Email your submissions to depaulenglishcon@gmail.com until April 7!
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Call for Papers Attachment Issues: psychopolitics and the everyday3CT Lauren Berlant Graduate Student Conference April 15–16, 2022Deadline for paper proposals: Friday, February 11, 5:00pm CT When Frantz Fanon wrote about the mental disorders spurred by the “favorable breeding ground” of the Algerian War, he described a process through which the world forced itself into the mind. He reversed the typical explanation of mental disorders as individual and pathological, tracing them instead to their collective, worldly attachments. Rather than a psychocentric interpretation, Fanon gave a pyschopolitical one. Psychopolitics offers a mode of investigation that addresses the conjoining of… Read Article →
Open this post for information about the poetry and essay competitions. Deadline TODAY, April 12th.
Thank you to all who have already submitted! We’re aware of how busy the past few weeks have been, so we will be extending the deadline one more week to April 9th. 8 pg. maximum, no limit on number of submissions
There is no limit on how many pieces you submit, however please note that there is an 8-page limit for each piece. Thank you!
The deadline to submit to the 11th annual Spring English conference has been extended to this Friday, May 15th! Find full guidelines here. Initially, the department intended to host the conference through a website featuring video panels that could be accessed any time. After further consideration and discussion with students, however, the English department has decided to shift to synchronous panels to be held on Friday, June 5, 1-5pm via Zoom. The sessions will be recorded and posted to the conference website so that individuals who aren’t able to attend can later access the content. This… Read Article →
The DePaul English Department invites you to participate in the eleventh Spring English Conference. The Spring English Conference is an annual event in which DePaul English undergraduate and graduate students present academic and creative work. Although Covid-19 will make this year’s conference different from any other, the work we English students are doing is as important as ever, if not more so. As students of the English language, whether literature or creative writing, ours is the business of telling and interpreting stories. And whether Covid-19 influences your work directly or indirectly, stories are one of… Read Article →
In lieu of our annual in-person Spring English conference, the English department is now accepting submissions from students for a new 2020 Spring English Conference online launching June 1! This is an excellent opportunity for students to showcase their work and to share it with a positive, supportive community of DePaul faculty and peers. This year’s presentations will come in the form of pre-recorded videos posted on the Spring English Conference Website. Each video will be five minutes in length and may be in (but not limited to) the following areas: Fiction Creative Nonfiction Poetry… Read Article →
The English Department is looking for student writing for inclusion in the English Department newsletter. Photos are optional but welcome. If you would like to be included in the newsletter, please send your work the Department Assistant, Marc Schell at mschell2@depaul.edu Please note: Newsletter contribution is voluntary. We are not currently offering compensation for student writing.