Christine Sneed will have a release party for her recent story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (University of Massachusetts Press 2009). This collection has been well received, and it won AWP’s 2009 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. Read below for details on the release party, which everyone in the English Department at DePaul is encouraged to attend: When: 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 17 Where: Women and Children First, 5233 N. Clark St in Andersonville. An independent bookstore and Chicago literary fixture. Refreshments will be served. Below is the review from… Read Article →
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Please join us as Literary Agent Michele Rubin, of Writer’s House in New York, discusses “The Future of the Book” on Tuesday, October 26, 2010. She is the first speaker in the Humanities Center’s second 2010-2011 lectures series: Digital Humanities: The Future of the Book and Other Quandaries. Please see attached flyer and below for details. DIGITAL HUMANITIES The Future of the Book and Other Quandaries Tuesday, October 26, 2010 DePaul Student Center, 314 2250 N. Sheffield Ave. 5:30 reception • 6:00 lecture Michele Rubin Literary Agent, Writer’s House, New York “The Future of… Read Article →
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 is the National Day on Writing! Started by the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Day on Writing seeks to celebrate the significance of writing in our everyday lives. As stated on their website, the National Day on Writing will: celebrate the foundational place of writing in Americans’ personal, professional, and civic lives. point to the importance of writing instruction and practice at every grade level, for every student and in every subject area from preschool through university. emphasize the lifelong process of learning to write and composing for… Read Article →
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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 →