Nancy Henke learned this week that she’s been chosen as a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar. She will spend two weeks in June at the NEH Summer Institute on “Westward Expansion and the Constitution in the Early Republic,” […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Beth Campbell How would you describe you work in the English Department? I teach mostly graduate courses, and every so often an undergraduate course. I usually teach creative writing, poetry, and ecopoetics. What brought you […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Beth Campbell The air seems to shimmer with excitement as students trickled in to the beat of a Bollywood song playing over the sound system. Conversation bubbled between the rows of seats as the main […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Beth Campbell Kara can only be described as colorful. When I first met her, she beamed a terrific smile at me and, before I could finish asking her name, launched into how nice it was […]
Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, has been named a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in Poetry. Dan Beachy-Quick’s poem, “Endangered Species,” is up today at the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day site: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-day SueEllen Campbell and John Calderazzo spent […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Recently, two of my classmates were kind enough to agree to spontaneous Humans of Eddy interviews. I run into Dougie quite a bit throughout the department and various English events, but this is […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Kaitlyn Phillips Her name’s Breanna and she only had time for one question, so I asked “What made you want to become an English Major?” and her answer was “I loved reading fantasy books as […]
Antero Garcia has a new chapter titled “Teacher as Dungeon Master: Connected learning, democratic classrooms, and rolling for initiative” in the book The role-playing society: Essays on the cultural influence of RPGs (MacFarland). Antero Garcia has been announced as a […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Beth Campbell Night had settled over the whole of Fort Collins, but Old Town still shown bright with the glow of street lights, shop windows, and the strobing pulses of lasers to the beat of […]
~From English Department Communications Intern Kaitlyn Phillips At 7:30 in the Lory Student Center’s Cherokee Park Ballroom, people began to filter in and take their seats. They talk excitedly, browse the books for sale in the corner, and await author […]