LAS Student Government Senators, Benjamin Bui and Bohdana Bohny, along with Student Government Executive Vice President, Kristina Pouliot, are hosting an event on marketing humanities degrees. The event, “Learn, Acheive, Succeed: How to Market your LAS Degree” will be March 1st from 4:30-5:30 pm in A&L Room 207. Panelists include Gene Beiriger (Dept. History), Ed Childs (Career Center LAS Specialist), and LAS alumna Nya Brooks. You can find out more through OrgSync.
This Friday, March 4th the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences will be hosting Crossing Boundaries the third annual LAS Interdisciplinary Conference. The event will be held between 12:00-5:00 pm in McGowan South. The conference will feature graduate research from students across the humanities as well as a keynote, “Scholarship Outside the Box” hosted by LAS faculty. A full schedule of events is available below, or contact LASGraduateOffice@depaul.edu for questions. Schedule: 12:00-12:15 WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS Lucy Rinehart, Interim Dean & Associate Professor of English 12:20-1:35 PAPER SESSION I Group A: “Gender Identity in Literature” Group… Read Article →
To commemorate Women’s History Month, The Women’s Center is hosting “An Evening with Aja Monet” on Tuesday March 8th. In addition to performing her work, Ms. Monet will engage in a moderated discussion about art as a form of social resistance. Find out more on the flyer below. More on Aja Monet: “Poet Aja Monet Confronts Police Brutality Against Black Women With #SayHerName” “Aja Monet Uses Poetry as a Tool to Protest Violence and Racial Injustice” Vibe “Tongue Tactics: 9 Afro-Latino Poets Who Get Radical On The Mic”
Mark your calendars! The 7th Annual the Spring English Conference will be held on Friday, April 29th. Submissions, open for both creative and academic writing, are due April 1st. Stay tuned for further details on guidelines, requirements, and the announcement of the keynote speaker!
DePaul professor Miles Harvey will be one of the faculty at the University of New Orleans’ creative writing workshops in Cork, Ireland this summer. The program takes place June 17 – July 16. Find out more information on the flyer below, or visit the program’s website here.
Mark Turcotte and his poetry students will recite works inspired by the DePaul Art Museum’s current exhibit “Dianna Frid & Richard Rezac: Split Complementary” this coming Tuesday at 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
DePaul English Department alum Teresa Villa-Ignacio, who earned a bachelors degree in English in 2000, will be presenting “Aspirational Images and Posthuman Ethics: Cole Swensen, Suzanne Doppelt, and Pierre Alferi” at the University of Chicago this Thursday, February 18. Find out more on the flyer below.
Professor Kieth Mikos will continue the Literary Studies Speaker Series this quarter with his presentation, “Dots and Dashes – Scraps and Stains: Moving Beyond Dickinson’s Manuscripts.” The event takes place on Thursday, February 25 from 4:30-6:00 pm in Arts and Letters Room 413. Mikos earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, culture and technology, and the history of philosophy. His most recent work examines textual materialism and issues of scale in Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville, where he considers how seemingly small, inconsequential details can have very… Read Article →
The Career Center’s ASK mentor program will be hosting a relaxed cofee mixer next Wednesday in Arts and Letters geared toward LAS students. Find out more on ASK’s website.
The 24th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Langauage and Media (MCLLM) deadline for 15 minute research proposals is fast approaching! 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 February 19 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 at the University… Read Article →
The Department of English in collaboration with One Book, One Chicago and Slag Glass City will be hosting a panel of artists across disciplines to discuss the status of artistic creation in Chicago. The event takes place Monday, February 22 in the DePaul Art Museum from 6:00-8:00 pm. See the flyer below for details!
Former DePaul professor Amina Gautier will be hosting a book launch party for her recent short story collection The Loss of All Lost Things. The event will take place Friday, February 12 at the Women and Children First bookstore at 5233 N Clark at 7:30 pm. From Women and Children First: “Amina Gautier’s The Loss of All Lost Things is a short story collection that illuminates the beauty that can be found in inconsolable loss. Leading us through terrible realities, Gautier ultimately leaves us with the promise of hope and redemption. When this collection won the 2014… Read Article →