Crook & Folly is hiring! The student-run literary and arts magazine features work by DePaul undergraduate and graduate students across various genres and mediums. Interested in being part of the team? Applications for Section Editors, Social Media, Copy Editors and Section Readers will open on September 26, 2025! Click here to apply by the deadline, October 19, 2025.
Over the weekend, Chicago Humanities wrapped up Pilsen / Little Village Day, which featured a Pilsen Public Art Tour and events with the likes of Cheech Marin (Cheech and Chong) and Zosia Mamet of Girls. But don’t fret, there are plenty of upcoming fall events to attend! Most events include a student discount, which you can select when purchasing tickets. Here’s a list of author/book events to check out in October: Illinois Tech Day 2025 UChicago Arts & Humanities Day 2025
Welcome new and returning graduate students! I hope you’re having a great start to the fall quarter. Before I jump into some exciting events and submission announcements, I wanted to extend an open call for submissions to Ex Libris. Want to write a book review, an author, alumni or faculty interview, a short reflection on an internship you’ve done in the program, or an issue in contemporary publishing? Please reach out to me, Kendall Polidori, at kpolidor@depaul.edu. I’m open to other ideas you might have, as well! Excited to collaborate with you. Now,… Read Article →
Good afternoon, everyone! We have a few announcements today, including info about the Newberry Library’s upcoming conference for graduate student scholarship and their list of summer courses, an extended call for Crook & Folly Editor-in-Chief applications, and a reminder about those rental books that you may or may not have forgotten are due this week. To help you plan your schedule, we also put together a list of deadlines for the remainder of this week, the entire summer, and the first couple weeks of Autumn Quarter! (Scroll down for info on each of these!) This… Read Article →
Happy Friday, everyone! Our first announcement: this is your reminder that teaching evaluations for SQ2025 classes are due tonight. Below is an online, paid internship opportunity with Brink Literacy Project, as well as the reminders list for Week 11—our final week! (Don’t forget about those textbook rentals!) Scroll down for details on each of these. Brink Internship (The information below has been copied from the Brink Literacy Project website.) Application deadlines: July 1, 2025 (for Aug/Sept – Nov/Dec) and December 1, 2025 (Jan/Feb – Apr/May) About Brink: Brink’s publishing internship program seeks to bring underrepresented… Read Article →
Good evening, everyone! We hope everyone is hanging in there as we head into the final stretch of the quarter. We’d like to start out with a reminder that SQ2025 teaching evaluations for LAS courses will be due this Friday, June 6. We have lots of things to share with you today, from a call for Editors-In-Chief for Crook & Folly, to a call for academic papers to the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, to calls for submissions to creative writing journals. Scroll down for details on each of these! Crook & Folly: Call for… Read Article →
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the AQ2025 Course Descriptions list is now mostly complete! Mouse over the “Classes” tab in the website header and select “Autumn 2025” to view the list.
Happy Monday, everyone! (We can’t believe it’s Week 9 already!) This week, calls for submissions for six creative writing journals will be closing on Saturday; two more journal deadlines will close this Sunday. We’ll add these to the Week 9 deadline list further down. We also have four newly-listed calls for submissions. Scroll for more info on each of these! Calls for Submissions: (The information below has been copied from each journal’s website.) 1. Taco Bell Quarterly Deadline: July 31, 2025 About: My kids make books all the time for fun. Both of them want… Read Article →
The photos are in! Click here to view the photos from Friday’s Spring English Conference & Celebration! (And thanks again to everyone who attended, presented, and/or participated in this special annual event!)
Happy Monday, everyone! First, a huge thank you to everyone who attended our Spring English Conference & Celebration last Friday! We were excited to see so many students, alumni, friends, and family supporting our panelists and our award recipients. From the writing and accomplishments of English BA and MA students, to Prof. Mark Turcotte’s recent appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate, to the completion of MFA students’ theses, there was so much to celebrate! We’d also like to thank everyone who participated in our conference—especially our student panelists, who presented insightful literary analyses and meaningful creative… Read Article →
Good afternoon, everyone! Today, have one reminder and two announcements. The big day is almost here: TOMORROW, at 10:00 AM, our Spring English Conference & Celebration begins! Click here for full details, the schedule of events, and directions/parking info for visitors. We hope to see you (and your friends and family) there! We’d also like to announce that, as of today, almost all of the Autumn Quarter 2025 course descriptions have been uploaded to the descriptions list; you can find these as a subtab under the “Classes” tab. Finally, we’ve found seven literary journals that… Read Article →
Join us Friday, May 16, for the English Department’s biggest event of the year—our Spring English Conference & Celebration! In addition to presentations from Literary Studies and Creative Writing student panelists, this event will also feature a networking opportunity and career discussion with DePaul English alumni, work from MFA students, and an awards ceremony where high-achieving English students will be recognized with certificates. (There will also be a celebration cake, morning refreshments, and a buffet-style lunch!) Scroll down to view our full schedule of events and other conference materials! What is the Spring English Conference?… Read Article →