English Spotlight

There are about 700 regularly publishing literary journals in America—and each year a writer and blogger named Clifford Garstang ranks them based on how often work from their pages is reprinted in the prestigious annual Pushcart Prize Anthology. Since the Copper Nickel was relaunched it has been climbing Garstang's rankings,...

Assistant Professor of History Rachel Gross, Clinical Associate Professor of History Cameron Blevins and Associate Professor of English Michelle Comstock all recently won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to pursue a digital walking tour and curriculum project related to Auraria's history. Recovering Auraria’s Past: Building a Digital...

Alejandro Lucero, who just graduated in December with a degree in English–Creative Writing, has had his poetry chapbook, Sapello Son , accepted for publication by Bull City Press , a nationally renowned poetry press out of Durham, North Carolina. A "chapbook" is a poetry collection roughly one third to one...

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...