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by Ex Libris on January 14, 2016

Visiting Writers Program Welcomes MAWP Graduate Jessica Chiarella

The Visiting Writers Program will be celebrating the release of MAWP graduate Jessica Chiarella’s debut novel And Again. Chiarella will be on campus to read and discuss her work. The event takes place on Tuesday, January 26 at 6:00 pm in Richardson Library Room 115. Chiarella is a Vernon Hills native who graduated from DePaul in 2014. Currently she is enrolled in the University of California, Riverside’s MFA program. In And Again, Chiarella explores the impact of a miracle cure on the lives of terminally-ill patients. Though given a chance to live again, Chiarella’s tenderly wrought characters may have lost another crucial aspect… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 13, 2016

Keep Your Schedule Straight with Ex Libris’s New Event Calendar

January is a busy month filled with important (and fast approaching) deadlines. In the hustle and bustle of the new quarter it can be easy to loose track of key dates. To help keep things in-line, Ex Libris would like to announce its new Event Calendar widget! The calendar is your one stop shop for all DePaul events and deadlines including: Academic registration dates Application/Submission due dates On campus events and speakers Conferences and workshops Chicago area events And more! The calendar includes the date, time, and location of events as well as links for more information…. Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 11, 2016

Submit Now! LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Another reminder that the deadline to submit to the the Third Annual LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is this Friday, January 15th. The conference takes place Friday, March 4 from 12:00-5:00 pm on the Lincoln Park Campus. Find further details and the submission link here. All LAS graduate students are eligible. This conference is an opportunity to share your work with other students and faculty across departments and programs. The conference is accepting previously completed and in-progress work, presented as academic papers and poster presentations. Academic work created specifically for the conference is welcome but not… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 7, 2016

The Open Door Readings with Chris Green and Dylan Weir

The Poetry Foundation continues there Open Door Reading Series this January with readings from DePaul’s MAWP Professor Chris Green and student Dylan Weir. The event takes place January 19th at 7:00 pm at the Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street. Admission is free and open to the public! The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. Along with Green and Weir, January’s Open… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 7, 2016

University of Amherst Graduate Conference, “Putting History to Work”

The Graduate History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is now welcoming proposals for its 2016 interdisciplinary conference, “Putting History to Work.” The conference invites submissions across a range of fields, themes, and historical periods. It will be held from March 5-6 and includes a panel discussion with Jim Grossman the Executive Director of the American Historical Society as well as a networking dinner for conference presenters. Interested students can submit a one-page paper proposal, resume or CV, and a brief two to three sentence biography for consideration to ghapage@history.umass.edu & cscruggs@history.umass.edu. Submissions close… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 7, 2016

Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media at Northern Illinois

The 24th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Langauage and Media (MCLLM) is currently accepting proposals for 15 minute research presentations. MCLLM encourages proposals from a broad range of topics, particularly ones that explore the conferences 2016 theme: Keep the Change. Proposals of 200-500 words will be accepted until January 29 and may be submitted to mcllm@niu.edu with name, institutional affiliation, email, and phone number. The conference takes place on Friday April 1 and Saturday April 2nd. This year’s keynote speaker will be musician, scholar, and author Adam Gussow, associate professor of English and Southern Studies… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 7, 2016

Indiana University’s Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, “Crystal Queer”

The Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University is pleased to announce the Second Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, titled “Crystal Queer.” The conference will be held on Friday, April 1 through Saturday, April 2nd in Bloomington, Indiana. 300 word abstracts are due by January 30th, and can be sent to complit.iu@gamil.com. The attached call for papers provides further information.  

by Ex Libris on January 7, 2016

Residency Opportunity with Tent: Creative Writing

Now in it its fourth year, Tent: Creative Writing welcomes aspiring and practicing writers to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, to workshop, read, and talk about craft and literary history. Tent: Creative Writing is a free week of workshops, literary seminars, and conversations for twenty writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, in their twenties and early thirties, who are curious about connections between Jewishness and contemporary culture. This year’s workshop leaders will be Sam Lipsyte (fiction), Lisa Olstein (poetry), and Eileen Pollack (nonfiction), and the Yiddish Book Center’s academic director Josh Lambert. The… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 5, 2016

Welcome to Winter Quarter 2016!

Welcome back MAE and MAWP students! After the long winter break, Ex Libris is excited as you are for Winter Quarter 2016. A few important dates to remember as we strap in for the cold weeks ahead: DePaul’s 3rd annual LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is now accepting submissions. The conference will be held on March 4th and the deadline to submit is January 15th. Visit their site here. The English Honor’s Society, Sigma Tau Delta is now accepting applications. Find the application form here. Sunday January 10th is the last day to add/swap classes. Friday January… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on December 4, 2015

Winter Intercession Updates

Ex Libris would like to announce it will be on a short hiatus for Winter Intercession. Over the next few weeks of December, the site will be working on some small updates and will not be making any new posts. Ex Libris will still be fully operational and providing access to previous posts, class lists, and other digital resources. In the meantime, a few quick reminders: DePaul’s 3rd annual LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is now accepting submissions. The conference will be held on March 4th and the deadline to submit is January 15th. Visit their site here…. Read Article →

by Ex Libris on December 2, 2015

The First Purdue Languages and Cultures Conference

Purdue University has announced a call for submissions to a new symposium focusing on interdisciplinary research in the fields of linguistics and language use. They invite submissions of original research papers from all areas of linguistics, applied linguistics, literature, second language studies, and cultural studies of any language or language group to be presented in 20-minute talks or posters. Abstracts are due by Tuesday, December 22nd. Find full details here, and submit here.

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