English Spotlight

Professor, Chair of English, and Editor of Copper Nickel, Wayne Miller, recently had his poem " Parable of Childhood" featured as the "encore" on the podcast The Slowdown , hosted by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón (episode 559).

Assistant Professor in English Kari Campeau recently published a new article reporting on findings from a study supported by her New Faculty Grant from the Office of Research Services. This article, “Vaccination double bind: A study of pregnancy and COVID-19 vaccine decision-making.” (in Rhetoric Society Quarterly ), comes from the...

Cameron Blevins, Associate Professor Clinical Teaching Track in History, and Professor John Tinnell of English, are part of an inter-campus team that received the CU Next Award for their project, Data Advocacy for All. The $300,000 grant, received in May, will soon provide students with the opportunity to learn how...

Assistant Professor of English Kari Campeau recently published new findings from a study where she interviewed adult participants in phase three clinical trials for a Covid vaccine. The study aimed to understand participants' motivations and experiences related to clinical trial participation, as well as their conceptions of science and the...

Aurora native Ahja Fox, English Department Creative Writing alum, was recently selected as the city's new Honorary Poet Laureate . She was selected out of six candidates after an extensive application process, which included a written application, in-person interview and performance of an original work. Fox was sworn in August...

Kari Campeau, Assistant Professor of English, published in the latest Technical Communication Quarterly : “ It Makes Everything Just Another Story”: A Mixed Methods Study of Medical Storytelling on GoFundMe .” The article presents findings from an interview- and text-based study about writing and storytelling on medical crowdfunding platforms and...

Nicky Beer’s new book of poems, Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes , will be out from Milkweed Editions on March 8. Publisher’s Weekly called it an, “imaginative and spirited collection.” Pending changing COVID regulations, there will be an in-person launch reading for the book at BookBar (4280 Tennyson St.) on...

English Professor Wayne Miller received a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship to support his collaborative translation of the short story collection Sellers Of Chaos by the Albanian writer Moikom Zeqo.

Associate Professor of English Rodney Herring’s article “' Money is not a Pledge': Early Financial Genres, the Battle of the Banks, and John Law's Money and Trade Considered ” appeared in the most recent issue of The Eighteenth Century . Co-authored with Mark Longaker, the essay uses rhetorical analysis to...

English Professor Jeffrey Franklin’s Where We Lay Down is a multifarious and expansive poetry collection, inclusive of a wide range of voices, places, and experiences, far from a single-themed book. It swings from bathing a baby in the kitchen sink to emptying a grandfather’s closet, from sailing off of Australia...