Department 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 […]
Because 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 […]
There’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 […]
Because 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 […]
CSU 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, […]
Livingstone, 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 […]
“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. […]
Federico 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 […]
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, […]
Spring semester of 2017 we ran a series of features on the blog. We celebrated Black History Month (February), Women’s History Month (March), and National Poetry Month (April). For Black History Month, we focused in particular on the role of […]