Tag: Joyce Bohling
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Faculty Profile: Leif Sorensen
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Leif Sorensen~from intern Joyce Bohling What brought you to CSU? The short answer is that I got the job! The position I applied for (American literature with a specialization in multi-ethnic writing and a side interest in modernist studies) seemed to me like a perfect fit and I was happy that…
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Women's History Month: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Read More: Women's History Month: Laura Ingalls Wilder~from intern Joyce Bohling I was raised on Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. My mother would read the books to me each evening at bedtime. I had the Little House paper dolls and even, once, picked up the Little House cookbook in the children’s section…
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Humans of Eddy: Caleb Gonzalez
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Caleb GonzalezCaleb Gonzalez First Year M.A. Student, Creative Nonfiction Graduate Teaching Assistant for CO150 How do you spend most of your time in Eddy Hall? I spend my time in the computer lab on the third floor, doing my homework, printing out stories for my classes and getting ready for my…
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Women's History Month: Margaret Sanger
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Read More: Women's History Month: Margaret SangerMargaret Sanger was a feminist, nurse, activist, writer, and national and international advocate for women’s access to contraception. Sanger was born Margaret Higgins to an Irish-American family in 1879; she had ten siblings. She studied to become a nurse practitioner and began working toward a registered nursing degree at White…
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Women's History Month: Camille Dungy
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Read More: Women's History Month: Camille DungyCSU’s own Professor Camille Dungy is an award-winning author of four full-length poetry collections and the editor of three poetry anthologies. Her first collection of literary essays, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, will be published in June. Dungy was born in Denver in 1972, but…
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Fork Socket: An Exposé (or, No One Was Injured in the Making of This Blog Post)
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Read More: Fork Socket: An Exposé (or, No One Was Injured in the Making of This Blog Post)~from intern Joyce Bohling This month’s Fork Socket reading featured a giant game of Battleship. You know, Battleship: the game with the submarine, the cruiser, the aircraft carrier, and the destroyer, where you say “miss” so many times it starts to sound like you’re trying to get an unmarried woman’s…
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Women's History Month: Maxine Hong Kingston
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Read More: Women's History Month: Maxine Hong KingstonThe daughter of Chinese-American immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 in Stockton, California. She is the author of two highly-acclaimed works of nonfiction—Woman Warrior and China Men—and has also written two novels and a number of more recent works of nonfiction. Kingston’s writing career began early with publication…
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Alumni Profile: Gabe Martinez
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Gabe Martinez~from intern Joyce Bohling Last year, Gabe Martinez graduated from the CSU with his master’s degree in Rhetoric and Composition. Today, he works as Communications Specialist for the USDA AgLearn program. In this post, he shares some thoughts about his work and how the things he learned at CSU have…
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Black History Month: Nikki Giovanni
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Read More: Black History Month: Nikki GiovanniI always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more…
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Humans of Eddy: Caitlin Montgomery
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Caitlin Montgomery~from intern Joyce Bohling Caitlin Montgomery Major: Psychology and Pre-Med What are you doing in Eddy Hall today? I am working. I do a work study, and I am a lab monitor. When do you expect to graduate? Never. *laughs* I’m expected to graduate in 2019. I’ll be taking an…