English Spotlight

The inaugural edition of Adjunctification , a journal amplifying the voices of contingent faculty, has launched, with immense gratitude to the Colorado Department of Higher Education Open Educational Resources Grant Program for their support. Led by instructors across diverse disciplines and experiences, the journal publishes research on pedagogical challenges, program...

The inaugural edition of Adjunctification , a journal amplifying the voices of contingent faculty, launched with immense gratitude to the Colorado Department of Higher Education Open Educational Resources Grant Program for their support. Led by instructors across diverse disciplines and experiences, the journal publishes research on pedagogical challenges, program administration,...

The piece is called Dear Alice, and it takes the form of a letter written to Nicole's high school English teacher, whose husband murdered Nicole's father.

Fernanda Cabrera, Creative Writing and Spanish Major, receives 2024 Inaugural Lit Fest Creative Writing Scholarship. Fernanda is also a recipient of a 2022-2023 Michael S. Gorniak Scholarship. She has volunteered as a teacher assistant in a dual-language classroom, and she has volunteered as an interpreter for migrants applying for work...

Asma Al-Masyabi, Creative Writing Major, received the 2024 Inaugural Lit Fest Creative Writing Scholarship. Asnma is a poet, writer, visual artist, and student based in Colorado. She is a Scholastic Silver Medal Poetry winner and ruth weiss Foundation Emerging Poet Award winner with publications in The Cincinnati Review , Subnivean...

Grayson Adams, Creative Writing Major and Screenwriting Minor, received the 2024 Inaugural Lit Fest Creative Writing Scholarships! Grayson is a writer and graphic/web designer in Denver, Colorado. They are currently an intern at Copper Nickel and worked previously as lead graphic designer at Heavy Feather Review .

Asma Al-Masyabi, Creative Writing student in the Department of English, has won the 2023 Emerging Poet Award from the Ruth Weiss Foundation for her poem “The Future I Feed My Brother.” The award comes with a $1,500 grant. The Ruth Weiss Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is...

On May 25, the University of Chicago Press published Associate Professor of English John Tinnell’s new book, The Philosopher of Palo Alto : Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things . In June, Tinnell delivered talks about his book at Stanford University, Books Inc., the Palo Alto...

Associate Professors of English Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman’s co-authored book The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2022) has won the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies. The Award is given by the...

Nicky Beer, English Associate Professor, recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry —one of just eight US poets who received the honor this year. Guggenheim Fellowships are highly prestigious and awarded "on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.