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The DePaul Career Center, Office of Multicultural Student Success (OMSS), University Center for Writing-based Learning, and the Library Learning Commons are proud to announce this quarter’s Professional Development Night, which will be held on Wednesday, May 25th from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Professional Development Night is an event for students to receive help on their resumes, develop a LinkedIn profile, interviewing tips, and other professional development topic areas. Students will engage in peer-to-peer workshop sessions at their own pace to learn more about the different ways they can achieve their professional career goals. Find the event page here,… Read Article →

DePaul and the Department of English are proud to announce the launch of the 36th annual edition of Crook & Folly! This year’s launch will take place at the DePaul Art Museum on Thursday, May 26th from 5-6pm. Join in a celebrating the work of DePaul artists and writers, along with readings from local Chicago authors (TBA), and the presentations of C&F’s Awards of Excellence. A reception will take place, featuring the musical stylings of editor-in-chief, Eric Hollander, with food and refreshments. New to this year will be a free raffle with a chance to win a past edition of… Read Article →

Congratulations to Professor Ted Anton who will be presenting at at the University of Chicago in a panel discussion of Ioan Petru Culianu. Find out for details on the flyer below.

Sunday Salon Chicago continues this month with a reading on Sunday, May 22nd at 7:00 pm at the Riverview Tavern, 1958 Roscoe Avenue. Readers include Thea Goodman, Sarah Hollenbeck, Toni Nealie, Zoe Zolbrod, and DePaul MAWP professor David Welch. The event is free and open to the public.

Celebrating the release of Her Own Accord: Women on Identity, Culture, and Community, authors Nina Barrett, Cristina Henriquez, and Laura Negrete will be on campus to participate in a panel discussion on their creative process and their experiences as women. The event takes place on Tuesday, May 17 from 6:30-8:30 PM in Cortelyou Commons. The event is co-sponsored by the English Department, Women and Gender Studies Department, and The Women’s Center in conjunction with The Great Books Foundation. Find full details on the flyer below, or the event’s web page.

DHChicago, in collaboration with the Macroanalysis and the Humanities Working Group, is accepting proposals for their digital humanities conference, “New Archival Knowledges,” being held at the University of Chicago May 19-20. DHChicago seeks to bring together scholars from across the Chicagoland area and across disciplines to present work on macroanalysis, or the computational analysis of textual data and metadata. Proposals are due Friday, May 6 and should include: a title, abstract of up to 250 words, and, in the email, the author’s name, a C.V., institutional affiliation, and email address. Send submissions and questions to… Read Article →

Dr. Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University will be the speaking on campus Wednesday, May 18th in the John T. Richardson library Room 115. Lowe is the author of multiple books including her latest The Intimacies of Four Continents (2015), a study of settler colonialism, transatlantic African slavery and the East Indies and China trades in goods and people as the conditions for modern European liberalism and empire. See the flyer below for more details.  

On Wednesday, May 4 the Department of English will be hosting a career panel directed by Chicago Women in Publishing members from 6:00-7:00 pm in Arts and Letter Hall Room 308. See the flyer below for information on panelists or email Professor Chris Green for further questions.

A final reminder that the 7th Annual Spring English Conference will be held Friday, April 29th from 10:00 am to 4:15pm on the 4th floor of Arts and Letters Hall. The conference is unique opportunity to engage in the academic and creative work of your DePaul English peers and is an important part of fostering communication within the DePaul English community. Students are encouraged to attend as much of the conference as they can, and, as always the event is free and open to the public! This year, there will be a keynote presentation by Dr. Brian T. Edwards, professor… Read Article →

Fictitious: Where Fiction Meets Improv , a unique online literary journal and show hosted by iO, is seeking submissions. Fictitious is accepting rolling submissions for short pieces of comedic fiction. Once selected, authors will be invited to read their piece at a live show at iO Chicago that takes place every fourth Wednesday of the month. Performed pieces can only be 1-3 pages, but longer stories will be considered for the online journal. At the show, selected authors will read their work and a group of iO improvisers will then improvise within their literary world. There is no submission… Read Article →

Join the Career Center for “Working for the Common Good” on April 27 for an event dedicated towards employment in social services, community service, and nonprofits. See the the flyer below for more information, or check out this sneak-peek PDF.

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