The Third Annual LAS Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference will be held again this year in early March. The Conference Steering Committee and the LAS Graduate Directors Council are searching for interested graduate students to get involved in the conference’s planning and recruiting this year. Students interested in working on the conference can contact Professor Janet Hickey with their name, program name, and email address at jhicke11@depaul.edu.
A friendly reminder that online teaching evaluations for Autumn Quarter 2016 opened today! Teaching evaluations are important both to the DePaul administration during the tenure process and professors looking to improve on their courses. Not to mention it is a unique chance for your student voice to be heard! Find evaluations online at Campus Connect.
Digital Humanities, or just simply “DH,” is the name for a set of computer-based tools and methods used by people in the humanities that are increasingly important for students in virtually every field of study. This interdisciplinary program taught by faculty from across the university focuses on training students and providing hands on experience with the tools, methods, and real-world projects that have become central to cutting-edge humanities scholarship. Winter 2016 Course Descriptions: DIGITAL HUMANITIES CORE COURSE NMS 580: MARKUP AND TEXT ENCODING IN THE HUMANITIES with Prof. Antonio Ceraso (WRD/New Media Studies) Wed. 6:00-9:15… Read Article →
DePaul Women’s Network (DWN) is hosting their 2015 Fall Faculty Forum and English Department Chair Francesca Royster will be delivering the keynote address “Rejuvenate!:Eartha Kitt, Dance, and Life-writing as a form of Re-animation.” The event is Wednesday, October 14 from 4:00-5:30 pm in the Lincoln Park Student Center Room 324. Registration closes on October 12 and seats are limited. To register follow the link here. The event is free and open to all DePaul faculty, staff, and students. Dr. Royster teaches courses in Critical Race Theory, Gender and Queer Theory, African American Literature, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Literature…. Read Article →
Save the date! An upcoming be an information session covering two-year college teaching will be held on October 26 from 4:30-6:00 pm in A&L 210-11 (the student lounge). The session will cover: How to apply for a job What to expect in an adjunct teaching position Benefits of teaching internships What college employers want to know about you Faculty from Olive Harvey College (part of Chicago City Colleges) will be on hand to describe teaching in the city colleges, answer your questions, and give advice! Students interested in two-year college teaching internships please contact Dr. Carolyn Goffman head of… Read Article →
With course carts opening in a few days, MAWP students please consider ENG 477 Topics in Publishing: American Literary Magazine – Idealists and Happy Fools with Barrie Jean Borich. “There will always be idealists and happy fools, so there will always be literary magazines.” -Rob Spillman of Tin House This hybrid course examines the American literary magazine, from inception to contemporary practice. It explores the missions, functions, styles, personalities, experiments and aesthetics of several little magazines and literary journals published form the early 20th century to the present day, particularly those representative of great moments of change in… Read Article →
Loyola University is hosting a day conference called Versions, Versioning, and Versionality. It takes place Saturday, October 31 in Information Commons 4th Floor on the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, 6501 North Kenmore Avenue between 8:45 am and 5:00 pm. The conference is about versions as things, versions as implemented editorially or in performance or for particular audiences, and leads on to theoretical reflection upon the condition of versionality. There will be four plenary papers each followed by a round-table response reflecting on their possible extensions or implications. From the organizers: Have we become more interested in versions of cultural works than… Read Article →
DePaul MAWP professor Kathleen Rooney will be reading for the Poetry Foundation’s Open Door Reading Series this October. The reading is Tuesday, October 20th at 7:00 pm at the Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street. The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and one of their current or recent students. October’s reading features DePaul’s very own Kathleen Rooney and her student Jessica Anne along with the University of Illinois’ Adam… Read Article →
Check out ENG 469 Latino/a Literature with Professor Bill Johnson Gonzalez Tuesdays 6:00-9:15 pm. This course provides an introduction to the history of Latino/a writing in the United States. Examine texts by Mexican Americans/Chicano/as, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Central Americans to trace both how these communities have constructed their individual identities, as well as how they have collectively interrogated the historical amnesia and exclusions of U.S. nationalist scripts. Special emphasis will be placed on acquiring the historical and cultural contexts necessary for teaching these texts. Topics to be discussed include: Trans-American origins of “American” writing Literature of… Read Article →
DePaul University will be conducting a national search during the 2015-2016 academic year to identify the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ next permanent dean. On Tuesday, September 29 at 4:15 – 5:00 pm there will be an open forum with students to discuss the appointment of the new dean in the Student Center room 120A, LPC. To facilitate that process, a College of LAS Dean Search Committee has been established, comprised of representatives from the college’s faculty, staff and student body, as well as the university’s administration. The following individuals have been appointed: Bohdana Bahriy, student representative… Read Article →