Tag: Michaela Hayes
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Native American Heritage Month: Charles Eastman
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Charles EastmanCharles Eastman, born Hakadah in 1858, was a Santee Dakota author, national lecturer, and activist for Native American rights. Eastman was born on a Santee Dakota reservation near Redwood Falls, Minnesota where he grew up under the care of his maternal grandmother after being separated from his family during the…
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Human of Eddy (and New Faculty): Ricki Ginsberg
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Read More: Human of Eddy (and New Faculty): Ricki GinsbergRicki Ginsberg Assistant Professor: English Education Besides your current classes, what else are you doing or have you done that we should know about? Awards? Special projects? Travel? Service work? I am working on two projects right now. One is a study of nine White teachers who work in culturally diverse urban…
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Native American Heritage Month: N. Scott Momaday
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: N. Scott MomadayN. Scott Momaday’s journey began in Oklahoma, where he was born to Natachee Scott Momaday and Alfred Morris Momaday, a writer and a painter, respectively. Momaday’s father is full-blood Kiowa, while his mother is English, Irish, French, and Cherokee, but Momaday identifies as Kiowa. About a year after Momaday was…
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Creative Writing Reading Series: Nina McConigley
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Read More: Creative Writing Reading Series: Nina McConigleyNina McConigley comes from Laramie, Wyoming, about an hour drive over the Colorado/Wyoming border. A few weeks ago, Colorado State was so lucky to welcome her to our very own Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, where she shared a piece from her most recent short story collection Cowboys and East Indians. McConigley was…
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LGBT History Month: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
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Read More: LGBT History Month: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman~by Michaela Hayes To wrap up CSU English’s celebration of LGBT history month, today we are taking a look at arguably two of the greatest poets of American history, and certainly the most influential of the 19th century– Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Despite very different poetic styles, the two have a few…
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LGBT History Month: Allen Ginsberg
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Read More: LGBT History Month: Allen Ginsberg~by Michaela Hayes Allen Ginsberg changed the world. There is really no way around this one. Ginsberg was hugely influential in so many areas of American life it is nearly impossible to believe that he was a real person and not a robot designed for superhuman warmth and creativity. Ginsberg was born…
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LGBT History Month: James Baldwin
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Read More: LGBT History Month: James Baldwin~by Michaela Hayes Summer is an exciting time for me. I always craft an extensive list of books that I want to read and then get through about half of them. In early August, with a good chunk of books left to go and only two weeks before the fall…
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LGBT History Month: Virginia Woolf
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Read More: LGBT History Month: Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf was born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882. Like many other great authors, Woolf’s path to literary fame was not ordinary. Her parents were both intelligent and social within their community, resulting in ample connections and opportunities for their children. However, their good fortune did not last long.…
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LGBT History Month: Scott Heim
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Read More: LGBT History Month: Scott Heim~by Michaela Hayes Scott Heim has had a varied and somewhat quiet career. He was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1966 and later attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence to earn a B.A. in English and Art History in 1989 and an M.A. in English Literature in…