This Monday, November 9th, there will be an undergraduate student fiction reading. The event takes place from 6:00-7:00 pm in the Richardson Library Room 115. It will feature Michele Ledbetter, Brett Musnicki, Charlotte Pence, and Rachel Summerfield. Graduate students are encouraged to attend and support the undergraduate Creative Writing Program!
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The University of Chicago Press is hosting a book launch event for I’ll Tell You Mine: Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. The launch will feature DePaul’s MAWP professor Michele Morano as well as author and College of DuPage Professor Tom Fate – both contributors and alumni of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop Nonfiction Writing Program. The event place at the Oak Park Public Library on Sunday, November 22nd from 3:30-4:45 pm. I’ll Tell You Mine is an anthology rooted in Iowa’s successful program that goes beyond mere celebration to present some of the best nonfiction… Read Article →
Monday, November 9th the English Department will be hosting three local editors to discuss what they do, how they got their jobs, and how students might find similar work. The event will take place from 6:30-7:30 pm in A&L Room 202. Following the presentation, their will be a 30 minute Q&A. Presenters include: Contact Professor Chris Green with any questions at cgreen1@depaul.edu.
DePaul’s Philosophy Department invites students to their Workshop on Trauma, Memory, and Representation taking place on Thursday and Friday, November 12th and 13th in the Richardson Library Room 400. The workshop will conclude on Friday evening with a performance of the play Maximum Security and concurrent roundtable discussion from 4:00-6:00 pm at the event room in the DePaul Art Museum. Both events are free and open to the public. However, students interested in attending the workshops should contact Professor Maria Acosta (macostal@depaul.edu) from the philosophy department to receive papers in advance – sessions will be… Read Article →
The Third Annual LAS Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference will be held again this year in early March. The Conference Steering Committee and the LAS Graduate Directors Council are searching for interested graduate students to get involved in the conference’s planning and recruiting this year. Students interested in working on the conference can contact Professor Janet Hickey with their name, program name, and email address at jhicke11@depaul.edu.
presents: BOOK LAUNCH RECEPTION and READING Veterans Day, November 11 6:00-8:00 pm Lincoln Park Student Center Room 120 This Veterans Day come celebrate the launch of I Remember: Chicago Veterans of War, the latest book from DePaul’s Big Shoulders Books. I Remember weaves together the memories of fifty veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Veterans from the book and actors from DePaul’s Theater School will read memories from the book. Refreshments will be served, books will be available. Get your own copy of I Remember online, free of charge.
Julia Markus author, biographer, and Director of Creative Writing at Hofstra University will be on campus discussing her new biography on Lady Byron. See the flyer above for details, and follow these links for more on Markus and her new book Lady Byron and Her Daughters.
In celebration of National Career Development Month, offices from around DePaul have teamed up to offer career-enhancing events and professional development programs aimed at DePaul adult students, graduate students, and alumni. Join the university this November for networking events, employer panels, webinars, and workshops designed to help you discover strategies to build and manage your career, develop your job search skills, engage with industry experts and make connections. Find a schedule of events below, and find out more at here.
The independent publisher Rose Metal Press is hosting a reading and launch event for their new anthology Family Resemblance featuring DePaul professor Barrie Jean Borich, and DePaul graduate Tim Jones-Yelvington, as well as DePaul students Caro Macon and Jewells Santos with DePaul professor Kathleen Rooney as MC!
Dr. Carolyn Goffman will be hosting an information session on DePaul’s Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges Certification on Monday October 22nd from 4:30-6:00 pm in A&L 210-11. The session will cover: How to apply for a job What to expect in an adjunct teaching position Benefits of teaching positions What college employers want to know about you Faculty from Olive Harvey College (part of Chicago City Colleges) will be on hand to describe teaching in city colleges, answer your questions, and give advice! Students interested in two-year college teaching internships or certification please contact Dr…. Read Article →
When did you first visit a public library? What role have public libraries played in your life? What roles will they play in our “digital age”? Join the DePaul University Library and the DePaul Humanities Center on November 2, 2015, for a panel discussion of the role of the public library in American society centered around the recently-published Part of our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library (2015). Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor Emeritus at the Florida State University School of Information, and author of Part of our Lives, will… Read Article →
