Posts by: Ex Libris

The Chicago Humanities Festival Internship Program welcomes students and graduates to experience the creation and execution of public programs within a nonprofit cultural institution. This program internship will require a commitment of 14-21 hours a week, starting in late January and ending in late May, 2014. CHF internships are project-based and vary based on the program cycle and needs of the organization. While all intern projects involve inter-departmental collaboration, each intern project has a specific concentration as outlined below. Marketing Intern: Specific project-related aspects of the internship include: Research and undertake specific outreach and marketing… Read Article →

Nonfiction Writing PhD Students Wanted The University of Cincinnati is currently conducting a national search for a writer who will help establish their nonfiction program, and they hope to begin admitting PhD students immediately.  The new faculty member will join a creative writing faculty that includes poets Don Bogen, Jim Cummins, Danielle Deulen, and John Drury, as well as fiction writers Chris Bachelder, Michael Griffith, and Leah Stewart. The university hopes that  any of promising students who might be interested in pursuing a PhD in creative nonfiction apply.  Most of  the school’s PhD students teach one… Read Article →

The Department of English is Seeking Two Graduate Student Representatives The English Department is seeking two graduate students, one from the MAE and one from the MAWP, to represent English students in departmental discussions and decisions. The student representatives will join faculty on the department’s Personnel Committee to help evaluate the teaching of any professors up for tenure or promotion. Student representatives typically attend Personnel Committee meetings and relevant department, college, and university meetings; contact previous students of the professor going up for review; visit professors’ classes; and write an overall assessment of that professor’s… Read Article →

Writers have consistently taken up the causes of social justice. The Direct Action & Research Training Center (DART) is looking for those same writers: men and women interested in helping others, to attend their webinars on community organizing on Tuesday, October 22 at 7pm. DART is accepting applications for the 2014 DART Organizers Institute: a paid training and career placement program for individuals interested in launching a career in community organizing. DART has won social justice victories in education reform and low-performing schools, job training, drugs and violence, living wage, neighborhood revitalization, predatory lending, and… Read Article →