The CLA has published its most recent alumni magazine. Carol published a lovely article on our M.A. alumnus Christopher Connor and his amazing work with Denver’s Road Home, a City of Denver program addressing issues of homelessness. Read the article here. Eric is also featured in that essay and the next bit of news is […]

So. Welcome to the last day of November, the end of the penultimate week of classes, nearly the end of 2018. I hope all of you had the Thanksgiving holidays you needed to have. For lots of us some work, some play, some rest. That was true to me. A nearly ideal Thanksgiving day. I […]

Welcome ACT Human Rights Film Festival Managing Director Beth Seymour

The Department of Communication Studies welcomes the new Managing Director of the ACT Human Rights Film Festival, Beth Seymour. Seymour will be tackling the festivals’s major operations, including registering and organizing volunteers, securing partner sponsorships, inviting filmmakers and other prominent guests, procuring films for screenings, and leading programmatic planning and execution. Seymour will be working […]

Friday email on Monday

Dear Folks: Here, friends, is the email I was going to send on Friday. And then Friday at NCA happened. Hooftah! What a whirlwind of good stuff. Anyway, this is sort of out of date, but here is the letter anyway. Happy Friday! I am sending this to you from Salt Lake City where lots […]

Dunn’s Queerly Remembered receives outstanding book award

The National Communication Association has honored Colorado State University Associate Professor of Communication Studies Thomas R. Dunn with its 2018 Outstanding Book Award for Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past. Dunn will receive the award at the104th NCA conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, November 9.   The award is presented by NCA’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer […]

Study abroad communication opportunities for summer 2019 feature Italy, Spain and South Korea

In Summer 2019, the Department of Communication Studies is offering three education abroad programs in Spain, South Korea, and Italy. These programs offer unique experiences out of the class room while still earning course credit. All programs offer various financial aid opportunities including a $1,000 Communication Studies Education Abroad Scholarship per program. The Frank B. […]

Anderson to edit Quarterly Journal of Speech

The National Communication Association has selected Colorado State University Professor of Communication Studies Karrin Vasby Anderson as the next editor of its Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS), the most prestigious and oldest peer-reviewed journal published in the field of rhetorical studies. According to the journal’s website, QJS welcomes the full array of scholarship produced under […]

Last week in October

Happy Friday. We are flying right through October, aren’t we? Last full week of the month as we hurtle toward the end of the school year. What? I want to start today with an introduction. Beth Seymour is joining the department as the ACT Film Festival Managing Director. A Colorado native, Beth brings a love […]

Communication studies graduate student Juliet Letteney to receive national award for rhetorical essay

The National Communication Association is awarding CSU M.A. student, Juliet Letteney, the James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award for her paper, “The Polysemous Border Between North and South Korea: Metaphors for Unification at the Demilitarized Zone.” The award will be presented on November 9, at the 104th NCA Annual Convention in Salt […]