It’s January 4th, and only the second day of the quarter, so chances are your brand new calendars are still looking pretty blank. Not for much longer! Today on Ex Libris we have a good long list of deadlines to write down, whether you’re looking for contests, scholarships, publications, or conferences. So get out your calendars, because there’s something for everyone. *** For current seniors or recent graduates of DePaul considering graduate school: the Office of Multicultural Student Success is currently accepting applications for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award which recognizes and… Read Article →
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Welcome back and Happy New Year to all our graduate students starting their Winter 2012 classes this week! And a special welcome to all new students starting their English Graduate classes at DePaul for the first time this quarter. Like many of you current students, Ex Libris has accumulated quite a few announcements in our inbox over winter break, so be sure to check in frequently this week so you don’t miss anything, and please be patient if you are waiting for a response from us. As always, if you’re an alum or current student… Read Article →
Happy Halloween, everyone! Remember the Guild Literary Complex Prose Awards contest? Well, today we are very excited to announce that current M.A.W.P. student Lisa Applegate has been selected as one of 3 semifinalists for the 2011 Prose Award for Short Non-Fiction. Not only that, but Lisa’s piece is an edited version of one she wrote for Brenda Fowler’s class on writing in Chicago last winter quarter. That means Lisa will be reading her submitted piece at the recognition event, and that she is still in the running to receive this year’s award and cash prize…. Read Article →
Happy Friday! Congratulations to current M.A.W.P. student Zhanna Vaynberg, for getting a story published in the upcoming Fall issue of Euphony Journal, and for receiving an honorable mention in Glimmer Train‘s August 2011 Short Story Award for New Writers for another story of hers, “Things You Should Never Tell Your Mother.” — The DePaul Can: University-Wide Food Drive will take place Nov. 7th through Nov. 11th. DePaul Can is a student-led initiative uniting the DePaul community in the fight against hunger, bringing together students, faculty and staff in a Vincentian way. Last spring, DePaul Can… Read Article →
Happy National Day on Writing, everyone! How are you celebrating writing today? Perhaps by catching the Essay Fiesta performance coming up in the student center? And have you been checking Winter 2012 for course descriptions? We’re right in the middle of registration week and almost all of them are up. Best of luck to everyone registering for classes. — Grad Students: If you ever have an issue you would like to bring to the DePaul Student Government Association (SGA), Morgan Taylor is your representative on the 2011-2012 SGA Senate. Morgan Taylor is the Senator for… Read Article →
Just a handful of announcements and reminders for today: Grad students: are you ready to begin enrolling in Winter 2012 courses? Enrollment appointments will take place throughout the coming week, so check your Campus Connect account if you haven’t already. If you’re still deciding on classes and you’re curious about course descriptions, check Ex Libris frequently, because professors and sending them in, and we’re posting them here as we get them. — The Chicago Humanities Festival has three internship opportunities available for January-May 2012. The application deadline is Nov. 15. Details can be found on… Read Article →
Threshold is DePaul’s award-winning, all-student journal of literature and art, and they need your help to make this year’s issue happen! Threshold is soliciting applications for editors for the 2012 issue. If you are interested in getting involved, please write a 1-2 page application letter describing your relevant experience and commitment, as well as your vision for the magazine, and place it in faculty adviser Prof. Dan Stolar’s mailbox in McGaw 255 by Wednesday, Oct. 12th. If you are interested in working with the magazine, but not necessarily taking on the commitment of being co-editor,… Read Article →
Hopefully everyone has taken a few minutes to read the DePaul Magazine article “When the Teacher is an Author” that we posted about on Monday, because today we are happy to post two more exciting accomplishments of the DePaul English Department faculty. It has just been announced that faculty member Jim Fairhall is the 2012 winner of Crab Orchard Review’s John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize for his memoir, “Núi Khê Revisited.” The essay is about his recent trek through a forest in Vietnam in quest of a site of memory, Khê Mountain. “Núi Khê Revisited”… Read Article →
For Immediate Release Contact: David Duhr Fiction Editor, Texas Observer Duhr@TexasObserver.org 617.899.1706 Larry McMurtry to Judge Texas Observer Short Story Prize (Austin, TX) – The Texas Observer has always loved a good story, but the ones they’ve published over the last half-century—mostly hard-hitting investigative pieces—have been depressingly true. The venerable publication is looking to change that by launching its first annual short story contest, to be judged by Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show). The winner will receive $1,000 and publication in the Observer’s 2011 Summer Books Issue. No genre,… Read Article →
For over 30 years, Transitions Abroad magazine has been the only publication dedicated to work, study, living, and cultural immersion travel abroad. Its purpose is the dissemination of practical information leading to a greater understanding of other cultures through direct participation in the daily life of the host community. In our mission to expand upon our pioneering publications and remain the most comprehensive Web portal and webzine for work, study, travel, and living abroad, we are currently soliciting submissions for annual Student Writing Contest focusing on study abroad and experiential student learning abroad. The following… Read Article →
Absurdity and the Everyday University of Washington Seattle, Washington May 17-18, 2011 The University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference invites papers for its 2011 session: “Absurdity and the Everyday.” Given Jonathan Lee’s recent documentary on Paul Goodman and his nearly forgotten work Growing Up Absurd, we might consider the relevance of absurdity today. “Growing up absurd” serves well as an alternative way to think of this year’s theme (a phrase Arthur Danto borrowed to describe the late sculptor Eva Hesse): Does the age of reproducibility and the technology revolution leave room for the absurd,… Read Article →
CALL FOR PAPERS CULTURE & IDENTITY 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures’ Graduate Student Committee at Purdue University Saturday, March 5, 2011 We welcome submissions in all areas of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences including, but not limited to, foreign languages and literatures, English, creative writing, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, the visual arts, theater, music, philosophy and history. Proceedings from the symposium will be published in an online format. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Thomas Turino is a Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Illinois… Read Article →