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by Ex Libris on October 30, 2013

Critical Language Scholarship Program

A Scholarship to Study Abroad DePaul alumni who work for the State Department have contacted the DePaul advising network to encourage our students to apply for the Critical Language Scholarship Program. Specific details are pasted below; but basically, the scholarship allows undergraduate and graduate students to study abroad for the sole purpose of language immersion and language learning. About the Scholarship: A program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program offers intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical foreign languages. The selection process is… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 17, 2013

A Three Course Meal of News, Literature, and Events

Dishes served at The Signature Room on the 95th floor of the Hancock Building are renowned for their exquisite flavor. Each dish, a balanced masterpiece, is served above the city and placed on the white tablecloths many pedestrians will never see. It’s the combination of different flavors, not to mention the ambiance, that gives each dish its particular character. Every note is accented, recognized as being an important part of the meal, the whole. Today’s Ex Libris is a happy compendium of news from all over the department. Read on to discover writing announcements, new… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on April 2, 2013

Extended Deadline, Visiting Writers Program, & More

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 →

by Ex Libris on January 14, 2013

Irony and Excellence at the DePaul Humanities Center & More

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 →

by Ex Libris on January 10, 2013

Student & Alumni News and More

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 →

by Ex Libris on October 17, 2012

How to Become an Editor, Grants for Grad Students, & More

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 →

by Ex Libris on April 3, 2012

Spring PTS Awards, Student News, and More

Current MAE and MAWP students, check your email! The English Department is offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize outstanding academic achievement of students in its two graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for Spring 2012 graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE and MAWP degrees. You are eligible to apply for a PTS award if: You have already completed at least two English graduate courses toward your MAE or MAWP degree You are enrolled in one or more English graduate classes for the current fall term You… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 23, 2012

Hannah Pittard Reading, Call for Papers from Purdue, SLS Writing Contest, and DFI Fellowship Information

Join us this THURSDAY, JANUARY 26 at 6 p.m., for a reading by DePaul’s own Professor Hannah Pittard at the DePaul University Bookstore at 1 East Jackson in the Loop. Prof. Pittard wrote the critically acclaimed novel, The Fates Will Find Their Way. She is also the winner of the 2006 Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, the recipient of a 2012 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a consulting editor for Narrative Magazine. This event is free and open to the public. *** The American Studies Program at Purdue University announces its 37th annual Symposium to be… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 4, 2012

Scholarships, Conferences, Contests and More

It’s January 4th, and only the second day of the quarter, so chances are your brand new calendars are still looking pretty blank. Not for much longer! Today on Ex Libris we have a good long list of deadlines to write down, whether you’re looking for contests, scholarships, publications, or conferences. So get out your calendars, because there’s something for everyone. *** For current seniors or recent graduates of DePaul considering graduate school: the Office of Multicultural Student Success is currently accepting applications for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award which recognizes and… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on October 28, 2011

Student News, Food Drive, and More

Happy Friday! Congratulations to current M.A.W.P. student Zhanna Vaynberg, for getting a story published in the upcoming Fall issue of Euphony Journal, and for receiving an honorable mention in Glimmer Train‘s August 2011 Short Story Award for New Writers for another story of hers, “Things You Should Never Tell Your Mother.” — The DePaul Can: University-Wide Food Drive will take place Nov. 7th through Nov. 11th. DePaul Can is a student-led initiative uniting the DePaul community in the fight against hunger, bringing together students, faculty and staff in a Vincentian way. Last spring, DePaul Can… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 16, 2011

Partial Tuition Scholarships, Alumni News, and a Networking Event

Current MAE and MAWP students, check your email! The MAE and MAWP programs are offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize outstanding academic achievement of students in the English department’s two graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2011 autumn graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE and MAWP degrees. You are eligible to apply for a PTS award if: You have already completed at least two English graduate courses toward your MAE or MAWP degree You are enrolled in one or more English graduate classes for the… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on February 15, 2011

Threshold Awards for Excellence

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 →

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