MAE core requirements ENG 471 and ENG 472 have new names. ENG 471 (the class formerly known as Bibliography and Literary Research) is now Book and Media History. ENG 472 (the class formerly known as Studies in Literary Criticism) is now Literary Theory. Aside from their titles, the courses remain unchanged.
This Friday, May 8, the DePaul English department‘s sixth annual English spring conference will take place in Arts & Letters Hall from noon to 8 p.m. More than forty MAE, MAWP, and undergraduate students will present their academic and creative work. The conference will also include a digital humanities workshop led by alumna Amanda Licastro, a career panel featuring recent graduates, and a keynote address by author Crystal Chan. Refreshments will be available throughout the day, and a reception will conclude the day’s events. Friends and family are more than welcome to attend this celebration of DePaul’s English department community. View… Read Article →
The English graduate course schedules and descriptions for the 2015–2016 school year are now available. Check out the autumn quarter 2015, winter quarter 2016, and spring quarter 2016 course descriptions here or in the Classes drop-down menu. Registration for autumn quarter begins on May 4.
All MAE students who plan on submitting a capstone portfolio or thesis in spring 2015 should email Ms. Jan Hickey at jhicke11@depaul.edu with the following information by Monday, April 20: name, student ID number, current email address, current mailing address, phone number, and final requirement choice (capstone portfolio or thesis option). An information session for the MAE capstone portfolio requirement and thesis option will take place on Saturday, April 25, in SAC 232. MAE students who are unable to attend this session should contact Professor John Shanahan at jshanah1@depaul.edu to set up an individual appointment. Download… Read Article →
The Women’s Center and the Center for Intercultural Programs (CIP) at DePaul present Braver New World: A Conversation on Sci Fi for Social Change. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Cortelyou Commons (2324 North Fremont Street). Walidah Imarisha, the coeditor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements, and Francesca Royster, DePaul professor and chair of the English department, will discuss the power of science fiction for building social justice strategies and visions.
Digital Scholar Amanda Licastro, MAE ’08, teases out insights from student course blogs, online academic genealogies, and Twitter. BY HANA YOO Amanda Licastro has more than 1,000 Twitter followers. One week, she recalls, her tweets garnered more than 29,000 views. Generally, her Twitter account averages a couple thousand views per week. “I joke that I got into the graduate center through Twitter,” says Licastro, MAE ’08, currently a PhD student in English at CUNY Graduate Center and an instructional technology fellow at Macaulay Honors College. As a prospective graduate student, Licastro started following academics… Read Article →
Congratulations to DePaul visiting assistant professor Kathleen Rooney, whose novel O Democracy! is a finalist in the Adult Fiction category of The Society of Midland Authors 2015 Awards.
The add deadline for spring quarter classes is Friday, April 3 (tomorrow). The drop deadline for spring quarter classes is Friday, April 10.
Tuesday, May 19, 7 p.m. Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street Free Admission The Poetry Foundation‘s Open Door reading series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s writing programs. Each one-hour event features readings by two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. May’s Open Door Reading presents Eastern Illinois University’s Charlotte Pence and her student Derick Ledermann along with DePaul University’s David Welch and his former student, MAW alumna Laura Wagner.
Sixth Annual English Department Spring Conference Friday, May 8, 2015 • Arts & Letters Hall, 2315 North Kenmore Avenue Keynote Speaker Crystal Chan, Author of Bird DePaul English students now have one more week to submit their original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary analyses or criticism, and other work to this annual student-run conference. The conference theme is Wonder. The new deadline is Monday, April 15. Please send submissions or inquiries to: egsaconference2015@gmail.com. Submission Guidelines 1. Submit 300- to 500-word abstracts OR complete papers (complete papers are preferred, but abstracts are fine, too) for up to two works… Read Article →
DePaul alumnus Tim Hillegonds, MAWP ’14, penned a post for the Brevity blog called “Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs Because I’ve Never Been Accepted Into One.” Congratulations, Tim!
Congratulations to Tim Hillegonds, MAWP ’14, who placed his piece “Along the Front Range” in the March issue of Bluestem. Also, a belated congratulations to Chris Lites, MAWP ’12, who published a profile of science fiction writer William Gibson in Slate in December of 2014.