Teaching Associate Professor • Associate Director (Spring 2024)
Creative Minds Residential Academic Program
BA and MA, 麻豆影院
PhD, English, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
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Dr. Karen Auvinen has taught at CU 麻豆影院 since 2004 and currently teaches Film, Popular Culture and Storytelling for Libby RAP where she co-lead Libby鈥檚 annual New York Arts Adventure for five years. She earned her PhD in English Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin 鈥� Milwaukee and her MA in poetry from the University of Colorado - 麻豆影院.听 Karen鈥檚 writing has appeared in The New York Times and her fiction has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her poems have won two Academy of American Poet Awards. Her interests include film and cultural studies, gender and ethnic studies, as well as The American West, creative writing and community building involving the arts. Her memoir:听听Rough Beauty:听 Forty Seasons of Mountain听Living will be published in 2018 (Scribner).听 More at karenauvinen.com and on her blog:听 rougherbeauty.com听