Faculty Accomplishments

Colleen Donnelly was announced as the Recipient of the 2024/2025 CU Denver Faculty Assembly Award. Colleen has been tirelessly committed to the CU Denver community, particularly through her advocacy for disability awareness and accessibility across campus. Her work has helped ensure that our campus is more inclusive and supportive for...

Wayne Miller was featured on High Plains Public Radio and they read his poem "On Childhood" from his book The End of Childhood, which was published on March 26. Here is the link to the radio reading. Here is the link to the book.

Teague Bohlen's creative non-fiction piece "Once More to the Rural" has been anthologized as the lead story in The Alma Journal , which in turn has been reviewed (and positively) in the Rocky Mountain Reader! Be sure to give it a read here!

Paul Demarte was interviewed by Shoutout Colorado on his podcast channel, Rabbit Troop Sucks . His podcast focuses on obscure, forgotten about and often overlooked films and they proceed to discuss and examine the film, "often with hilarity". Read the full article here! Congrats Paul!

Teague Bohlen wrote a piece in Westword on Andy Scahill's Rainbow Cult Film Screening of The Wizard of Oz at Meow Wolf. Here's a preview of the article, "University of Colorado Denver film professor Andy Scahill has a lot to say about the 1939 movie classic The Wizard of Oz...

Masoud Mahmoodi has a new article that was published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education. Here is the abstract for the study: "The present study aimed to explore the relationship between reading attitude, motivation, and the metacognitive awareness of reading strategies (MARS) of adult EFL learners. Ninety-seven Iranian...

Emily Wortman-Wunder's essay "Geography of Forgetting" was published in the Fall/Winter issue of The Colorado Review ( https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/features/geography-of-forgetting/ ) and her essay "Rooted" was selected for Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue (The Best of Thirty Years of Creative Nonfiction).

Andrew Scahill, founder of Rainbow Cult, was interviewed on Channel 9 News where they talked about his work as a film professor, celebrating two years of Rainbow Cult and going from a backyard movie night to selling out 7 shows at Meow Wolf Denver . The Rainbow Cult is hosting...

Michelle Comstock's new book, Composing Resonance: Culture and Collaboration in Sonic Practices , has been published. COMPOSING RESONANCE offers an important new cultural and rhetorical framework for situated sonic practices. Michelle Comstock and Mary Hocks demonstrate how sound artists and musicians' ritualized practices of embodied listening create an acute sense...

Andrew Scahill's Rainbow Cult was featured as the cover of Out Front Magazine for September 2024 as well as receiving a retrospective feature. They even did a piece for the magazine titled, "Become a Saint, Join the Rainbow Cult ", where "Welcoming new saints to the cult, Andy Scahill, draped...