The English department’s end-of-the-year celebration will take place on Friday, June 5, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Arts & Letters Hall.
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DePaul associate professor Miles Harvey and visiting assistant professor Kathleen Rooney will be leading writing workshops at the 2015 Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference, which will take place July 30–August 1. Writers can register here.
DePaul associate professor and MAWP director Michele Morano will be reading at Sunday Salon Chicago, a free literary series, on May 31 at 7 p.m. The event will take place in the Roscoe and Damen Room at Riverview Tavern (1958 West Roscoe Street). Other featured readers include Jeffrey Condran, Aviya Kushner, and Jillian Lauren.
Chicago Women in Publishing (CWIP) is hosting a mentorship night and publishing career panel on Monday, May 18, at 6 p.m. in Room 408 of Arts & Letters Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The inaugural Chicago Young Adult Book Fest will take place on Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. After checking out a variety of panels with YA authors at Conrad Sulzer Regional Library (4455 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618), attendees can make their way over to The Book Cellar for a reception and book signing.
This Friday, May 8, the DePaul English department‘s sixth annual English spring conference will take place in Arts & Letters Hall from noon to 8 p.m. More than forty MAE, MAWP, and undergraduate students will present their academic and creative work. The conference will also include a digital humanities workshop led by alumna Amanda Licastro, a career panel featuring recent graduates, and a keynote address by author Crystal Chan. Refreshments will be available throughout the day, and a reception will conclude the day’s events. Friends and family are more than welcome to attend this celebration of DePaul’s English department community. View… Read Article →
DePaul’s second annual Diversity Film Festival is accepting submissions of short films (up to 15 minutes in length) through May 10, 2015. The competition is open to all current DePaul students. The festival will take place on May 29, 2015.
The DePaul Humanities Center is hosting Foucault and the Legacy of the Prisons Information Group, a symposium and film screening, in Room 115 of Richardson Library on Friday, May 8. According to the Humanities Center, “This workshop is designed to examine the unique nature and history of Le groupe d’information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, known as the GIP) that Foucault created with his partner, the sociologist Daniel Defert, in December of 1970. The workshop will consider consider its legacy for current struggles around incarceration and all the carceral techniques of surveillance, control, and normalization that have historically been associated… Read Article →
DePaul’s literary magazine, Crook & Folly, is hosting two events in May to celebrate the release of its latest issue. *** On the Threshold of Crook & Folly: A Reunion Reading Saturday, May 16, at 7 p.m. The Book Cellar (4736-38 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625) *** Crook & Folly 35 Launch Party Thursday, May 28, at 5 p.m. The DePaul Art Museum (935 West Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614)
Curbside Splendor is hosting a pop-up book fair on Sunday, April 19, from noon to 5 p.m. at the Empty Bottle (1035 North Western Avenue). The event is free with an RSVP or $8 at the door.
The Women’s Center and the Center for Intercultural Programs (CIP) at DePaul present Braver New World: A Conversation on Sci Fi for Social Change. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Cortelyou Commons (2324 North Fremont Street). Walidah Imarisha, the coeditor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements, and Francesca Royster, DePaul professor and chair of the English department, will discuss the power of science fiction for building social justice strategies and visions.
Digital Scholar Amanda Licastro, MAE ’08, teases out insights from student course blogs, online academic genealogies, and Twitter. BY HANA YOO Amanda Licastro has more than 1,000 Twitter followers. One week, she recalls, her tweets garnered more than 29,000 views. Generally, her Twitter account averages a couple thousand views per week. “I joke that I got into the graduate center through Twitter,” says Licastro, MAE ’08, currently a PhD student in English at CUNY Graduate Center and an instructional technology fellow at Macaulay Honors College. As a prospective graduate student, Licastro started following academics… Read Article →