English Spring Conference to Showcase DePaulians’ Work on Friday, May 8

This Friday, May 8, the DePaul English department‘s sixth annual English spring conference will take place in Arts & Letters Hall from noon to 8 p.m. More than forty MAE, MAWP, and undergraduate students will present their academic and creative work. The conference will also include a digital humanities workshop led by alumna Amanda Licastro, a career panel featuring recent…Continue reading English Spring Conference to Showcase DePaulians’ Work on Friday, May 8

Alumna Spotlight: Amanda Licastro

Digital Scholar Amanda Licastro, MAE ’08, teases out insights from student course blogs, online academic genealogies, and Twitter. BY HANA YOO   Amanda Licastro has more than 1,000 Twitter followers. One week, she recalls, her tweets garnered more than 29,000 views. Generally, her Twitter account averages a couple thousand views per week. “I joke that…Continue reading Alumna Spotlight: Amanda Licastro

Winter Quarter Graduate Course Spotlight: Bibliography and Literary Research

Waffling about winter 2015 courses? See below for one possibility.   ENG 471 (Hybrid)  Bibliography and Literary Research Thursdays, 6 p.m.–9:15 p.m. Class meets face-to-face: 1/8, 1/22, 2/5, 2/26, and 3/12 Professor John Shanahan MAE: Core Requirement   “Our investigation will cover theoretical topics in book and media history from the first decades of printing to the present. The course…Continue reading Winter Quarter Graduate Course Spotlight: Bibliography and Literary Research

Daniel Shore Lecture and Workshop Monday, November 17

Join Georgetown’s Daniel Shore for “Prosthetic Formalism in the Digital Archive,” a lecture and workshop on digital methods for historical literary analysis. Professor Shore studies the literature of the Renaissance, with a special focus on the works of John Milton. He is the author of Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Shore is currently…Continue reading Daniel Shore Lecture and Workshop Monday, November 17

DePaul’s New Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate Program Now Accepting Applications

Digital Humanities, or “DH,” is the name for a set of computer-based tools and methods used by people in the humanities. Digital Humanities work is all around us, from large searchable databases to interactive and mobile storytelling apps; from innovative visualization methods for art history and anthropology to new collaborative platforms for research and teaching.The…Continue reading DePaul’s New Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate Program Now Accepting Applications