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When: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Where: U.S. Bank Building (40th floor), 190 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60603 United States Registration: Register Online here
The I AM I Showcase is THIS Thursday, May 3 from 4:30 – 7:00pm for the ELEVENTH ANNUAL I AM I Showcase in Student Center 120A/B. English Department students Megan Stringer (5pm), David Rodriguez (5:30pm), and Jordan Wright (6pm) will read poems and short-shorts as part of the exhibition. The I AM I Showcase presents the creative work from students in SEVEN DePaul schools and colleges. We will be showcasing traditional drawings, prints, and paintings as well as design work, photography, animation, music and other art forms. Live poetry readings will also be featured. Each… Read Article →
Sighted Eyes/ Feeling Heart will be screened on Monday, May 7th from 4-6pm in Richardson Library 115. Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun and other plays, was a Chicago native. Raisin was the first play by an African American woman (a young and unknown artist at the time) to run on Broadway, and it was also the first black drama to be directed by an African American director (Lloyd Richards). The play was also a huge commercial success. But while her contemporaries James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison have often captured… Read Article →
The DePaul English Department invites you to attend our 9th Annual Spring English Conference on Friday, April 27 from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM in Arts & Letters Hall. This daylong event celebrates and showcases the work of DePaul undergraduate and graduate students. Creative writing presentations include Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. Literary studies presentations include Sexuality & Love, Identity & Class, and Music & Religion. We’re excited to welcome Nate Marshall as this year’s keynote speaker. Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is the author of Wild Hundreds and an… Read Article →
Submissions to the Spring English Conference will now be accepted until this Saturday, April 8! Send submissions to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com.
Modern Languages and Studio X have invited Isabella Magni, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newberry Library, to lead the faculty and graduate student workshop Making a Digital Edition: Introduction to Text Encoding and the Petrarchive Project on Friday, May 18, 10AM-12PM (IdeaLab2 in the library, JTR 207). Breakfast will be served before the workshop. The hope is to gather a small cohort of interested faculty and graduate students for this exciting, hands-on experience. Please contact Caterina Mongiat Farina (CMONGIAT@depaul.edu) if you plan to attend.
Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women as Chicago’s South Side: A Self-Guided Tour. with authors Mariame Kaba and Essence McDowell Tuesday, April 10 5:00-7:00 pm Arts and Letters 103 Refreshments provided Lifting as They Climbed is a guide/tour book that features Black women who contributed to the development of Chicago from the mid-19th century to today. This publication tells a story of some Chicago Black women who have shaped the city’s history, including Marjorie Stewart Joyner, Mary Richardson Jones, Ida B Wells-Barnett, Margaret Burroughs, Alice C Browning, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elder… Read Article →