Featured Alumni

The pursuable career options with an English degree have expanded drastically in the past five years alone, broadening the use and the function of an English major in academia and outside of it. English majors are working in law, counseling, business, politics, science – fields that used to exclude the...

The alumni of our three graduate programs exhibit success in a multitude of ways once they leave the University of Colorado Boulder, personally and professionally. They enter diverse and unique career paths that do not always revolve around academia, even extending the skills they learned in the English Department to...

One of the key components of the English Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is the rigorous and highly selective PhD program in Literature. The fully-funded five-year program involves coursework, a Comprehensive Examination, undergraduate teaching, and a dissertation has trained a large number of bright and accomplished alumni. Their...

Beeck is the co-founder of the Boulder International Film Festival, now going into its 14th year.

Cheney is an American author, scholar, and former talk-show host. She is the wife of the 46th Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney and served as the Second Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

Chopra is a poet and Fulbright Fellow who teaches in the MFA Program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Craig is a Canadian-American screenwriter and film director, who started his career as an actor.

Foreman is an American multi-platinum recording artist and member of the electronic pop duo 3OH!3

Goddard is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. He began his career as a writer on numerous acclaimed television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, and Lost.