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English faculty at CU Boulder, elsewhere, eye curricular change

May 4, 2018

The Department of English at CU Boulder is exploring ways to improve students鈥 learning experiences and encourage future enrollment by studying other universities鈥 efforts.

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The Puritan Cosmopolis

March 16, 2018

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.

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Someone Shot My Book

March 16, 2018

Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Julie Carr asks vital ethical questions about the role of poetry鈥攁nd of art in general鈥攊n a violent culture.

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New CU Boulder Next national outreach tour kicks off Feb. 24 in Los Angeles

Feb. 5, 2018

Marie Banich, a leading brain researcher who truly does understand what teens are thinking, and Adam Bradley, who makes the case for pop music as poetry, are among the featured presenters on the first stop of the CU Boulder Next national tour.

harriet archer

Unperfect Histories: The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610

Dec. 11, 2017

The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

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Adam Bradley's Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture contributes: 'Colorado's New Prison-Gang Program Draws From Inmate Efforts'

Nov. 22, 2017

This time Dotson sought outside help, including Adam Bradley, an English professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and founder of the school鈥檚 Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (RAP Lab). Bradley had learned of Dotson鈥檚 work through the director of a prisoner advocacy group and reached out to the inmate.

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My Hero

Nov. 19, 2017

What do you do when your dreams come true? When you were twelve, camping out in the back yard, you told your best friend that if he could draw a superhero good enough, you鈥檇 give him the perfect words to say.

Yusur

Kuwaiti citizen, English grad wins top alumni prize

Oct. 20, 2017

Yusur Al-Madani will return to Boulder on Oct. 26 to receive CU Boulder鈥檚 George Norlin Award, which 鈥渞ecognizes 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.鈥

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Re-imagining Wharton in modern-day Houston

Sept. 4, 2017

English alumna Yvonne Georgina Puig talks about her debut novel, A Wife of Noble Character.

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CU Renaissance lit scholar coins 'disknowledge' years before 'alternative facts'

July 6, 2017

Long before "alternative facts" made headlines, University of Colorado Boulder English Professor Katherine Eggert was studying late-Renaissance English writers and coined the term "disknowledge"鈥攐r, deliberately choosing to maintain one鈥檚 belief in something a writer knows is false.

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