Jackson Crawford

Our Viking-Cowboy YouTube Star

March 1, 2019

Jackson Crawford, director of CU’s Nordic Studies program, studies and translates Old Norse, a language spoken by medieval Scandinavians. Here the native Coloradan talks Vikings, videos and his contribution to the Disney animated film Frozen.

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Campus News Briefs — Spring 2018

March 1, 2018

Read about Varsity Lake, John Grisham, a memory protein and soft robots.

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Literary Theory: The Complete Guide

By Mary Klages

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Enter the Biography

June 1, 2017

In Bruce Lee, CU's Daryl Maeda sees a symbol of the modern world — and the subject of his next book.

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10 Rare Works in Norlin Library

10 of the rarest works in Norlin Library's Special Collections & Archives exhibit.

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Drummer Has a PhD

March 1, 2017

Steve Lamos, who teaches English, writing and rhetoric at CU Â鶹ӰԺ, is also the drummer for American Football, a late-’90s rock band.

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Wolfing Out

Dec. 1, 2016

CU English professor Stephen Graham Jones got hooked on werewolves as a boy in West Texas. Now he’s made them the stars of his latest novel, Mongrels.

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Second Acts

Sept. 1, 2016

Mariko Tatsumoto Layton, the first Asian woman admitted to the Colorado Bar, finds her true calling: Children's books.

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The Book of Shakespeare

June 1, 2016

Without the First Folio of 1623, the world might lack half of Shakespeare’s plays. A rare original copy comes to CU-Â鶹ӰԺ in August, the only Colorado stop on a national tour.

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The Resurrection of Lucia Berlin

June 1, 2016

A fresh collection of stories by former CU English professor Lucia Berlin became a best-seller last year, more than a decade after her death.

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