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...

1992 Alum of the English Writing Program, Catherine Wallace Hope, author of the novel Once Again , is pleased to have been selected as a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards . Her on-line reading will take place at 7:00pm on May 5, and anyone interested in attending can register...

The joint English and Philosophy podcast, CultureKlatsch , just released a new episode (Season 2, Episode 4) featuring English Associate Professor Rodney Herring and focused on the changing nature of media discourse around celebrities – particularly as it pertains to the recent NY Times’ documentary on Brittney Spears. Please have a listen and subscribe!

The latest episode of the joint podcast of the English and Philosophy departments is now available. The episode focuses on the female anti-hero in contemporary television, the subject of a book by the featured guests, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman.