Tag: Leif Sorensen

  • News of Note Week of October 30

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    Camille Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers has made three exciting lists this fall, one of which was BookRiot’s 20 Great Essay Collections from 2017. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s Presentimiento has been selected by Kirkus Reviews as among “The Best Indie Books of 2017.” https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/harrison-candelaria-fletcher/presentimiento/ He also had a new lyric essay,…

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  • News of Note: Welcome to Fall 2017

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    Dan Beachy-Quick has poems accepted at Poetry, New England Review, and Cincinnati Review. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher had a couple of lyric essays published during the summer break – “Family Cookbook” in Florida Review and “Flight” in Somos en escrito. He also and taught a few hybrid image and found text workshops at the…

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  • Faculty Profile: Leif Sorensen

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    ~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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  • News of Note Week of October 10

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    On October 8 Leif Sorensen presented his paper “Constructing the Pulp Genre System” at the First Annual Pulp Studies Symposium hosted by James Madison University. Joanna Doxey’s book of poetry, Plainspeak, WY, is now available for pre-order through Platypus Press (in the UK) here: http://platypuspress.co.uk/plainspeakwy.  The first twenty-five copies reserved will receive…

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  • News of Note Week of September 26

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    Tim Amidon and Michele Simmons (Miami University) gave a research talk titled “Negotiating ‘messy’ research context and design through adaptive research stances” at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) in Washington, D.C.  While at SIGDOC, Tim also participated in “Draw to communicate: How…

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  • News of Note Week of March 21

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    Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, has been named a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in Poetry. Dan Beachy-Quick’s poem, “Endangered Species,” is up today at the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day site: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-day SueEllen Campbell and John Calderazzo spent the week of spring break at the University of Montana…

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  • News of Note Week of September 28th

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    Tim Amidon and Mike Caggiano (Forestry) received funding from the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute for an interdisciplinary research project that seeks to learn how landowners, land managers, and emergency personnel in the Front Range understand the potential risks and benefits associated with Defensible Space migration efforts. The researchers have nearly…

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  • News of Note Week of February 16th

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    On Tuesday 2/24 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Tim Amidon will be facilitating a workshop titled “Demystifying Fair Use: Classrooms and the Affordances of Copyright for faculty, administrators, students, and curriculum designers as part of  the Association of Research Libraries “Fair Use Week.” Preregistration is appreciated but not required, and there are…

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  • News of Note Week of November 17th

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    Last week, TEFL/TESL faculty and students attended the Annual Co-TESOL Convention in Denver (November 14-15, 2014). Three student-led presentations were delivered at the convention: Angela Sharpe, Moriah Kent and Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker discussed the benefits of Using Corpora in the L2 Classroom; Kenshin Huang and Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker shared their insights on…

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  • News of Note Week of November 3rd

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    John Calderazzo will soon give a talk about science communication at the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins. Tobi Jacobi presented a workshop on historical documents from the 1920s New York State Training School for Girls at the Hudson Area Library in late October. Tobi Jacobi presented a critical…

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