Richelle Munkhoff, PhD, Director of Interdisciplinary & Professional Graduate Education at CU Boulder presented Plague in Denver: Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" and the Denver influenza Epidemic of 1918​ on February 12, 2018.  This talk examined a personal experience of the influenza epidemic 100 years ago, when Porter herself nearly died from the flu. She was a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News in 1918 and captured her experience in this short novel​. Dr. Munkhoff focuses on the physical and psychological repercussions of disease, and what it means to survive death.