Category: News
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News of Note, Week of October 19th
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Read More: News of Note, Week of October 19thDan Beachy-Quick went to Yale University last week to meet with the Poetics Work Group to discuss his most recent book, gentlessness. Antero Garcia published a blog post for DMLCentral discussing the racism of #BoycottStarWarsVII and the implications for classrooms: http://dmlcentral.net/boycottstarwarsvii-racism-and-classroom-responsibility/ Cindy O’Donnell-Allen presented last week at the annual conference of the Associations of…
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Humans of Eddy: Joelle Paulson
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Joelle PaulsonThis is a special Humans of Eddy post. Joelle Paulson is both a department alumna and a current faculty member. Over the summer and into the fall, she helped create content for the department blog and Facebook page, and she helped some of her colleagues enhance their faculty pages. Before that, she did some great…
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David Baker Reading, a Reflection from Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: David Baker Reading, a Reflection from Ashley Alfirevic~by English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Collectible trading cards, practice footage, and man-and-ball portraits currently occupy the walls of the UCA’s Art Gallery. “I just don’t get all the football stuff,” someone behind me murmured as an aside. Granted, we were all there to listen to David Baker’s prolific…
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Homecoming Open House: a Recap and Gratitude
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Read More: Homecoming Open House: a Recap and GratitudeThe Homecoming Open House was a success! Read more about it here, and see the full set of pictures on our Facebook page.
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Homecoming Open House: a Recap and Gratitude
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Read More: Homecoming Open House: a Recap and GratitudeFrom department chair Louann Reid: Homecoming was a hit! Thank you to Pam Coke and Rebecca Kennedy, who organized the event, and to the scores of people who helped make it successful. Marnie, Sheila, and Sue helped us prepare and clean up; work-study students Kayla and Mike were instrumental in some…
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Humans of Eddy: Taylor Heussner
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Taylor Heussnerfrom English Department Communications Coordinator Ashley Alfirevic Back when we were both on the Greyrock Review, Taylor served as our group’s fearless leader, tackling everything from editing to formatting. Now, she’s working on some pretty cool stuff and stopped to chat with us about Eddy, NYC, and NBC. Taylor Heussner…
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NCTE National Day of Writing at CSU
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Read More: NCTE National Day of Writing at CSUNCTE’s Seventh Annual National Day on Writing is being celebrated today. The theme this year is #WhyIWrite. NCTE answers the question “Why a National Day on Writing?” this way: In light of the significance of writing in our national life, to draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing we…
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News of Note Week of October 12th
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 12thSasha Steensen’s essay “Openings: Into Our Vertical Cosmos,” was released by Essay Press as a digital chapbook. She thought of titling the essay “What Not to do on Sabbatical,” in case that piques your interest. You can read the essay here: http://www.essaypress.org/ep-40/ Skyhorse Press has released Dan Robinson’s first novel, After…
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Alumni Profile: David Theis
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Read More: Alumni Profile: David TheisDavid Theis English major, graduated 1989 Chief of Media, The World Bank How did you get from your major to the work/the life you have now? Funny thing about being an English major, in my experience, was always being asked at the time, “Are you going to teach?” This…
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Alumni Profile: Felicia Zamora
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Felicia ZamoraFelicia Zamora MFA Creative Writing (Poetry), May 2012 Assistant Director, Beverage Business Institute/Center for Professional Development and Business Research College of Business, Colorado State University How did you get from your major to the work, the life you have now? In 2008, the Harvard Business Review online released an…