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 →
Callaloo, the premier literary journal of the African Diaspora, is now accepting applications for the 2016 Brown Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop (CCWW). They invite submissions of poetry or fiction for admission consideration for this two-week workshop, which will be hosted by the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University, June 12-25, 2016. Applications must be submitted online no later than November 1, 2015. Each applicant must submit a brief cover letter and writing sample (no more than five pages of poetry or twelve pages of prose fiction)…. Read Article →
The Masters of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies (MALS) and Interdisciplinary Studies Program (IDS) are taking advantage of the Peggy Notebaery Nature Museum’s monthly event “Nature on Tap.” The event is Tuesday, October 27th from 6:00-9:30 pm at the museum – 2340 N. Cannon Drive. Meet up with your fellow graduate students and enjoy adult-only access to the museum including: Access to the Judy Istock Butterfly Haven The new “City Creatures” exhibit Highlights from the 157-year-old collection of the Chicago Academy of Sciences The “Golden Cockroach” trivia game Wine, food, and locally brewed beer Live… Read Article →
The Department of English Visiting Writers Program will be hosting Vu Tran on Thursday, October 29 at 6 pm in the Richardson Library Room 115. He will be reading from his debut novel Dragonfish. Vu Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Tulsa with an MA, from the Iowa Writers Workshop with an MFA, and from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction with a Ph.D. His work has appeared in the Southern Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Harvard Review, Fence Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Interim,… Read Article →
The Chicago Humanities Festival, in partnership with the Baskes Family, has extended the deadline for a special graduate student seminar with Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale. Successful applicants will be invited to hear Professor Snyder’s public lecture “The Holocaust as History and Warning” on Saturday, November 7th at 4:00 pm at the UIC Forum, 725 W Roosevelt Rd. They will also be invited to join Professor Snyder beforehand for a smaller private seminar from 2:00-3:00 pm in the Community Room at Powell’s Bookstore, 1218 South Halsted Street, moderated by Northwestern University Professor Karen Alter. Interested Applicants should submit… Read Article →
DePaul Women’s Network (DWN) is hosting their 2015 Fall Faculty Forum and English Department Chair Francesca Royster will be delivering the keynote address “Rejuvenate!:Eartha Kitt, Dance, and Life-writing as a form of Re-animation.” The event is Wednesday, October 14 from 4:00-5:30 pm in the Lincoln Park Student Center Room 324. Registration closes on October 12 and seats are limited. To register follow the link here. The event is free and open to all DePaul faculty, staff, and students. Dr. Royster teaches courses in Critical Race Theory, Gender and Queer Theory, African American Literature, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Literature…. Read Article →