Tag: Ashley Alfirevic
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The best places at CSU to read, write, and study
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Read More: The best places at CSU to read, write, and study~by English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic In the CSU English Department’s first of many upcoming listicles, we’re spotlighting some of the best places at CSU to read, write, and study. This week, I took to our Twitter and Instagram pages to share some of my favorite #secretstudyspots around campus. …
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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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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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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…
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Alumni Profile: Brittany Goss
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Brittany GossBrittany Goss Content Creation Manager, Association of National Advertisers (NYC) MFA: Fiction, 2013 How did you get from your major to the work, the life you have now? My current day job is in the advertising industry. I write for a trade organization about best practices and new trends in the field.…
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Humans of Eddy: Lauren Sawinska
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Lauren Sawinska~from English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic I first met Lauren in our Advanced Public Speaking class last year. She gives some dynamite speeches, by the way. Now we both participate in our Nonfiction Creative Writing course with Debby Thompson. She’s this week’s Human of Eddy and talks journalism, writing,…
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Alumni Profile: Angie Hodapp
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Angie HodappAngie Hodapp MA English: Communication Development, (“Completed my graduate coursework in 2002 but didn’t defend my thesis and actually earn my MA until spring 2010”) Contracts and Royalties Manager, Nelson Literary Agency How did you get from your major to the work, the life you have now? My grad-school…
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English Department Colloquium: Ellen Brinks, Dan Beachy-Quick, Tobi Jacobi and Ed Lessor
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Read More: English Department Colloquium: Ellen Brinks, Dan Beachy-Quick, Tobi Jacobi and Ed LessorColloquium: a usually academic meeting at which specialists deliver addresses on a topic or on related topics and then answer questions relating to them. A few times each semester, the English department hosts a colloquium. All department faculty and graduate students are invited. We gather, with fine appetizers and drinks in…
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NCTE@CSU Banned Books Event Reflection, by Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: NCTE@CSU Banned Books Event Reflection, by Ashley AlfirevicEnglish Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic recently attended an NCTE@CSU event about Banned Books and had this to share. Perhaps instead of Banned Books Week, we should call this Challenged Books Week. On Thursday’s NCTE@CSU Meeting, I learned about how often parents challenge books found in a library, a school, a…