Join us for our first reading of 2018 with guest readers : Jan English Leary Ruben Quesada Paula Carter and Sharon Solwitz Linda Bubon from the Women’s Voices Fund will also be joining us to discuss their work in Chicago. While the Riverview is under construction, we’ll set up shop at our TEMPORARY LOCATION, the Celtic Crown Public House on Western and Cullom, just west of Roscoe Village.
Writers, English Majors, Alumni & Professors Needed Internationally Have you always wanted to contribute your writing or English skills in other countries? Your skills are definitely needed here: UGANDA: Secondary School Do you excel in writing, grammar and/or literature and can tutor or teach it? If so, then we need you! Many of the things that we take for granted are crucial: –Help students develop strong writing and composition skills; to express themselves. –Writing is a subversive activity. Rote learning is the norm in Africa where they are not taught to question or create. –Teach… Read Article →
A note from Samantha Hoffman, executive director of the Chicago Writers Association Writers Conference regarding scholarships – deadline is 1/19. and the application process is relatively fast: I’m reaching out because we have writing conference scholarships to award to two students, two educators and two others. We have not yet received a single application from a student–please apply! The deadline is January 15th at midnight, but we will extend the deadline to January 19th to give them time to apply. All applicants need to do is write a 500-word essay and complete the application…. Read Article →
The Book Stall Announces The Kelly Barnhill Micro-Fiction Prize The Book Stall, an independent bookstore in Winnetka, Illinois, is pleased to announce their first-ever micro-fiction contest in conjunction with Newbery Medalist Kelly Barnhill’s reading on Tuesday, February 27th at 6:30 PM. Ms. Barnhill will be sharing work from her new book, Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories. The contest winner will get an opening spot on the program that evening, and receive 25 copies of a limited-edition broadside of their work, as well as a $100.00 gift card from the store Submit your 300 –… Read Article →
Conference activities will take place May 10-11, 2018 The deadline for submissions is January 25, 2018 Paper submissions at different stages of research are welcome. Additional information and instructions for submissions are available here. Please feel free to contact acosta@u.northwestern.edu and salihnur@u.northwestern.edu with any questions
Paper proposal deadline: Jan 31 Date of Conference: March 24 Keynote speaker: Dr. Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller Opposing Narratives of Victimhood: Jewish and Arab Muslims in Contemporary France “La relation à autrui est asymétrique : je ne dois pas attendre de réciprocité.” Emmanuel Levinas. An interest in the Other is omnipresent throughout French and Francophone literature and literary theory. From Montaigne’s Les Cannibales to Colette’s Le pur et l’impur, the literary world has long sought to encounter and unmask the Other. Indeed, the history of literature itself could be considered an encounter with the Other, be it… Read Article →
The M.A. in English and M.A. in Writing and Publishing programs are offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize the outstanding academic achievement of students in the English department’s two graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2018 Winter 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… Read Article →
Fake 2 Shadows Wednesday, February 7, 2018 DePaul Student Center, Room 120 2250 N Sheffield Avenue, Chicago 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. The “Gallery of Shadows” interactive art and science exhibit 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Lectures and Performances From Biblical Hebrew to Ancient Greek and Latin, a shade is thought to be a shadow-self, the part that continues on into the afterlife. But our shadows, of course, are always with us—not a fake-self, not a specter of a thing, but part of what it means to be in the light, to be enlightened. Featuring a lecture… Read Article →
In Conversation with Great Minds: Michael Shannon Monday, January 29, 2018 DePaul Student Center, Room 120 2250 N Sheffield Avenue, Chicago 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Screening of Take Shelter (2011, dir. Jeff Nichols) 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. Conversation Academy Award/Golden Globe nominee and SAG Award winner, Michael Shannon visits the DePaul Humanities Center and joins Center director H. Peter Steeves to talk about a career that has taken him from stage (“Bug”) to television (“Empire Boardwalk”) to film (Nocturnal Animals), establishing him as one of the most talented, compelling, creative, and original artists of our… Read Article →
The Biblical Humanities Holy Ingestions: Sacrificial Bodies, Communion, and The Eucharist Wednesday, January 17, 2018 St. Vincent DePaul Parish 1010 West Webster Avenue, Chicago 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Lectures and Performances 9:00 – 9:30 p.m. Wine and cheese reception sponsored by Saint Vincent de Paul Parish A sacrifice and a sacrament, the Eucharist brings together faith and practice in a way that causes us to think about the manner in which a community is constituted by what its members eat and how that ingestion is made possible and understood as something more—understood as a community… Read Article →
Summer Teaching Positions Available: Teach Reading to Students of All Ages This Summer Earn more than $6,000 during the summer. Teachers typically earn between $500 and $800 per week while teaching. Gain over 500 hours of teacher-training and teaching experience with a variety of age groups. Help students of all ages develop their reading skills and ability to become imaginatively absorbed in books. The Institute of Reading Development is seeking candidates for summer 2018 teaching positions. We seek applicants with an undergraduate degree or higher from any discipline. We provide a paid training program and… Read Article →
Call for Proposals and Participation Social Responsibility and Accountability Within Our Discipline(s) 54th Allerton English Articulation Conference April 18-19, 2018 Allerton Park and Retreat Center Monticello, Illinois Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2018 In cooperation with Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming and the statewide Allerton Planning Committee, NIU’s Department of English is pleased to announce the 54th Allerton English Articulation Conference, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 18-19, 2018. The Allerton English Articulation Conference, now in its tenth year of NIU sponsorship, brings together faculty from two- and four-year… Read Article →