Faculty Accomplishments

Teague Bohlen published a piece in Westword covering Andrew Scahill's Rainbow Cult, its success and upcoming sold-out movie screening of Sister Act at Meow Wolf. Here's a little preview: "It started out as a COVID response, a backyard gathering of safe-distance human contact in a time of scant socialization. Post-pandemic,...

John Purfield just had a book review published in Enculturation of Debra Hawhee's "A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Rhetoric" . Preview of his book review: "On May 20, 2023, I participated in the Colfax Marathon 5K. On this particular weekend, the Denver sky was covered...

Assistant Professor Andy Scahill's monthly event "Rainbow Cult" celebrates one year of entertainment, community, and charity this month. Inspired by the gimmicks of William Castle and the audience participation of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the event invites audiences to engage with celebrated cult movies like Clue, Serial Mom, or...

Teague participated in the Prairie Futures residency this summer, and will have a series of essays published both in part in the Yuma Pioneer and in-full in a book later this winter. He is also shopping two novels (one literary, one fantasy/sci-fi) and starting work on another. He regularly writes...

Nicky Beer has just won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry—one of just eight US poets who received the honor this year. Guggenheim Fellowships are highly prestigious and awarded "on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise."

Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman's co-authored book The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2022) has won the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies. The Award is given by the Popular Culture Association to...

Nicky Beer's book Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes was a finalist in the category of Bisexual Poetry for 2023's Lambda Literary Awards.