The English Department has arranged a special Career Center workshop for undergraduate and graduate students in English. If you’re looking for summer or permanent employment, we hope that you will find this workshop helpful in identifying and articulating your strengths to prospective employers. The workshop will take place in SAC on Thursday, May 19th from 6 to 7:30 pm in SAC 151. Here’s a description of the workshop from the Career Center: Wondering how to promote yourself to potential employers? Thinking about how your education has prepared you for success in the workplace? Join the… Read Article →
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MAWP student Stephanie Crets now writes for Time Out Chicago. You can read a recent article “Go Time,” on the Time Out Chicago: Kids website. Congratulations, Stephanie! Have your own announcements? Email mtranber@depaul.edu to see your accomplishments on Ex Libris!
Christopher Walsh graduated from the MAWP in 2009 and then spent nearly a year living in China and teaching English. Here are his reflections on that experience. Confucius once said, “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” Now, Confucius said a lot of things, and if you happen to go to China, there will be no shortage of people who can recite something the great sage uttered. I like this quote though, because it describes the best attitude you can have when choosing to live in a foreign country. Be heartened: China wants you…. Read Article →
By MAWP student Tracey Zdravkovic I never thought my mere presence in a classroom could cause a group of second and third grade students to go crazy with joy—especially as an MAWP student—but it is definitely something that I look forward to every week. Every Thursday, I trek to Jahn Elementary School (my alma mater, coincidentally) for Open Books Buddies, where I receive twenty hugs from twenty second and third graders, all dying to be better readers. “You’re very popular here,” their teacher often tells me. We try to hush the students into a low… Read Article →
For more information on Threshold, please visit their new website. Threshold will be awarding the Threshold Awards for Excellence in each of four literary categories. These categories include Dramatic Literature (one act plays and screenplay excerpts), Creative Non-Fiction (personal essays, literary journalism, memoirs, travel writing, etc), Fiction (short stories, novella or novel excerpts), and Poetry (of all forms, up to three submissions per person). The winners will be selected by one of our prestigious judges and read a portion of their winning piece at our launch party in May. The winner will receive a monetary… Read Article →
Read earlier posts in this series by MAE student Sabrina Martin: Tips and Tricks for Your Cover Letter and Résumé How to Make the Most of Your Part-time Experience The Search for Teaching Positions at Two-Year Colleges After your cover letters have been completed, your LORs sent and your applications postmarked, what do you do while you wait? Many people might be overcome with a fear of being forgotten by a search committee, and thus commence sending countless thank you letters and emails in hopes of an encouraging response. Please don’t do this. While some careers… Read Article →
This volunteer opportunity was provided to us by Colleen Corliss (MAE), who is a volunteer with World Relief Chicago. World Relief Chicago is a Christian non-for-profit social service agency that assists refugees through cultural adjustment and employment services, English classes for adults, children’s and family literacy programs, and immigrant legal services. World Relief Chicago currently need volunteers for their English Tutoring Program IN-HOME ENGLISH TUTORING PROGRAM – (Times are flexible, 2 hrs per week for 4 months) This program connects volunteers to adult refugees. The volunteer goes to the same refugee home every week for… Read Article →
Check out what our students and alumni have been up to recently. Have your own announcements? Email mtranber@depaul.edu to see your accomplishments on Ex Libris! Teaching Internships in Two-Year Colleges The following students are currently doing the 2-Year College Teaching Internships: Diana Anderson (MAE), Harold Washington College; Colleen Corliss (MAE), Wright College; Sarah Hughes (MAWRD), Robert Morris University; Eva Marnen (MAE), Robert Morris University; Sabrina Martin (MAE), Harold Washington College; Jennifer McCafferty (MAE), Harold Washington College; Terita Smith (MAWRD), Robert Morris University; Brandon Thompson (MAWP), College of Lake County; Elizabeth Turows (MAWP), Truman College. Student… Read Article →
By now, you’ve found the teaching positions you’re interested in. You have included on your résumé all your experiences that would make you an excellent candidate. The question is, how can you format your credentials to make the best possible first impression? Many applicants do not take the time to personalize their cover letters and résumés—big mistake. This is often your only communication with a search committee, and every detail is scrutinized (at least, it is a good practice to pretend like every detail will be scrutinized—it will make you a more critical editor). Here… Read Article →
Sabrina Martin continues her series on applying for teaching positions at two-year colleges. In this installment, she discusses how to apply your part-time work experience to a teaching job. Read her first article, “The Search for Two-Year Teaching Positions.” Now that you’ve started looking for two-year college teaching positions, you might be wondering, “How can I make the most of my part-time experience?” If you’ve never had a full time teaching position, you can still obtain a full time job- you just have to know how to present your experiences. DISCLAIMER: I am in no… Read Article →
In the market for a teaching job? Need some advice? Read this post by MAE student Sabrina Martin about her own struggle looking for teaching jobs at two-year colleges. For some newly admitted graduate students, this winter term will be the first in their journey towards their MA here at DePaul. For others, such as myself, it will be a time to juggle thesis research, requirement completion, and the dreaded job search, which will inevitably overtake our every waking moment. If you’re like me, you will sift through hundreds of job postings online, hoping to find… Read Article →
In his monthly series, Matthew Fledderjohann (MAE) discusses his adventures and misadventures teaching English Literature abroad. Read his previous post on Kazakhstan here. This post, written in response to a comment on his previous story, explores Kazakhstan’s response to the movie Borat. I lived in Kazakhstan for twenty-seven months and I never once met Borat Sagdiyev. The closest I ever got to his global celebrity was seeing the pluralization of his name on a sign outside a commerce building in city of Shymkent. “Borats”—posted above an uncertain advertisement depicting an extreme close-up of a high-heeled… Read Article →