Current MAE and MAWP students, check your email! The English Department is offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize outstanding academic achievement of students in its two graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for Spring 2012 graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE and MAWP degrees. You are eligible to apply for a PTS award if: You have already completed at least two English graduate courses toward your MAE or MAWP degree You are enrolled in one or more English graduate classes for the current fall term You… Read Article →
The MAWP is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for graduate students in both fiction and creative nonfiction to work with visiting writer Eileen Pollack. In addition to her reading on the evening of April 12, Pollack has agreed to conduct a Master Class, in which she will discuss the work of three graduate students in the MAWP. Anyone may attend the actual class, but the work of only three graduate students will be discussed. Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 12, 2012: Master Class with Eileen Pollack 3:30-5:00 Location (on Lincoln Park campus) TBA… Read Article →
DePaul students, if you haven’t already heard, the deadline to submit proposals to the EGSA 2012 Spring Conference has been extended to this Friday, March 30th at midnight. This is your last chance to get those proposals in! Make sure to check the EGSA Spring Conference 2012 page on Ex Libris to download the application materials and remind yourself of all the details. *** Those with the aspirations to make your current literature or writing degree into a career should take note of an upcoming DePaul Career Center event: Career Paths for Creative and Unconventional… Read Article →
It’s the second day of the quarter, and hopefully by now all you grad students have your classes picked out, but if you’re making last minute adjustments or looking for something different, please note that Rachel Shteir, one of DePaul’s 2011-12 Humanities Fellows, is teaching a special topics course in the spring on Chekhov and Beckett. The course is THE 436, Seminar: Topics in Dramatic Literature and carries A&L domain credit. It has been approved as an elective for both MAE and MAWP students. Please contact your program director if you are interested in taking… Read Article →
Welcome back, students and faculty, from what was hopefully a very relaxing spring break! In case you did a little too much relaxing and forgot what was posted on Ex Libris before the break, here are a few reminders of upcoming dates and deadlines. Saturday March 31st-Anthony Grafton will be speaking about the future of the book in downtown Chicago as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Follow the link to learn how to get free tickets. Saturday March 31st- …is also the last day of open submissions to the Barely South Review’s fall issue…. Read Article →
The Chicago Humanities Festival is hosting an upcoming event with Anthony Grafton on the past, present, and future of the book. It will take place on Saturday, March 31 at 2pm at First United Methodist Church (77 West Washington Street). Grafton, a distinguished writer, author, and professor of history at Princeton University, will be giving a lecture entitled, “The Book: Past, Present, and Future,” which the event page describes as: “Many of us love a good cliffhanger, but today we find ourselves in a state of suspense about the book itself. What happens next for the… Read Article →
In Alumni News: Molly Tranberg (MAWP ’11, and former Ex Libris editor!) was recently hired as an Editorial Assistant and Assistant to the Publisher in the Reference Division at Oxford University Press in New York. She assists the publisher in day-to-day tasks and works to bring new online reference materials to life. According to Molly, “It’s a great first job in publishing because it’s a very traditional print publisher, but the reference division is moving into an all-online territory.” She also has some encouraging words for current students and recent grads looking for a job:… Read Article →
There’s only one week left until the EGSA Conference paper submission deadline of midnight on Monday, March 19th. EGSA needs your Poetry, Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Literary Analysis/Critical Approaches, Pedagogical and Literary Theory, and other writing on Publishing, Professional, and Teaching Practices. This is a great opportunity to showcase your work, get a line on your CV, and have fun with your classmates. While we’re still waiting for the EGSA Conference’s keynote speaker to be announced, there has been another conference development: EGSA is going to be collecting used books during the conference to donate to… Read Article →
Each year the DePaul Humanities Center selects a few DePaul faculty members to receive a Faculty Fellowship, and this year the English Department is very happy to announce that the six Faculty Fellows selected for 2012-2013 include two of our own faculty: James Murphy and Michele Morano. As faculty fellows, Murphy and Morano will each be researching and presenting a project. We’ve asked them both to share a little about their research, and here it is in their own words. From Prof. James Murphy, on his project, “The Dublin Quartet: A Cultural, Intellectual, and Literary… Read Article →
Haven’t had enough of the 2012 AWP Conference in Chicago yet? Neither have we! Following Jacqueline Maggio’s guest post on Tuesday, today we have another slightly different take on last week’s four-day writing conference from MAWP student Shane Zimmer. Thanks, Shane, for sharing your AWP reflections with Ex Libris readers. I heard a lot of big talk about the AWP Conference for a couple of weeks before the event. Despite being skeptical of hype, I did attend, all three days in fact, March 1-3 at the Chicago Hilton. For me the conference lived up to… Read Article →
Reminder: Tonight,Thursday, March 8th from 6-7:30 p.m.; Cortelyou Commons (reception preceding at 5:30) Scholar Martha Nussbaum will present: “Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities,” based on her 2010 book by the same name. *** Alumni News: DePaul MAE graduate Greg Campbell has just been hired to a tenure-line position at the Community College of Baltimore County. Congratulations, Greg! *** If you’re near the Loop Campus tonight, there’s another great reading taking place at the DePaul Center Barnes & Noble. This Thursday, March 8th, the poet Michael Warr is reading from his new collection,… Read Article →
If you didn’t attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference this weekend, you may be wondering what all the fuss was about. If you were there, you may be wishing you could re-live it…without the crowds. Fortunately for all of us, Jacqueline Maggio has written a reflection on her AWP experience and is sharing it here on Ex Libris. Jacqueline is a first-year MAWP student as well as a first-year Chicagoan (she hails from Rome, Italy). You can read more about Jacqueline’s AWP experience and more at her personal blog, fallingframes.wordpress.com. Thanks, Jacqueline!… Read Article →