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Please read the flyer below for more information. This conference, held on October 15, 2010 from 3:30-7:15pm in the DePaul Art Gallery, is presented by the Department of Modern Languages.
Please visit the Newberry Library’s website for more information on this event. From the website… Now in its twenty-fifth year, this seminar brings together interested scholars to read and discuss selected precirculated papers on aspects of Milton studies. Each meeting is conducted by a seminar leader, who delivers a brief presentation and leads a discussion based upon a paper he or she has written. To obtain precirculated papers, see the registration section below. Sponsored by DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Newberry… Read Article →
The DePaul Summer Writing Conference was held this past summer from July 16-18, 2010. Trudie Gauerke shares her thoughts on the experience. Trudie is a second-year MAWP student and acquisitions editor at Publications International, Ltd. in Lincolnwood. At the risk of sounding like a fifth-grade composition teacher, take a moment to think about how you spent your summer vacation. Did you dabble in writing specialties you might not otherwise fit in your Masters program, or meet with professors you might not have the opportunity to take a class from? Were you introduced to writers and… Read Article →
Mark your calendars! DePaul professors and authors will be participating in readings around the city this fall. Don’t miss out on these fabulous opportunities below: TONIGHT: Thursday, September 30 Amina Gautier, a new assistant professor of English, joins author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry) and other writers for a discussion entitled “Ordinary Women: Extraordinary Heroines–A New Paradigm for the Modern Heroine.” Women & Children First Bookstore 5233 N. Clark St. Chicago … Read Article →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50&feature=related] On Friday, October 1, The University Center for Writing-based Learning will be hosting a marathon reading of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” followed by a round-table discussion about the poem, censorship, book banning etc. As many of you know, Ginsberg was one of the most well-known poets of the Beat Generation, and his poem “Howl” caused an outrage due to explicit drug and sexual references. In May of 1957, customs officials in London seized over 500 copies of the poem as it was being printed, and Ginsberg was brought to trial for obscenity. In the end,… Read Article →
From the Directors: We’d like to encourage you to attend a special DePaul performance of Edward Albee’s play *At Home at the Zoo* on Friday, October 8th. The Office of Student Life has arranged for a special price for anyone with DePaul ID: $15 includes a ticket to the show and pizza beforehand. The show takes place at the Victory Gardens’ Biograph Theatre (aka the Zacek McVay Theatre) at 2433 Lincoln, a short walk from DePaul. A group of English faculty, students, staff and alumni will be heading to this event together. If you’d like… Read Article →
On behalf of the other committee members, I would like to tell you about The English Graduate Student Association. The group was formed in Fall 2009 to bring together English and Writing and Publishing students, enhancing the experience of the students in both programs through social and cultural events in and around Chicago. In the 2009/2010 school year, we went to a production of Faust at the Lyric Opera House in the Fall, participated in a rousing tour of the Art Institute in Winter, watched a minor-league baseball game in the Spring, and took a… Read Article →
Dan Stolar read some of his new fiction, entitled “Hymie and Ruth,” on Tuesday May 25, 2010. Josh Covell, an MAWP student, writes his thoughts on the new story. Josh is graduating from the program in June. With a whiteboard of Yiddish translations behind him, Professor Dan Stolar was brave enough to give a reading of his new fiction piece, the as-yet-unpublished “Hymie and Ruth.” From the moment he started to read aloud, it was apparent that he had captured a familiarity and bittersweetness with the titular elderly characters Hymie and Ruth Schoenberg. Hymie, who… Read Article →
Tonight, Professor Susan Harris will be reading from The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, a wonderful new collection that she co-edited. This is the final event of the year for the Visiting Writers Program, organized by Professor Miles Harvey. All should consider attending! Thursday, May 20 6:00 p.m. DePaul University Thomas P. Levan Center, Room 505 2322 North Kenmore Susan Harris is the editorial director of Words Without Borders, which translates, publishes, and promotes the finest contemporary international literature. With Ilya Kaminsky, she edited The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, which the acclaimed poet Edward… Read Article →