The English department has replaced a section of ENG 429 (Topics in Renaissance Literature: Renaissance Revenge Drama) with Topics in Renaissance Literature: Women in Shakespeare. View the updated winter quarter 2015 graduate course descriptions here.
The new website for Slag Glass City has launched. Created by Professor Barrie Jean Borich with support from DePaul’s English department/MAWP program, the journal accepts general submissions on a rolling basis from September 15 to June 15. Click here to submit to Slag Glass City. The magazine is looking for “new, original nonfiction literature and art from, by, and about cities, urban sustainability, and what does and does not makes cities livable.”
The third annual Chicago Book Expo is taking place this Saturday, December 6, at Columbia College Chicago (1104 South Wabash Avenue). The event is free and open to the public. The exposition runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check out the schedule here. See below for a sampling of DePaul connections to the event. Chicago and the Novel (11:30 a.m.): Novelists Rebecca Makkai (The Hundred-Year House), Kathleen Rooney (O Democracy!), a visiting assistant professor at DePaul, and Ian Morris (When Bad Things Happen to Rich People) discuss their novels set in the Chicago area. (Film Row Cinema) Chicago After… Read Article →
Waffling about winter 2015 courses? See below for one possibility. ENG 471 (Hybrid) Bibliography and Literary Research Thursdays, 6 p.m.–9:15 p.m. Class meets face-to-face: 1/8, 1/22, 2/5, 2/26, and 3/12 Professor John Shanahan MAE: Core Requirement “Our investigation will cover theoretical topics in book and media history from the first decades of printing to the present. The course will include theoretical readings and hands-on activities with digital tools and methods. ” – Professor Shanahan View a more detailed course description here.
Join DePaul professor and Poetry East editor Richard Jones for the Fifth Wednesday Journal release party at the Book Cellar on Thursday, November 20, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Remember to fill out your autumn quarter teaching evaluations, DePaulians. The online teaching evaluation system will close tonight—Tuesday, November 18, 2014—at 11:59 p.m. To quote the email from English department chair Lucy Rinehart: “Low rates of response have been a growing problem since the implementation of the online evaluation system in 2009. For the last two quarters, for example, only half of the students enrolled in English classes completed evaluations. This means that we don’t have a reliable record of the student experience of many of the classes taught in those quarters. These anonymous evaluations… Read Article →
MAE and MAWP students: here’s one course to consider for next quarter. ENG 491-201 Science and Nature Writing Wednesdays, 6 p.m.–9:15 p.m. Professor Theodore Anton MAE: Elective MAWP: Writing Workshop Requirement; Open Elective “It’s a great course for well-paying jobs with travel, every bit as creative as fiction and poetry.” – Professor Anton View a more detailed course description here.
Any current or prospective student in DePaul’s MA in English or MA in Writing and Publishing programs may apply for one of the English department’s graduate assistantships. Graduate assistants receive a full tuition waiver and a $7,500 stipend, payable September through May. The deadline for applying for a 2015–2016 graduate assistantship is January 15, 2015. Applicants submit the following materials: 1) Completed graduate assistantship application form 2) Personal statement (200–300 words) outlining qualifications and goals for an assistantship 3) Two academic letters of recommendation 4) Copy of the writing sample submitted with the program application 5) Official Graduate Record Examination… Read Article →
Call for Proposals and Participation Metaphors We Teach By NIU’s 51st Allerton English Articulation Conference April 15 –16, 2015 Allerton Park and Retreat Center Monticello, Illinois Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2015 Applicants email a title and one-paragraph abstract of their panel or individual presentation proposal to AllertonConference@niu.edu. Those accepted will be notified by March 1. See Northern Illinois University’s 51st annual Allerton English Articulation Conference website for more information.
Join Native American poet Mark Turcotte, a visiting assistant professor in DePaul’s English department since 2009, for his upcoming in-state readings on November 13 and November 20. The November 13 reading takes place at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Can’t make the trek to our illustrious state capital? The November 20 reading will be closer to home, at Loyola University. See the fliers below for more information.
Join Emily Gray Tedrowe—a visiting assistant professor in DePaul’s English department—at Sunday Salon Chicago on Sunday, November 23, at 7 p.m. The free literary reading series takes place at Riverview Tavern (1958 West Roscoe Street). Suzanne Clores, James Finn Garner, and Sharon Solwitz will also be reading at this month’s installment of Sunday Salon Chicago.
Join Georgetown’s Daniel Shore for “Prosthetic Formalism in the Digital Archive,” a lecture and workshop on digital methods for historical literary analysis. Professor Shore studies the literature of the Renaissance, with a special focus on the works of John Milton. He is the author of Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Shore is currently at work on a second book project, Cyberformalism (under contract with Johns Hopkins), which explores how searchable digital archives like Google Books, EEBO, and ECCO allow us to study the history of linguistic forms.