If you haven’t yet submitted your work to the Fourth Annual Spring English Conference, you’re in luck! The submissions deadline has officially been extended to Monday, April 8th, at 11:59 p.m. Submission guidelines remain the same and you can find them here. *** The Visiting Writers Program has two exciting on-campus readings taking place this week. On this Thursday, April 4th, poet Jay Baron Nicorvo will be reading from his book Deadbeat at 6:00 p.m. in room 115 of the Richardson Library. You can read the complete details on our previous post. On Monday, April… Read Article →
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We are excited to announce that Rita Leganski will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Spring English Conference. Leganski is a 2009 graduate of DePaul’s MAWP program, and this February she celebrated the release of her first book The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow, a magical realist tale in the Southern Gothic tradition, which started out as a short story in Dan Stolar’s fiction class. We are honored to have Leganski speak at the conference, and we hope her presence encourages participation in this great student-run event. As a reminder, the Spring English Conference is… Read Article →
A reminder for MAE students working on their Digication ePortfolios: don’t forget that tomorrow, Saturday, March 9th, there will be a special Digication workshop for MAE students in the SAC 240 computer lab from 10-11:30 a.m. Details here. *** DePaul’s Department of International Studies and 7Vientos Press are pleased to announce an upcoming reception for the release of Rey Andújar’s newest book, Saturnalia, on Friday, March 15th, at 7:30 p.m. in Cortelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont. This event is cosponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations, Department of English, Latin American & Latino Studies Program,… Read Article →
Earlier this week, we announced the release of Prof. Francesca Royster’s new book. We’re excited to add that Dr. Royster will be on WBEZ tomorrow morning, discussing her book, Sounding Like a No-No, about the post-soul music of the 1970s and 1980s, with Tony Sarabia and Richard Steele. Tune into 91.5 FM between 9:15 and 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 21st to hear the interview! *** Summer Literary Seminars is very excited to announce their 2013 unified (Lithuania and Kenya) literary contest for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. It will be held this year in affiliation… Read Article →
Design Cloud would like to invite the Depaul English department to join them on Thursday, February 21st for their first ever Poetry Night. Poetry Night will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Scheduled readings will fill the first hour and any and all interested poets are invited to read their work during an open mic portion during the second hour. Featured Readers include Matthew Corey, Susan Hogan, Paul Luikart, Jason Noah and Mylo Reyes. There will be a $5 suggested donation. Design Cloud describes themselves as, “an innovative space, a collective resource, a culture… Read Article →
This month, the DePaul English Department is holding a series of Student Information Sessions with the candidates for the Assistant Professor of Early Modern English Literature, a tenure-track position in The Department of English to begin in September, 2013. A total of three sessions will be held in ALH 210-11, one for each candidate. All DePaul English Graduate Students are encouraged to attend and give their input. The third and final Student Information Session will be held this Monday, January 28th, with Megan Cook. Cook’s background includes: August 2011-present: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Bowdoin… Read Article →
The DePaul Humanities Center would like to invite everyone to attend the next event in their 2012-2013 series exploring Nostalgia and The Age of Enlightenment. This Thursday, January 17th, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the DePaul Art Museum, Matthew Girson, Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design at DePaul, and H. Peter Steeves, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul, will lead a public participatory discussion entitled “Irony and Excellence after the Enlightenment? Yeah, Right. Sure.” The DePaul Humanities Center describes the evening’s topic as follows: When modernity and the Enlightenment project revealed their final stages—a move toward… Read Article →
DePaul English Graduate students had a very productive winter break– we received announcements from the following students about their recent awards and publications. Are you a student or graduate with news to share about an award, publication, job, or other accomplishment related to your degree? Email Maria at mhlohows@depaul.edu to be featured in Ex Libris’s Student & Alumni News. Congratulations to Bethany Brownholtz (M.A.W.P. ’12) on getting a poem published in the December 2012 edition of Broad Magazine, the online publication of Loyola University Chicago’s Women’s Studies & Gender Studies department. Bethany’s poem, entitled “What it’s… Read Article →
Academy Chicago Publishers is currently looking for two or three interns for an unpaid winter internship in the publishing industry. Zhanna Vaynberg, a recent MAWP graduate, is the managing editor at Academy Chicago Publishers in charge of finding interns, making this an especially promising opportunity for current DePaul English graduate students looking to get a foot in the door at a local independent publishing company. Academy Chicago Publishers provides a laid-back office environment where interns can pick their hours to work around their schedules. Tasks vary from marketing & social media to reading submissions, proofreading… Read Article →
Reminder: As current grad students are enrolling in Winter Quarter classes this week, don’t forget to check the course descriptions for Winter 2013 and Spring 2013. Many course times, locations, and descriptions have been updated– some of them very recently! *** The English Department is excited to announce their next Career Panel: “How to Become an Editor.” This panel will take place on Tuesday, October 30th from 6:15-7:15 p.m. in Arts & Letters Hall room 308. Panelists will include Donna Seaman, senior editor for Booklist, Jonathan Messinger, co-publisher of Featherproof Books, and Perrin Davis, senior… Read Article →
In Student News, congratulations to Mellissa Gyimah (M.A.W.P.), who recently participated in the International Student Voice Magazine essay competition and made the top 10 out of over 700 submissions! You can read Mellissa’s essay on the International Student Voice Magazine’s website. *** The Winter 2013 schedule is posted! Please note that this schedule is still subject to change and will be so for a while. Over the next two weeks, we will be adding course descriptions from the professors to the page, so keep checking back as you plan your schedule for the rest of the year…. Read Article →
REMINDER: The deadline for applying for PTS awards for the 2012 Spring Quarter is TOMORROW Wednesday, September 26th. Complete instructions and the application form can be found on the MAE and MAWP D2L sites under “Content.” *** In Alumni News, congratulations to Marcy Ferrey (MAWP ’12) who recently acquired the position of Digital Content Editor for a new digital startup company, Career Girl Network. Marcy is putting her MAWP skills to work managing all of Career Girl Network’s digital content, writing and editing articles, and developing the website’s video platform. *** The Direct Action &… Read Article →