Past Events

On November 14th, 2018, Theodore Van Alst gave a reading on CU Boulder's campus. Theodore Van Alst Fiction Reading Associate Professor and Director of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University. Latest work, Sacred Smokes has just been published by the University of New Mexico Press.

Friday and Saturday: Panels, readings, screenings and discussions on immigration, migration and the US/Mexico Border. Friday: CU Boulder Norlin Library 5th floor, beginning at 3:45pm Panel with Marcos Steuernagel, Joe Bryan, Edelina Burciaga, and Jessica Ordaz (moderator: John-Michael Rivera) Refreshments 5-5:30 pm Reading/Screening with novelist and poet Cristina Rivera Garza,...

On October 4th, 2018, Stephanie Burt performed a reading on campus. Stephanie (also Stephen and Steph) Burt is the author of three poetry collections, Belmont, Parallel Play , and Popular Music , and several collections of critical works. Her essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense was a finalist for the...

On October 4th, 2018, Michaele Ferguson came and gace a guest lecture for the English Department. Want to revolutionize your classes? Michaele Ferguson, associate professor of political theory, will present on “Reacting to the Past”—a pedagogy using immersive role-playing games grounded in historical contexts and classic texts. For example, students...

On September 21st, 2018, Prof. Liz Miller gave a guest lecture for the English department. Prof. Miller's scholarly interests include nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British literature and culture, ecocriticism and environmental studies, gender studies, media studies, and radical politics. She published Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture with...

From September 6th to September 8th, 2019, The University of Colorado Boulder Romanticism Collective and the Romantic Bicentennials project hosted a symposium on “ Resistance in the Spirit of Romanticism ” held in Boulder, Colo. This meeting will be part of the ongoing, international celebration commemorating the many milestones of...

On September 5th, 2018, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., the Department of English hosted a Welcome Event for new and returning English undergrads and Literary Buffs in the courtyard between Hellems and Education. For students interested in English: Come enjoy gourmet popsicles from Le Pops, meet faculty and other students,...

On August 31, 2018, professors Claudia Milian (Duke University), Rodrigo Lazo (UC Irvine), Marissa López (UCLA), and John-Michael Rivera and Kristie Soares from CU formed a roundtable on the X of Latinx, a term that has recently dominated discussions in Latina/o and Chicana/o Studies. Can the X escape the a/o...

On April 30th, 2018, faculty member Marcia Douglas spoke about and signed her new book, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread , on Thursday, August 30th at 7:30pm. Vouchers to attend were $5 and were good for $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase the day of the event.

On August 30th, 2018, the English Department hosted a graduate program welcome event for new and returning graduate students. They enjoyed hors d'oeuvres, refreshments, and a variety of fun lawn games and activities in the Shakespeare Gardens. This was a great opportunity to meet the newest graduate students and to...