My name is Christopher Ostro, and I’m an educator living and working in the Denver-Boulder area for the last 16 years.

I was born and raised in the metro-Detroit area and attended the University of Michigan on scholarship. I was originally an engineering/math student, but switched directions and ultimately received my BA from Michigan in 2010, triple-majoring in Classical Languages, Comparative Literature, and History.

In the summer of 2010 I moved to Boulder to pursue my PhD in Classical Studies. From day one of my PhD program, I was excited about teaching and it’s always been something I considered more or a privilege than a job. Eventually I got the chance to leave my PhD program early and start teaching for the Program of Writing and Rhetoric… so I took it. For the next 12 years I taught for PWR while also working on the course design side of the university, providing faculty perspectives and helping spearhead the response to GenAI. I now teach English courses for the Division of Continuing Education at CU and, while the journey has been indirect at times, I’ve loved every step of it and I’m excited to see how it continues to evolve.

 Here is a link to my RateMyProfessor page (highest rated at CU!).  Here is a link to my page on a site that does data visualizations for internal CU professor evaluations (although it looks like they’ve stopped updating the site). And here is a link to the University of Colorado’s FCQ database.  If you search “Ostro, Christopher” here you can get the raw data from every semester I’ve ever taught at CU.