Rebecca Johns’s first novel, Icebergs, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, The Countess, is forthcoming in October from Crown Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, the Mississippi Review, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Ladies’ Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she is thrilled to join the English Department at DePaul. Rebecca is teaching ENG 484: Feature Writing during the Winter… Read Article →
Our students have been busy this summer and fall! Check out the great accomplishments and publications from current MAE and MAWP students below. Have your own announcements? Email mtranber@depaul.edu to see your accomplishments on Ex Libris! Teaching Internships in Two-Year Colleges The following students are currently doing the 2-Year College Teaching Internships: Heath Black (MAE), Harold Washington College; Steve Bogdaniec (MAWP), Wright College; Erin Carr (WRD), College of Lake County; Jennifer Davis (MAE), College of Lake County; Kevin Lyon (WRD) Wright College; Shabnam Mahmood (MAWP), Wright College; Jennifer McKinney (MAE) College of Lake County. Steve… Read Article →
Joe enrolled in the M.A.E. program in the winter of 2009 and is joining the Writing Center this fall as a Graduate Assistant. He earned his B.A. in Sociology with minors in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Loyola University New Orleans in 2006. After graduating from Loyola, he worked as a legal assistant for a non-profit law office in New Orleans. In addition to great literature, Joe’s academic interests include philosophy, economic history, and social theory. Stay tuned for more graduate assistant profiles in this series.
[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 →
Program: MAWP Graduate Assistant Role: Associate Editor, Poetry East Publications: McNamara, Andrew. “Ahead of the Curve.” Montgomery Living, September 2009, pp. 26-28. McNamara, Andrew. “The Art of Jewelry Making.” Montgomery Living, June 2010, pp. 18-20. McNamara, Andrew. “The Art of Words.” Montgomery Living, June 2009, pp. 22-23. McNamara, Andrew. “Field of Dreamz.” Montgomery Living, March 2010, pp. 44-47. McNamara, Andrew. “Harboring Food and Fun.” Montgomery Living, August 2009, pp. 16-17. McNamara, Andrew. “Pigeon Forge: A Family Hot-Spot.” Montgomery Living, July 2010, pp. 58-60. McNamara, Andrew. “Playing Together.” Montgomery Living, December 2009, pp. 36-38. McNamara, Andrew…. Read Article →
On behalf of the entire graduate faculty in the Department of English, we would like to welcome the nearly 70 of you who began your master’s studies this month, and to the over 200 students who are returning to DePaul after a summer away from graduate classes. We extend to you a warm “Welcome back!” We send greetings as well from Ms. Jan Hickey, the assistant director of the English department’s two graduate programs. From Prof. John Shanahan: I am delighted to be the new director of the Master of Arts in English program. I… 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 →
Our alumni have been busy this summer with jobs, publications, and writing projects. Read along for news from some of our recent graduates. Krystal Baugher (MAWP ’10) has just published an article in the online journal Elephant. The article has the provocative title of “More Sex with More People: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Open Relationships”. Matt Bowen (MAWP) spent seven seasons in the NFL as a strong safety with the Rams, Packers, Redskins and Bills, including playing for Lovie Smith and Mike Martz in St. Louis. He writes for the Chicago… Read Article →
Professor David Welch has been on the English Department faculty since 2008, but he is teaching his first graduate class this year. David Welch is a recipient of the Hill-Kohn Prize from the Academy of American Poets and former Poetry Editor of Black Warrior Review. His poems have appeared in journals including AGNI Online, Kenyon Review Online, and Subtropics, as well as the anthologies Best New Poets 2007, Best of the Web 2010, and Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets University & College Prizes, 1999-2008. Look out for more faculty profiles… Read Article →
Sarah is a first-year M.A.E. student and a Graduate Assistant in the Writing Center. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from DePauw University in Greencastle, IN in 2006, where she majored in English Literature. For the past four years, Sarah has been teaching reading and writing in Bronx, New York while also earning her M.A. in education from Hunter College. As an undergrad, she worked as a tutor at DePauw’s writing center and with teacher recruitment and preparation as a Teach for America campus campaign manager. When Sarah is not at the Writing Center or class,… Read Article →
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce: Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010 Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011 www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html PDF flyer printable in color or black-and-white. Please distribute and post. We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious… Read Article →