Search
Faculty and Department News
Colorado Shakespeare Festival: Bringing the Bard back to Boulder
Returning for its 61st season, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) will bring five classic plays, including William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Richard III, to CU Boulder stages from June 8 to Aug. 12. Read more
English faculty at CU Boulder, elsewhere, eye curricular change
The Department of English at CU Boulder is exploring ways to improve students’ learning experiences and encourage future enrollment by studying other universities’ efforts. Read more
Stephen Graham Jones in the News
Stephen Graham Jones, as always, has been in the news lately. Check out the latest news items, reviews, and online performances in which he has recently appeared. Read more
Faculty Publications and Awards
Paul Youngquist receives 2018 BFA Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Works
A colleague praises his work, saying “Youngquist looks to these enslaved peoples’ acts of creative resistance as a means of wresting from a dehumanizing system dignity, agency, and beauty.” Read more
Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down?, Noah Eli Gordon
"'The devil is in the details' is not a phrase that I feel I fully understood until I read Noah Eli Gordon's clever book, Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down? The problem is, as Gordon might write, that the devil, while enjoying his/her residence among the details, has no necessary relationship to them. Read more
The Puritan Cosmopolis, Nan Goodman
The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Read more
Alumni News and Publications
Kuwaiti citizen, English grad wins top alumni prize
Yusur Al-Madani will return to Boulder on Oct. 26 to receive CU Boulder’s George Norlin Award, which “recognizes outstanding alumni who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in their chosen field of endeavor and a devotion to the betterment of society and their community.” Read more
Re-imagining Wharton in modern-day Houston
English alumna Yvonne Georgina Puig talks about her debut novel, A Wife of Noble Character. Read more
Author imagines a dire future to prevent it
CU Boulder grad Carrie Vaughn’s latest science-fiction novel takes aim at 'generational short-sightedness,' while her collection of short stories wins Colorado Book Award Read more
Looking Back
Fred Moten Talk & Reception
On Feb. 6, 2018, award-winning poet and critic Fred Moten visited campus to present a... Read more
End-of-Semester Cocoa Social
On Dec. 6 and 7, 2017, Instructor Teresa Nugent and the Undergraduate Student Advisory Council... Read more
Argue-Seum: Curating the Controversial
On Nov. 16, 2017, Professor Thora Brylowe's First Year Seminar class: Saving the World: Museums,... Read more