February 2015 Monthly Archive

News EJ Levy was a Visiting Writer at Wabash College in Indiana on February 12-13, 2015. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in both fiction and nonfiction and will be a Fellow at the Aspen Summer Words conference […]

Colorado State University holds its Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity (CURC) Showcase every year in the Lory Student Center Ballroom. Students from every discipline — including English! — come together to present their work to other students, faculty, and professionals. […]

by English Department Communications Intern Kara Nosal Where does a person end and her words begin? I began to wonder at the February 19th Master of Fine Arts poetry and fiction reading held at the University Center for the Arts. […]

English Department Communications Intern Marina Miller recently attended the second session of the CSU Writing Project Speaker Series on the Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life and has this to share: This session featured Dr. Ben Kirshner, Director of Community Based […]

GradShow, a one-day conference showcasing Colorado State University’s graduate student research and creative work, will take place from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 25 in the Lory Student Center. More than 300 graduate students will be presenting their work from 10:30 […]

The William G. McBride Endowment honors Bill McBride, who taught for 45 years in Colorado schools, including Manzanola, Poudre and Fort Collins High Schools, and Colorado State University. Established when he retired in 1998, the endowment continues Bill’s legacy of […]

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 […]

English major Debra Lewis recently had her convention submission “The Other Side of Two” accepted for presentation at the 2015 Sigma Tau Delta Convention. This year’s convention will be held March 18-21 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before she goes, we […]

Neil Fitzpatrick was selected as one of A Public Space’s 2015 Emerging Writer fellows. Here’s the link to the announcement: http://apublicspace.org/blog/detail/the_2015_emerging_writer_fellows Francisco Macías, who received his MA in English from Colorado State University in 2011, has just produced a new translation […]

by English Department Communications Intern Kara Nosal “You know how it feels when prose goes, not through your head, but through some other organ, like your skin?” Peter Heller asked us, the audience at his February 5th reading at the […]