The LAS Technology Center has been making some changes to the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences website. Now, graduate students can apply for the Graduate Research Funding (GRF) Program online. Follow the link and log in with your DePaul ID to learn more about GRFs and how to apply. *** As of today, January 18th, there is still room available for the upcoming Dinner on DePaul featuring alumni working in Writing & Publishing. This program will be held on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 6 p.m. in the Alumni Center (2400 N. Sheffield). Registration… Read Article →
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In the coming weeks, the DePaul English Department will be holding a series of Student Information Sessions with the candidates for the Assistant Professor of Early Modern English Literature, a tenure-track position in The Department of English to begin in September, 2013. A total of three sessions will be held in ALH 210-11, one for each candidate. All DePaul English Graduate Students are encouraged to attend and give their input. The first Student Information Session will be held tomorrow, Friday, January 18th, with Evan Gurney of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gurney’s… Read Article →
The DePaul Humanities Center would like to invite everyone to attend the next event in their 2012-2013 series exploring Nostalgia and The Age of Enlightenment. This Thursday, January 17th, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the DePaul Art Museum, Matthew Girson, Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design at DePaul, and H. Peter Steeves, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul, will lead a public participatory discussion entitled “Irony and Excellence after the Enlightenment? Yeah, Right. Sure.” The DePaul Humanities Center describes the evening’s topic as follows: When modernity and the Enlightenment project revealed their final stages—a move toward… Read Article →
The Office of Alumni Relations would like to invite current students to an upcoming networking opportunity, Dinner on DePaul. Dinner on DePaul is a free dinner event in which DePaul invites 3 alumni in a specific professional field to have a roundtable Q&A with 15-20 students who are interested in that industry. The upcoming Dinner on DePaul will be Thursday, January 24 at 6 p.m. in the Alumni Center and will feature alumni currently working in Writing & Publishing. The alumni attending include: Jennifer Eckert (LAS MA ’06) Supervising Editor, National Geographic Learning Dean Monti (SNL ’96) Author, The Sweep of the… Read Article →
Happy New Year and welcome back to all of our students and readers! Today, January 7th, is the first day of classes for Winter Quarter 2013. *** This quarter, the DePaul Humanities Center has wasted no time in kicking off their newest series of on-campus events and readings with an upcoming evening with bestselling author George Saunders. All are invited to attend this Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in room 120 of the DePaul Student Center, 2250 N Sheffield Avenue, as Saunders reads from his newest collection of short stories, Tenth of December…. Read Article →
Winter quarter may seem ages away, especially to those of us preoccupied with finals, but the DePaul Humanities Center is pleased to announce to the DePaul and Chicago communities to their Winter 2013 Events, featuring selections from three current series: New Voices in the Humanities, Nostalgia and the Age of Enlightenment, and Digital Humanities. This quarter the DePaul Humanities Center’s events will: Welcome two acclaimed authors, who will read from just-published works of fiction, including DePaul English professor Christine Sneed, reading from her forthcoming novel, Little Known Facts. Offer two forays into Nostalgia and the… Read Article →
Academy Chicago Publishers is currently looking for two or three interns for an unpaid winter internship in the publishing industry. Zhanna Vaynberg, a recent MAWP graduate, is the managing editor at Academy Chicago Publishers in charge of finding interns, making this an especially promising opportunity for current DePaul English graduate students looking to get a foot in the door at a local independent publishing company. Academy Chicago Publishers provides a laid-back office environment where interns can pick their hours to work around their schedules. Tasks vary from marketing & social media to reading submissions, proofreading… Read Article →
In student news, Raul Palma (MAWP), has had a short story accepted for publication at Saw Palm Literary Journal, a publication based out of the University of South Florida’s English Department. Raul’s story, “Obsolescence,” was written in Professor Gautier’s Mentor’s in Craft workshop during the spring term. It will appear in the 7th issue of Saw Palm. Congratulations, Raul! Saw Palm was established in 2006 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of South Florida. Each issue offers an eclectic collection of stories, essays, poems, book reviews, and visual… Read Article →
There’s one last chance to enter the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival’s 27th Annual One-Act Play Contest, which is accepting submissions until November 1st, 2012. The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival is looking for never-produced one-act plays with a small cast that run no more than one hour in length.Finding fresh literary talent of all genres is at the heart of the Festival’s mission. The contests have nurtured writers at the start of their careers–and helped them move on to further publications, book deals, and in one case, a Pulitzer Prize. Grand Prize: $1,500 A staged reading… Read Article →
Threshold, DePaul’s award-winning, student-run literary magazine is recruiting! As new co-editors, Rachel Harthcock (undergraduate) and Borja Cabada (graduate, MAWP) are excited about the prospects of putting together a terrific team that will help them create another great issue this year. They are looking for committed students (both graduate and undergraduate) to fill the editor positions in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and dramatic literature. Candidates should have relevant experience in their own fields as well as an eye for literary criticism. If you’re interested please send them your resumé, a brief cover letter, and a link to… Read Article →
If you didn’t already hear the news on the DePaul English Graduate Programs Facebook page, the LAS Graduate Student Services now has their own Facebook page, where they’ve been posting updates from their office regarding degree conferral, registration, commencement, university events, and other important reminders for graduate students. *** A new graduate course in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse (WRD) may be of interest to international students in the MAE and MAWP programs. On Tuesday evenings (6:00-9:15 p.m.) in the Winter Quarter, Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse will offer WRD 587, Academic Writing for… Read Article →
The DePaul English Department is cosponsoring an event with the LGBTQ Studies Program, “James Arthur Baldwin: Legacy.” This roundtable discussion on the impact of the thought, writing, and activism of James Baldwin is occasioned by the 50th anniversary of the publication of Another Country and “Down at the Cross,” 25 years after his passing. Please join Keynote speaker Randall Kenan of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and roundtable panelists Ernest Hardy, Los Angeles based writer‐critic; Bill Johnson Gonzalez, English Literature, DePaul University; Daniel McNeil, Ida B. Wells Barnett University Professor, DePaul University; and… Read Article →