In collaboration with Chicago Women and Publishing (CWIP) the English Department will be hosting a career panel on writing and publishing. The event takes places Tuesday, May 9 from 6:30-7:30 PM in Arts & Letters Hall Room 109. It features DePaul alumna Meghann Workman of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, author and journalist Jeff Fleischer, and editor and video producer Marian Mangoubi. See the flyer above for more details. Contact Chris Green at cgreen1@depaul.edu with questions.
The Department’s Visiting Writers Program continues this Spring with Marc Nieson, author of Schoolhouse: Lessons of Love & Landscape. The event takes place Thursday, May 18 at 6:00 PM in the Richardson Library Room 400. See the flyer above for full details.
The DePaul Humanities Center (DHC) continues their Spring 2017 Season with another Humanities in Spaaaace! event, “The Moon.” The event takes place tonight, Tuesday 11, in the Student Center room 120. The event includes a screening of Melies 1902 A Trip to the Moon, a performances and lectures from a group of moon scholars and artists, and a view of the full moon through telescope. See the flyer above for more, or visit the DHC online. The DHC’s full season schedule is available here.
The literary studies speaker series continues next week with a presentation by John Shanahan and Robin Burke. They will be presenting on their current project “Reading Chicago Reading,” a data-driven study of how, what, and who reads in the Chicago metropolitan area. See the flyer above for more details, or find out more online.
Submissions to the Spring English Conference will now be accepted until this Friday, April 7! Send submissions to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com. Details here.
Sigma Tau Delta, the English honors society, will be hosting Professor James Fairhall next week to discuss Facts, Fake News, and Alternative Facts. The event takes place on Wednesday, April 19 from 4:30-5:50 in the Richardson Library Room 115.
One Book, One Chicago, will be hosting a panel discussion on urban farming and gardening in Chicago. The event will be taking place this Thursday from 6-8 PM in Richardson Library Room 115. OBOC’s latest book is, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, check it out here. See the flyer below for full information.
This Friday is the final day to submit to the 2017 Spring English Conference! The conference accepts both academic and creative writing submissions. Please submit soon! Full details available here. Send submissions to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com.
Studio Chi continues their series of digital humanities events this month with Technologies of Recovery: A Critical Examination of a Black DH Genealogy. The event takes place Tuesday, April 4 at 5:00 PM. It will feature Kim Gallon of Purdue University discussing her work with the Black Research Press Collective (BPRC) and digital scholarship surrounding black newspapers. See the flyer above for more information.
This is a friendly reminder to English students and professors that the deadline to submit to the Spring English Conference is only a few short weeks away, Friday, March 31st ! Spring break is a great opportunity to review papers and pieces from finals and consider them for submission. Please see the flyer above for further details, or find a full call-for-submissions here. Submissions and questions can be sent to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com. We’d also like to announce that Natalie Y. Moore of WBEZ will be this years keynote speaker! Natalie is a longtime staffer at WBEZ… Read Article →
DePaul’s Black Graduate Student Association will be hosting an upcoming mixer taking place next Tuesday, March 14th at 7pm. Find out more details on the flyer above.
The LAS Graduate Student Conference is happening this Friday! The conference showcases work from graduate students across the university, and is a unique opportunity to see the projects your DePaul colleagues have been working on. Students are especially encouraged to support their fellow English students presenting. During session I from 1:30-2:45, Mihaela Stoica (MAE), Jordan Weber (MAE), and Katelynn Moxon (MAWP) will be presenting in McGowan South Room 103. Joshua Brown (MAE) will be presenting during session II from 3:45-5:00 in McGowan South Room 105. Take time to celebrate the work of your peers!