The CSU English Department is proud to highlight the outstanding work of our faculty and staff, whose recent accomplishments exemplify the impact of our scholarly and creative community. Below, learn more about recent publications, presentations, honors, and community engagement efforts.

 

Publications: Research & Scholarship

• Joe Schicke and his co-writer, Scott Weedon, have an article, “The band feeling: getting intentional with soundwriting and sonic rhetorics,” forthcoming in the December 2025 issue of Computers and Composition.
• Sue Doe, along with colleagues M. E. Pilgrim and K. Tenney, published an article, “Building metaphors that describe mathematics identity and experiences among mathematics graduate teaching assistants,” in the Journal of Education.
• Aparna Gollapudi’s essay, “The Page’s Part: Juvenile Actors on the English Stage (1660-1700),” was published in European Drama and Performance Studies.
• Erika Szymanski’s chapter, “An invitation to help redecorate a corner of discursive space,” was published in Revisiting Reflexivity: Livable Worlds in Research and Beyond. The open access book is available here.
• Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker, Anthony Becker, Kiley Dickerson (TEFL–TESL MA ’17), Elizabeth Pedrotti (TEFL–TESL MA ’21), and Lauren Mangus (TEFL–TESL MA ’23) published their article, “Graduate ESP Teacher Training: Examining Practices, Overcoming Challenges, and Exploring Future Directions,” in Global Business Languages, which publishes empirical research in the field of Language for Specific Purposes.

 

Publications: Creative Artistry

• slp’s creative nonfiction piece, “wtf is madness anyway? [my love affair with BoJack Horseman],” appeared as the opening article in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal’s special issue on Madness.
• Dan Beachy-Quick’s new poem, “Initiation into the Lesser Mysteries,” appeared in the newest issue of Harvard Review.
• John Kneisley’s poem, “Against Loneliness,” appeared in the Summer 2025 issue of Orion.
• Devon Fulford’s new chapbook, onus, was published by Alien Buddha Press.
• Nancy Wright’s poem, “How She Can Tell She Is Happy,” was published in the September issue of Rogue Agent, and her poem, “What I Failed to Notice,” was published earlier this summer in Anacapa Review.

 

Public Talks, Conference Presentations, and Community Engagement

• Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala will be one of four keynote speakers at the upcoming 48th Annual COTESOL Fall Convention. The COTESOL Convention is the annual fall event held by Colorado Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (COTESOL), an organization that provides professional development, networking opportunities, and resources for educators of multilingual learners in Colorado.
• Bryce M. O’Tierney is a current fellow and co-facilitator for Writing Women, a six-week online course in Meditative Creative Writing taught by award-winning author and professor Rachel Jamison Webster.
• Erika Szymanski presented “Notes toward a Microbepunk Manifesto: On the Logic, Ethics, and Aesthetics of More-Than-Human Built Environments” at the “Cohabitability” conference hosted by the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague earlier this month.
• Nina McConigley gave a talk at the “Feast of Fiction” event for the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Fall Con and delivered a keynote address at the Berthoud Literary Festival.
• Ramona Ausubel participated in the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Fall Con, where she gave a talk during the “Smorgasbord of Authors” event.
• Ricki Ginsberg spoke in a webinar with NCTE President Tonya B. Perry in September about her recent report, The State of Literature Use in US Secondary English Classrooms.
• Tobi Jacobi, Sarah Cooper, and Clarissa Trapp (Morgan Library Special Collections) presented a panel titled, “Knowing Her: Fracturing Institutional Narratives of University Women’s Labor through Art, Student Engagement, and Qualitative and Archival Research,” at the Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference at the University of New Hampshire in Durham earlier this summer.
• Roze Hentschell spoke at the Blake Center for the Engaged Humanities fall open house in September on “The Humanities as Leadership Practice: Advancing Scholarship, Shaping Higher Education.”
• Andrew Altschul and Vauhini Vara served as literature advisors for the DAG Foundation and presented the inaugural DAG Prize for Literature to Michael Zapata at an award ceremony held this month in Denver.
• Devon Fulford took part in Word Play: A Virtual Poetry Reading in October, alongside fellow readers Melissa Eleftherion Carr and Heather Kays.

 

Honors

• Under Stephanie G’Schwind’s leadership, four essays published in Colorado Review—Lilly Nguyen’s “The Possibilities of a Line,” Nina King Sannes’s “Redneck Folk Medicine,” Kylie Smith’s “The Moth Effect,” and Emily Wortman-Wunder’s “Geography of Forgetting”—have been named “Notables.” Additionally, Jarek Steele’s “Nesting” has been reprinted in The Best American Essays 2025.
• Nina McConigley received her first starred review in Publishers Weekly for her forthcoming novel, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder.