Faculty & Department News

The Department of English , the Program for Creative Writing , and the Program for Writing and Rhetoric condemn anti-Black police violence and systemic racism. As the world knows, George Floyd was murdered by four Minneapolis police officers on May 25th. Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot by white vigilantes while...

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...

A well-known paragon of the English Department is the mentorship faculty provide to students over the course of their studies at CU Boulder. Whether you are a first time undergraduate learning the foundations of writing or an experienced PhD candidate about to be named an expert in your field, English...

One particular highlight of the English Department at CU Boulder can be found in the varied cross-disciplinary research of its faculty members. From American and British literature to creative writing to popular culture, film, and digital media, faculty specialties provide a hybrid of traditional and experimental instruction that allows students...

"Attack of the 50 Foot Indian" by Stephen Graham Jones is now available through Saga Press! About the book: A Tale of Two Moons. Every government of every nation debates what to do when a fifty-foot tall man, dressed in a loincloth and dripping from the sea, appears off the...

Dr. Adam Bradley, Full Professor of English, has been named the 2020 recepient of the Hazel Barnes Prize at the University of Colorado Boulder. The $20,000 Hazel Barnes Prize is the largest and most prestigious single faculty award funded by the University of Colorado Boulder. It was established in 1991...

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...

“A good class can save a bad day.” So said by Dr. Jeff Cox, full professor of English, who has recently returned to teaching full-time after 21 combined years of service in administrative positions at the University of Colorado Boulder. Cox, a Seattle native who grew up outside of Washington...

It is no secret that many of the English Department’s faculty juggle a myriad of roles – teaching being the obvious – but also developing and improving curriculum, mentoring student organizations, serving on student thesis committees, and working on cross-disciplinary programs to bridge divides in the humanities, just to name...