are sending them off with our best wishes at this upcoming event.…
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News of Note Week of April 25
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 25Camille Dungy’s poems have been published in two new anthologies: Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin. (W.W. Norton) and Read America(s): An Anthology (Locked Horn Press). Camille will be a member of the faculty of the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference this summer. The other conference faculty…
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Faculty Profile: Roze Hentschell
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Roze HentschellWhat were you working on while on Sabbatical? I was working on my book, tentatively titled, “The Cultural Geography of St Paul’s Precinct.” I also finished an article for Early Theatre, submitted final page proofs for an essay in The Oxford Companion to the Age of Shakespeare and worked on…
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Professionalization Workshop: Applying to MA or PhD Programs in English, a Reflection from Beth Campbell
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Read More: Professionalization Workshop: Applying to MA or PhD Programs in English, a Reflection from Beth Campbell~From English Department Communications Intern Beth Campbell We rarely turn our thoughts to the future as college students. We are focused on the here and now – what assignments need to be done, what classes need to be taken, which meetings we need to go to, and how we are…
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Slam Poetry Tips and Slam-o-gadros 2nd Anniversary
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Read More: Slam Poetry Tips and Slam-o-gadros 2nd Anniversary~From English Department Communications Intern Kaitlyn Phillips On the final Sunday of any given month you can walk into Avogadro’s Number, a small restaurant and venue here in Fort Collins, and find a collection of people talking and shouting and laughing, many nervously clutching notebooks or writing furiously in a…