English Spotlight

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.

The English department’s podcast, CultureKlatsch, will be partnering with the philosophy department and welcoming a new cohost: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Faculty of Women and Gender Studies, Sarah Tyson. The first interdisciplinary episode of season two will launch on October 14 th and will focus on race, police...

This third episode of the English Department sponsored podcast is focused on the best films of 2019, the politics of the Oscars, and the ways in which the Academy is changing. Guests include Assistant Professor Andrew Scahill and students Alyssa Haskel, Kamesh Saba, and Jake Johnson. The podcast is available...

Regarded as an international expert on British author and 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro, English Professor Cynthia F. Wong gave the keynote speech, “’Cathartic Magnificence' in Kazuo Ishiguro's Fiction" at the International Ishiguro Conference held at University of Wolverhampton, in the United Kingdom, on February 1, 2020...

The second episode of the podcast CultureKlatsch , sponsored by the English Department, focuses on the recent films of Jordan Peele ( Get Out [2017] and Us [2019] ), in the context of the larger history of the horror genre. It features Assistant Professor Andrew Scahill, students in Associate Professor...