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The London and Dublin: Travel, Heritage, and History program during December Intersession examines the heritage, public history and travel narratives of both cities. These two cities are irrevocably entwined historically, in material culture and in public memory. This continued connection can still be seen today in the difficulty of constructing BREXIT and the ongoing connections between the UK and Ireland. The deadline has been extended to June 15, 2020. Apply on the Study Abroad application portal here.   HIST 269/398: Intro to Public History Name ENG 272/379: Travel Literature and the Construction of Meaning The two… Read Article →

TellUs, the multilingual and multicultural e-magazine from  the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR), a program within the University Center for Writing-based Learning, is now LIVE.  Find their first issue here.

The deadline to submit to the 11th annual Spring English conference has been extended to this Friday, May 15th! Find full guidelines here. Initially, the department intended to host the conference through a website featuring video panels that could be accessed any time. After further consideration and discussion with students, however, the English department has decided to shift to synchronous panels to be held on Friday, June 5, 1-5pm via Zoom. The sessions will be recorded and posted to the conference website so that individuals who aren’t able to attend can later access the content. This… Read Article →

Publishers Weekly has removed their paywall, making all of their content available for free. Students and faculty can access open issues of Publishers Weekly, starting with the March 16th issue at www.digitalpw.com. Those wishing to receive an alert when the new issue becomes available can sign up to receive it at www.publishersweekly.com/digitalnotification. The entirety of www.publishersweekly.com is available without logging in, as is the digital archive of issues of PW dating back to the very first issue in 1872, which can be found at archive.publishersweekly.com.

The Slag Glass City is working on a new social media campaign called The Pandemic City. If you take photos (anything from casual phone photos to art photographs) that you believe may be a good fit for the campaign, the Slag Glass City would be more than grateful for the additional images! They will post on Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and will make sure to give the photographer credit. This might be a fun activity to incorporate into daily walks. Mail to: slagglasscity@gmail.com. Feel free to poke around the SGC Tumblr page for inspiration: https://slagglasscity.tumblr.com/tagged/pandemiccity.   –From Madeline Happold, Assistant… Read Article →

DePaul MFA/MAWP students are eligible to apply for a deeply discounted Author’s Guild membership for only $35. Click here: https://www.authorsguild.org/join/ (enter code CHAPTER20 during checkout for the discount).   Author’s Guild members receive access to intellectual-property rights lawyers, review of contracts, discounted author’s website templates, professional development, and even media liability insurance.

The DePaul English Department invites you to participate in the eleventh Spring English Conference. The Spring English Conference is an annual event in which DePaul English undergraduate and graduate students present academic and creative work. Although Covid-19 will make this year’s conference different from any other, the work we English students are doing is as important as ever, if not more so. As students of the English language, whether literature or creative writing, ours is the business of telling and interpreting stories. And whether Covid-19 influences your work directly or indirectly, stories are one of… Read Article →

They Call Us Flawed, new feminist zine from DePaul English students, is seeking poems and short stories about beauty standards for their next issue. Those interested should send submissions to KailahPeters@gmail.com with the subject line “They Call Us Flawed Submission” by May 12.

Join the Authors Guild and Chicago Regional Chapter Ambassadors from a safe distance for their springtime reading and open mic. Meet up onscreen with the Chicago literary community and hear work from readers whose work ranges from remarkable nonfiction on risk-related strategies for resilience to middle-grade fiction and contemporary lit in translation. Featured readers will include Michelle Wucker and Marlene Targ Brill, as well as a few of Professor Rebecca Johns-Trissler’s students in DePaul’s MFA program (Caro Macon Fleischer, Chad Baker, Crystal Clark, and Chris Watkins) during the open mic portion. RSVP to receive your unique, secure zoom link. Feel free to just… Read Article →

In lieu of our annual in-person Spring English conference, the English department is now accepting submissions from students for a new 2020 Spring English Conference online launching June 1!  This is an excellent opportunity for students to showcase their work and to share it with a positive, supportive community of DePaul faculty and peers. This year’s presentations will come in the form of pre-recorded videos posted on the Spring English Conference Website. Each video will be five minutes in length and may be in (but not limited to) the following areas: Fiction Creative Nonfiction Poetry… Read Article →

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