IN THIS ISSUE:
- Department Celebrations
- Upcoming Events
- Student Spotlights
- Publication & Research Highlights
- CSU English In the News
- Fall '22 English Graduates
DEPARTMENT CELEBRATIONS
Congratulations to Ricki Ginsberg and Rosa Nam on being selected for the NCTE Intellectual Freedom Fellowship!
Congratulations to Virginia Chaffee and Nancy Wright, who each received a Provost’s Professional Development award to complete research that informs changes applicable to composition pedagogy and best practices in teaching!
Congratulations to Rosa Nam and Lynn Badia, who have been awarded the Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity! This award supports tenure-track and tenured faculty research in the summer with $5000 salary.
Congratulations to Stephanie G'Schwind and the Center for Literary Publishing on receiving a $15,000 Literary Arts grant from the National Endowment for the Arts!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Creative Writing Reading Series
MFA Thesis Reading: Students in their final year of CSU’s graduate program in Creative Writing will give a public reading from their thesis or other major work in progress. Please join us as we celebrate these promising writers on Thursday, February 16 at 7 PM at the Hoffert Learning Center in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. This event’s readers will include Eliana Meyer, C.E. Janecek, Courtney Zenner, Lilia Shrayfer.
FoCo Book Fest: For the Love of Reading
This February, Fort Collins Book Fest returns with a roaring line-up of local authors, writing workshops, author panels, literary brewery trivia nights, and MORE! We're thrilled to be partnering with Poudre Libraries to bring free literary events to Fort Collins throughout February. All events are open to the public.
CSU All Majors In-Person Career Fair: Feb. 14-15
Meet with different employers, learn about job opportunities and internships, and grow your network.
Rekindle the Classics
Aparna Gollapudi will lead a discussion of A Woman of Colour: A Tale on Wednesday, February 15 at 6:30-8:00 p.m. at Gryphon Games & Comics (1119 W. Drake Rd. C-30).
STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS
Internship Feature
Senior Peter Wilson prepared for graduate school by spending six months on an internship with Professor Zach Hutchins doing archival research and looking at original sources for Hutchins’ book project about Harriet Beecher Stowe’s A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Creative & Performing Arts Scholarship Winners
Hear from winners Marlene Moran (creative nonfiction), Georgia Riley-Burke (fiction), and Kobe Overby (poetry) on their writing processes and where they find inspiration.
PUBLICATION & RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Book News and Journal Publications
An excerpt from Camille Dungy’s forthcoming book, SOIL: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, was featured online in The Atlantic in January and can be found here.
Matthew Cooperman's book, Wonder About The, has won the Halycon Prize and will be published by Middle Creek Publishing in 2023. Additionally, Cooperman's book, atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless, has been accepted as part of Free Verse Editions' 2023 forthcoming publications.
Sasha Steensen’s sixth book of poetry, Well, was accepted for publication by Free Verse Editions/ Parlor Press.
Dan Beachy-Quick published new work in Paris Review Daily and on the American Academy of Poetry Poem-a-Day website.
Jaquira Díaz's essay, "Let Puerto Rico Be Free" was published in the November issue of The Atlantic and appears online here.
Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala’s proposal, "English language teaching’s (ELT’s) role in the internationalization of higher education: Current challenges and strategies to resist complicities with colonialism” has been accepted for inclusion in the Winter 2023 Special Issue of the Journal of Comparative International Higher Education (JCIHE).
Ricki Ginsberg's new book, Challenging Traditional Classroom Spaces with Young Adult Literature: Students in Community as Course Co-Designers was recently published by NCTE.
Doug Cloud’s forthcoming book, Arguing Identity and Human Rights: Among Rival Options is now under contract with Routledge.
Leif Sorensen’s chapter, “Minor Characters, Modernity, and the Indigenous Modernist Novel: John Joseph Mathews, D’Arcy McNickle, and John Milton Oskison,” appeared in The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms.
Ryan Claycomb’s book, In the Lurch: Verbatim Theatre and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation, was published by University of Michigan Press in January.
Conferences and Presentations
Anthony Becker, Ricki Ginsberg, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker, and Cindy O'Donnell-Allen presented a session, "Finding Common Ground Across Disciplines: TESOL & English Education" at the CoTESOL 45th Annual Fall Convention in Denver, CO. This session was a result of their collaborative pod – "DEISJ Balanced with Course Materials" – one of the DEISJ Pods supported by the Department of English in AY2021-22.
Additionally, TEFL-TESL graduate students presented their work at the CoTESOL Convention, including:
- Katayoun Hashemin and Sara Rad presented a session, "Peer Review: Development of bidimensional rubric for L2 writing"
- Sarah Howard presented a session, "Sociocultural Theory in Action: A Pedagogical Application"
- Zel Gabriel presented a session, "Enhancing ESL/EFL Education with Corpus Linguistics Tools & Research"
- Chnur Al-Jaf co-presented a session (with Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala), "Contemporary views on written corrective feedback: What to know!"
In November, Tobi Jacobi presented the "Writing Water Curriculum Project" (a set of engaged lesson plans and virtual fieldtrips) to the Colorado Water Center Advisory Board. Learn more about this year-long Community Literacy Center project here.
English Education graduate students Danielle Parker and Zero Marshall presented their research as part of a session titled The Future is Now: Exploring 21st Century Teaching Ideas with the Next Generation of English Teachers at NCTE 2022. Learn more about their convention experience here.
Marie Turner, Maya Hey, and Erika Szymanski convened a session at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science on "Organisms and/as Technologies," around conceptual work that they've been doing on multispecies working relationships through their Future Organisms and microbiomish projects. Separately, Maya also presented a paper on "The food without the organism: The problem(s) with using microbes to bypass macrobes in precision fermentation" and Erika presented on "What is microbiomish? Connecting principles for microbiome community structure to practices for multispecies relations." Manda Wich, an MA student in Writing, Rhetoric, and Social Change also presented at the conference on "New 'Normal': Disability and long COVID," extending work that she began last spring in Erika's E605 seminar on posthumanist theory.
CSU ENGLISH IN THE NEWS
Q&A: Abigail Chabitnoy and Emily Wortman-Wunder return to CSU for Mary Crow Alumni Reading on Feb. 2 (1/30/23)
Fort Collins Books Fest 2023 features CSU Alumni and Faculty (1/27/23)
English students partner with Fort Collins Museum of Discovery to open art show focused on BIPOC joy (12/12/22)
VCSU Veterans Writing Workshop builds community among veterans, helps process their experience (11/11/22)
For Todd Mitchell, a “nasty breakdown” led to creative “Breakthrough” (9/5/22)
Congrats, Fall Class of 2022!
B.A. English
- Justin Arias
- Julia Balas
- Audrey Barlock
- Kiva Brearton
- Kayla Cartellone
- Sarah Collett
- Rachel Garland
- Nicolas Gillette
- Maria Griner
- Chance Harper
- Ruiyi Jian
- Caitlin Kahihikolo
- Stephen Lehman
- Katherine Lindell
- Christopher Lyders
- Timothy Meenan
- Gavriella Michaelson
- Kasondra Perez
- Annione Platten
- Jack Repenning
- Adriana Reyes
- Trinity Robertson
- Taryn Smith
- Chloe Stansfield
- Jamie Suto
- Sheridan Tarbutton
- Daniel Trump
- Chuer Zhang
- Jack Zimmer
Linguistics & Culture Interdisciplinary Minor
- Kacie Bush
- Raul Chiru
English Minor
- Katrina Clasen
- Kaitlyn Clum
- Kathleen O'Brien
- Kyle Rachwalski
- Madeleine Smith
Creative Writing Minor
- Joshua Brown
- Paisley Green
- Cassie Nielson
- Savanah Overturf