Category: BRAG
Find out the latest accomplishments from alumni, students, and staff! This who DePaul is most excited about!
A DePaul Alum Wrote a Book! Read Kathleen Rooney’s Interview with Logan Berry
https://brooklynrail.org/2021/11/books/Logan-Berry-with-Kathleen-Rooney
Congratulations to Professor Jones on His New Book! Tune in to the Upcoming Reading
Registration Link: https://kirkwood.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sceGtpj0uGdIdCHqw4sGGbgv1lpgEwyOP
A Poem by Professor Kathleen Rooney Has been Nominated
Heavy Feather Review has nominated a poem by Professor Kathleen Rooney titled “A Power or Ability of the Kind Possessed by Superheroes” as Best of the Net 2021! Check it out at link below!
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2021/09/15/botn2021/
Congratulations to Miles Harvey & Kathleen Rooney
Join us in congratulating Miles Harvey and Kathleen Rooney, whose work has been honored by the Society of Midland Book Awards this year!
Congratulations to Professor Dinius!
We would like to congratulate Marcy J. Dinius, Associate Professor in the department of English. Professor Dinius has been awarded her SECOND Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award (in just as many years) to Japan for Spring 2022. Dinius will lecture at Ochanomizu University and Tsuda University in Tokyo.
Alum Book Review! At the End of the World, Turn Left by Zhanna Slor
A DePaul MAWP alum wrote a book! And it comes out this month! Wow, we are so thrilled to celebrate Zhanna Slor and her debut novel, At the End of the World, Turn Left. Read the full review here.
Congratulations to Professor Megan Heffernan!
DePaul’s English Department extends a warm congratulations to our very own Megan Heffernan on the publication of her book Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Today marks one month since the book was released! Check it out here. Next month, Megan will be joining authors Laura Kolbys…Continue reading Congratulations to Professor Megan Heffernan!
Congratulations to these DePaul Writers!
This year’s Chicago Reader “Best of Polls” is open for voting through Feb. 8 and includes: Alum Caro Macon Fleischer (BA 2016, MFA 2020) for Best Playwright Kathleen Rooney for Best Novelist Kathleen Rooney’s Poems While You Wait for Best Poetry Organization Congrats to all! Be sure to show your support by voting in the poll: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/best-of-ballot-voting-nominations/Content?oid=83800909#//
Love Talks Event — Tonight!
Join authors Michele Morano and Destiny O. Birdsong’s discussion as a part of the Visiting Writers Series. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/love-talks-an-evening-with-michele-morano-and-destiny-o-birdsong-tickets-132143850815
Congratulations to Carolyn Goffman!
Congratulations to Carolyn Goffman for the publication of her new book As Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Professor Goffman specializes in postcolonial literature and theory. Her new book, Mary Mills Patrick’s Cosmopolitan Mission and the Constantinople Woman’s College (Lexington Books, 2020), follows Mary Mills Patrick, the president of the college for 34 years. The…Continue reading Congratulations to Carolyn Goffman!
Congratulations to Kathleen & Beth Rooney!
Our very own Kathleen Rooney and sister Beth were published in the New York Times this week! Check out their essay, A Lesson From the Strange and Lovely World of ‘Leaf Town’: The story of the rise and fall of a society built by schoolchildren The sisters are both writers, and Professor Kathleen Rooney is…Continue reading Congratulations to Kathleen & Beth Rooney!