Tag: Ellen Brinks
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News of Note Week of May 2
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Read More: News of Note Week of May 2Dan Beachy-Quick will be on Colorado Matters on the Denver NPR station on May 11. Ellen Brinks has been invited to give a plenary talk at the conference “Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1920,” at Birkbeck College, University of London, in early July. Doug Cloud’s article, “Talking Climate Change…
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News of Note Week of March 7
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Read More: News of Note Week of March 7Antero 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 judge for the art and writing youth “Twist Fate” challenge.…
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2016 Summer Education Abroad Program: Zambia
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Read More: 2016 Summer Education Abroad Program: ZambiaAn important message from Professor Ellen Brinks: Dear English students, Are you interested in doing meaningful community education and community health work this summer – in Africa? And earning three academic credits for it? As faculty-director of the 2016 summer Education abroad program in Zambia (May 22-June 11, 2016), I wanted…
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Peace Corps International M.A., an Information Session
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Read More: Peace Corps International M.A., an Information SessionGrad School or Peace Corps? Why not do both? A student may combine a degree in any one of our five M.A. programs — Creative Nonfiction, English Education, Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, or TEFL/TESL — with the Peace Corps Masters International (PCMI) degree at Colorado State University. Colorado State University is…
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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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SOURCE Features a Story on the Service Learning Program in Zambia led by Dr. Ellen Brinks
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Read More: SOURCE Features a Story on the Service Learning Program in Zambia led by Dr. Ellen BrinksEnglish Professor Ellen Brinks took a group of 12 students to Livingstone, Zambia this summer. For three weeks, they took part in experiential learning and internships through our Colorado State University Study Abroad program (and African Impact). The group, which was in Zambia from May 22 to June 15,…
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News of Note Week of May 4th
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Read More: News of Note Week of May 4thGood news from E.J. Levy: “My award-winning story collection, ‘Love, In Theory,’ is being released today in France by Editions Payot & Rivages, publishers of (among others) Elmore Leonard, David Lodge, Alison Lurie, and Willa Cather. They compare my work to that of Lorrie Moore, Grace Paley, and Nobel Prize…
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Alumni Profile: Kimberly Townsend
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Kimberly TownsendKimberly Townsend M.A. English: Literature, Peace Corps Masters International (PCMI), Fall 2013 How did your major prepare you for the job, the life you have now? Currently, I work as a Management Support Assistant in the Office of Curatorial Affairs (OCA) at the Smithsonian’s National Museum for African American History…