Outstanding Literary Essay Awards – Submissions Due April 6th
The English Department’s Literature Program announces the 12th annual Outstanding Literary Essay Awards contest, which recognizes outstanding critical writing and interpretive work in literary studies. Applicants must be registered graduate or undergraduate English majors. Awards of $100 for first place, […]
Creative Writing Reading Series: Cheryl Strayed (Fiction & Nonfiction), April 2nd
Strayed is the bestselling author of the memoir WILD: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Knopf, 2012), which was recently made into an Academy-Award nominated film. The event is free and open to the public; seating is […]
Creative Writing Reading Series: Kyle Dargan
~From English Department Communications Intern Kara Nosal Poet Kyle Dargan read at the UCA Art Museum on March 12th as part of the Creative Writing Reading Series. He walked in wearing a clean, gray sweater, but his poetry ended up […]
Alumni Profile: Catherine Hackney
Catherine Hackney English Major (Literature) with a Business Administration Minor Graduated Cum Laude May 2012 Why did you choose to study English at CSU? My sister went to CSU seven years before me. When I was in middle school and […]
Profile: Alumna and Visiting Scholar Kaya Chiba
Kaya Chiba was at CSU this past year as a visiting scholar, and also received her M.A. in TESL/TEFL at CSU. Even though she returned to Japan last week, before she left she was kind enough to answer some questions […]
Alumni Profile: Joe LaFond
Joe LaFond English Major (Writing Concentration) Graduated December 2013 Why did you choose to study English at CSU? When I was a junior in high school, I had a teacher who insisted that I transfer from her English class into […]
News of Note Week of March 23rd
Dan Beachy-Quick participated on a panel on “Translation and the Fluidic Text” at the &now conference at CALARTS. He’ll also be giving a lecture for the Monfort professorship in Wed @ 4:00 in Pathology 101. Read more about it here: […]
NCTE@CSU
The National Council of Teachers of English at Colorado State University (NCTE@CSU) is a non-profit, student-run organization on campus for teacher education students of all content areas. As a professional organization NCTE@CSU provides its members with informative and education-based information […]
Monfort Professor Lecture: Dan Beachy-Quick
What: Monfort Professor Lecture When: 4 pm April 1st Where: 101 Pathology Who: Dan Beachy-Quick, a CSU English professor, will present a talk entitled “Considering the Made-Thing: Thoughts on Poetry, Ancient Greek, and the Strange Difficulty of Quietness.” Dan Beachy-Quick, […]