Tag: Bruce Ronda
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News of Note Weeks of September 24 and October 1
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Read More: News of Note Weeks of September 24 and October 1Leslee Becker’s story, “The Airman,” has been accepted for publication in Fiction War Magazine. Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang shared their new book, NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), at Naropa University, on Tuesday, September 25. Matthew also has new poems out in Posit, which can be found here: https://positjournal.com/2018/09/13/matthew-cooperman/ Debby Thompson’s essay…
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Martha Scott Trimble Lecture: Bruce Ronda
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Read More: Martha Scott Trimble Lecture: Bruce RondaBased on his recent book, The Fate of Transcendentalism. Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing (2017), Ronda’s talk explores the work of three figures associated with the nineteenth-century American transcendentalist movement or inspired by it: reformer and essayist Elizabeth Peabody, novelist Truman Nelson, and writer Annie Dillard. Each of these reveals…
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News of Note October 9
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Read More: News of Note October 9There’s an essay titled “Atlantis” from Dan Beachy- Quick’s forthcoming book, Of Silence and Song, just published at The New Orleans Review: http://www.neworleansreview.org/atlantis/. Genesea Carter was a panelist on the panel “Composition, Curiosity & Technical-Major Students” at the Two-Year College English Association’s Midwest conference this past week in St. Paul, Minnesota.…
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CLA Award Winners
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Read More: CLA Award WinnersRecently, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) held their annual awards ceremony. Five members of the English department were honored. Sheila Dargon received the State Classified Award, Zach Hutchins and Kylan Rice were awarded for Excellence in Teaching, Tony Becker was presented with the Faculty Development Award, and Bruce Ronda…
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Interview with Bruce Ronda
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Read More: Interview with Bruce RondaIn Spring 2016, English major Alexander (Alec) Pearson did an internship where he researched department history. He graduated at the end of that same semester, earning his Bachelor of Arts in English with a writing concentration. Alec collected and wrote a lot of material that semester. One thing he did…
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Bruce Ronda: Memories and Good Wishes
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Read More: Bruce Ronda: Memories and Good Wishes~from Jill Salahub Tomorrow the English department will be holding a very special celebration. Bruce Ronda is retiring this year, and as sad as we are to see him go, we are sending him off with our best wishes at this upcoming event. To honor him here on the blog, I’ve been collecting memories and…
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News of Note Week of September 14th
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 14thDan Beachy-Quick’s essay, “Thinking as Burial Practice,” is up at Wave Composition: http://www.wavecomposition.com/ A profile and interview with John Calderazzo on nature writing is forthcoming in Whole Terrain magazine. John will soon be doing nonfiction writing talks and workshops at Colorado Mesa University and the Wyoming Writers Conference in Sheridan.John has also…
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Eddy Hall Grand Reopening Speeches
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Read More: Eddy Hall Grand Reopening SpeechesAssociate Dean for Faculty & Graduate Studies and former English Department Chair, and CLA Project Manager Bruce Ronda gave the opening remarks at the Eddy Hall Grand Reopening event that took place on August 19, 2015. What the video missed was the very beginning of his speech, which started with this:…
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News of Note Week of April 20th
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 20thAlumnus Justin Hocking’s memoir The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld won the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. The book is also: a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, listed as one of Ten Brilliant Books That Will Grab You from Page One in Kirkus Reviews and The Huffington Post,…