Mark your Calendars! The English Department’s Visiting Writers’ Series is proudly sponsoring Love Talks: An Evening with Michele Morano and Destiny O. Birdsong. The event is from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. on January 19th. Check back for more updates.
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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!
Event Reminder
Professor Michele Morano and David Lazar are celebrating their newest publications with The Book Cellar tonight at 7 p.m. Find out more and register here
The Visiting Writers Series: Upcoming Event
In partnership with the History Department, The English Department Visiting Writers Series is hosting a remote event for the release of Professor Kathleen Rooney and Professor Miles Harvey’s books beginning at 6:00 pm on September 30: Historical Research in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: Readings and Conversation with Kathleen Rooney and Miles Harvey. The conversation will be moderated by…Continue reading The Visiting Writers Series: Upcoming Event
Congratulations to Professor Eric Selinger on his recent publication!
In Professor Selinger’s newest release, scholars dive into the genre of romance fiction to collaborate on an extensive companion like never before. Check out the book here.
Congrats to Chris Green!
Chris Green worked with 99 other Chicago poets to write one collaborative poem addressing gun violence, speaking to its victims and their loved ones. Watch the full book trailer here. Listen to Chris on Fox32Chicago, WBEZ’s Reset, WGN, and WBBM Newsradio. Read more about the poem’s pantoum form in this interview with Hypertext Magazine, and…Continue reading Congrats to Chris Green!
Kathleen Rooney’s recent article about Alice Duer Miller
In her article for The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Rooney discusses the question in Alice Duer Miller’s book Are Women People?, a title that became a suffragist catchphrase. Read the article here.
Kathleen Rooney: How Fiction Allows Us to Inhabit Animal Consciousness
Read this article on Lithub
Kathleen Rooney discusses her novel “Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey”
Hear our very own Kathleen Rooney talk about her new novel with Rick Kogan at WGN Radio here. Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey was published in August 2020.
Professor Ted Anton Zoom Talk
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