While going through Ex Libris announcements this afternoon, it occurred to Jan Hickey and me that were someone so inclined, one could easily attend a writerly event almost every single day in October. It’s just a good time to be an English Graduate student! Check back frequently for events, writing contests, and other news as they are flooding the Ex Libris inbox, and we want to share them all with you! Here’s today’s batch: The Guild Literary Complex is having a writing contest, and they want to give away some award money! Fiction and non-fiction… Read Article →
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Current MAE and MAWP students, check your email! The MAE and MAWP programs are offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize outstanding academic achievement of students in the English department’s two graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2011 autumn graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE and MAWP degrees. You are eligible to apply for a PTS award if: You have already completed at least two English graduate courses toward your MAE or MAWP degree You are enrolled in one or more English graduate classes for the… Read Article →
There are only two days left to send in your submissions for the UCD Anthology Contest! The yearly anthology produced by the University College Dublin Creative Writing Masters showcases the talents of the UCD English department, but as part of fundraising efforts for this year’s anthology, the Creative Writing Masters group is running a competition open to all, from inside and outside the university. One winner will be selected from the short story and another winner from the poetry submissions and their work, along with a quick bio will be included in the anthology. The… Read Article →
The DePaul English Department has a new faculty member this fall, Prof. Marcy J. Dinius. Prof. Dinius specializes in antebellum American literature, with interests in American literature from seventeenth century to the present; African American literature and culture; visual, print, and material cultures; Atlantic and hemispheric studies; critical and cultural theory; history of the book and publishing; material culture; history of photography; film and film theory. Dinius received her PhD in English from Northwestern University in 2003. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and the Library of Congress and will be… Read Article →
On behalf of the entire graduate faculty in the Department of English, we would like to welcome the nearly fifty of you who will begin your master’s studies this month. To the nearly two hundred students who are returning to DePaul after a summer away from workshops and seminars, we extend to you a warm “Welcome back!” We send greetings as well from Ms. Jan Hickey, the assistant director of the English department’s two graduate programs. From Prof. John Shanahan: This is an exciting time in the Master’s in English program. We are running innovative… Read Article →
Are you an alumni or current student of the M.A.E. or M.A.W.P. with news of your own? Please send announcements to Jan Hickey at jhicke11@depaul.edu. Elizabeth Turows (M.A.W.P. ’11) recently accepted a position at Truman College, where she will be teaching a developmental writing class as part of their adjunct faculty. Jennifer Cremerius (M.A.W.P. ’10) was recently hired as a copywriter at an upstart online company. She is excited to begin her new position that incorporates the skills she learned at DePaul. Eric Lafountain’s (M.A.W.P.) short story “Cheese” was recently published in The Potomac… Read Article →
Are you an alumni or current student of the M.A.E. or M.A.W.P. with news of your own? Please send announcements to Molly Tranberg at mtranber@depaul.edu. A warm congratulations goes out to Rita on her accomplishments. Rita Leganski’s (M.A.W.P. ‘09) novel, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow, was recently acquired by HarperCollins. The last class she took before graduating was Dan Stolar’s Short Fiction offering. It was there that she first tried her hand at magical realism. Professor Stolar encouraged her to continue to develop the story, and this debut novel was born. Rita also published an… Read Article →
By M.A.W.P. student Brittany Petersen On Tuesday, author Ryan Van Meter returned to his graduate school alma mater to read from his new book, If You Knew Then What I Know Now, and to answer questions from students eager to replicate his journey to success. But Van Meter was the first to admit that journey was improbable, to say the least; he didn’t want to mislead his audience into thinking that his ascension as a writer was the easy or typical road. It really doesn’t happen like this, he said. At least not on a… Read Article →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nw_NjkTJbY] Ryan Van Meter—who received an MA from the creative writing program—will be reading from his much-praised new essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly recently described the book as a “moving debut” with “profoundly universal appeal.” Ryan Van Meter Tuesday, April 26 6:00 p.m. Dorothy Day Room 400 John T. Richardson Library, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave. DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus Ryan Van Meter holds an MA in creative writing from DePaul and an MFA in nonfiction writing from The University of Iowa. His essays… Read Article →
Are you an alumni or current student of the M.A.E. or M.A.W.P. with news of your own? Please send announcements to Molly Tranberg at mtranber@depaul.edu. A warm congratulations goes out to John on his accomplishments. John Lillig (M.A.E., J.D.) and co-author Richard Boonstra recently published an article, “Downtown Disposal, Inc. v. City of Chicago,” in the April, 2011 issue of the legal publication Administrative Law.
Are you an alumni or current student of the M.A.E. or M.A.W.P. with news of your own? Please send announcements to Molly Tranberg at mtranber@depaul.edu. A warm congratulations goes out to Allison on her many accomplishments. Allison Tyndall Locke graduated from the MAE program in 2005 while working for DePaul’s Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning. She taught part-time in WRD from 2006-10 and at Loyola from 2008-10 before starting her PhD in literature this year at Stony Brook University in Long Island. At Stony Brook, Allison is studying early modern English drama and continues to… Read Article →