Thanks to everyone who made it out to last night’s Big Shoulders Books Write Your Heart Out launch party! For those interested, here is the link to today’s coverage of the book! http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-teen-relationship-anthology-kogan-sidewalks-0206-story.html
Calling all MAE and MAWP Alumni The English Department is so proud of their alumni! Because of that, we are eagerly seeking information about what our alumni are up to! If you have any upcoming projects, recent achievements, or any news you would like to share with the department, we would love to hear about it! If you are interested, send an email to crestre4@depaul.edu or jhicke11@depaul.edu so we can get in contact with you!
Save the date! The 9th annual Spring English Conference will be held on April 27, 2018. Submission guidelines will be coming soon. The Spring English Conference is a unique opportunity for DePaul English students from across the entire department to come together and share their work in a friendly, comradely environment. For questions, email englishconference.dpu@gmail.com
A reminder to graduate students (or prospective students) that deadlines for positions as a English Department Graduate Assistant are due January 15! Graduate assistants work roughly 20 hours a week in the department and receive a tuition waiver for up to 12 courses and a $7,500 stipend. Interested parties can find out more below, download an application packet, and visit on the department website for full details. Each spring, the English Department awards approximately 5-6 Graduate Assistantships for the upcoming academic year. Any current or prospective student in the MA in English, MA in Writing and Publishing, or either… Read Article →
In celebration of Native American Heritage month, poets.org has collected work by and about Native American poets. Our very own Prof. Mark Turcotte has been featured! To read Professor Turcotte’s poem “Burn” click here. To see the full list of poems and essays, click here.
Congrats to Bethany Brownholtz, MAWP graduate! MAWP alumna (’13) Bethany Brownholtz will have excerpts of her thesis published in The Same but Different: Variantivity in Cognitive Linguistics to be published by the Peter Lang Publishing Group. Dr. Aleksandra Majdzińska in the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Łódź, Poland recently contacted Brownholtz about being included in the book. Brownholtz’s thesis, Exercises in Style: 21st Century Remix, is an extension of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, first published in French in 1947. In Queneau’s book, the same two-paragraph passage (Notation) is written… Read Article →
Congratulations to Kathleen Rooney, whose novel, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, is a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association’s 2017 Book of the Year! Kathleen teaches English and Creative Writing at DePaul University and is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Congrats, Kathleen, you make the department proud! A synopsis of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: It’s the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk. As she traverses a grittier Manhattan, a city anxious after an attack by a still-at-large subway vigilante, she encounters bartenders, bodega… Read Article →
From Scott Walter: Dear DePaul Colleagues, Please join us for the grand opening of the next phase of the Richardson Library’s renovation on September 27th! While work continues on some of the details, we look forward to welcoming you to our new space and to introducing you to some of the new spaces and services that will be available to you and your students in the coming weeks. With help from colleagues across the university, we have added new capacity for supporting digital scholarship in the library, as well as digital media creation, a maker… Read Article →
Attention MAE Students: Here are important details about registering for the Autumn ‘17 MAE Final Requirement. A complete description of the Capstone Portfolio and Thesis Option can be found on Ex-Libris here and on the MAE website here. Who Needs to Register: Current MAE students who have completed their course requirements and current MAE students who will complete their course requirements in Autumn ’17. The deadline for applying for Autumn 17 Degree Conferral is Thursday, September 28. Registration for Final Requirement: If you plan on submitting your Portfolio or your Thesis in Autumn ‘17, please… Read Article →
The English Department received wonderful news that alumnus Thom Kudla’s latest book, HOW I AM DIFFERENT, was named a finalist in the Poetry Category of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards! The ebook version won multiple medals in the 2017 Global Ebook Awards. HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT (HWAD), an Apple app based on that book, was recognized by the Independent Book Publishers Association as a Benjamin Franklin Digital Award Silver Honoree. To download the app, visit this site: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hwad/id1220860133?mt=8. Thom’s books of poetry COMMENCEMENT and OUT OF CONTEXT won the 2017 IndieReader Discovery Award for… Read Article →
As final grades roll-in, Ex Libris wants to offer its congratulations to all English graduate students for their hard work this year! Kudos, you make this department great. Also, deserving recognition as the year closes is Bill Johnson-Gonzalez who earned a well deserved tenure track position this year. Superb! And a nod to adjunct faculty member Jeff Kessler for defending his thesis project on the imaginary portrait in late 19th century Britain at Indiana University. Nice work Jeff! But, most importantly, Ex Libris would like to give a huge round of applause to this year’s… Read Article →
Voting is open for the Chicago Reader’s annual Best of Chicago awards and DePaul’s own Kathleen Rooney has been nominated for the category of Best Novelist! Kathleen has been making waves and garnering well deserved accolades with her new novel, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. An urban love-letter and deftly crafted portrait of a powerful woman, Lillian Boxfish has been called, “prescient and quick….a perfect fusing of subject and writer, idea and ideal” by the Tribune. Along with Kathleen, DePaul English Department alumni Alison Ogunmokun has been nominated for best poet. Congrats! To vote for Kathleen and Allison –… Read Article →