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WHEN: June 2 at 8 p.m. until June 3 at 8 p.m. WHERE: DePaul University’s Lincoln Park Campus Student Center, Room 120 2250 N Sheffield Ave. WHO: George Saunders is a New York Times–bestselling author who is known for his collections of short stories. His works include Congratulations, By the Way, Tenth of December, and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. Born in Amarillo, Texas, Saunders grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago. He earned a degree in exploration geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines. After spending time as a geophysicist on the Indonesian island… Read Article →
The DePaul Humanities Center is hosting Foucault and the Legacy of the Prisons Information Group, a symposium and film screening, in Room 115 of Richardson Library on Friday, May 8. According to the Humanities Center, “This workshop is designed to examine the unique nature and history of Le groupe d’information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, known as the GIP) that Foucault created with his partner, the sociologist Daniel Defert, in December of 1970. The workshop will consider consider its legacy for current struggles around incarceration and all the carceral techniques of surveillance, control, and normalization that have historically been associated… Read Article →
The DePaul Humanities Center invites DePaul students and staff to attend The Trials of Job on Thursday, January 22, at 7 p.m. The event features choral performances and a discussion of Job’s suffering in the context of art, music, literature, theology, and politics. A reception will follow at St. Vincent DePaul Parish (1010 West Webster Avenue). The Trials of Job marks the DePaul Humanities Center’s first event of winter quarter 2015 and the second event in CondemNation: Justice, Prison, Punishment, Persecution, its yearlong series on punishment and persecution. For more information, see the Trials of Job event flyer.
Ben Harbert’s Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians October 15, 2014, 6–8 p.m. DePaul Student Center, Room 120 Tonight’s screening and director Q&A is the inaugural event in the DePaul Humanities Center series CondemNation: Justice, Prison, Punishment, Persecution.
On behalf of the graduate faculty in the Department of English, we would like to welcome the fifty students who will begin their master’s studies this warm September. For our friends and students returning to DePaul after a summer of adventure, literature, and stories, we extend a warm greeting and a blank page. We’re very excited to read the new poems, stories, and ideas summer break has inspired. Prof. Ted Anton I’m delighted to fill in for Prof. Michele Morano as Acting Director of the MA program in Writing and Publishing this fall and look… Read Article →
Today in Student News, we’re excited to announce that not one but two current MAWP students will have poems published in After Hours Issue 27, Summer 2013. Congratulations to David Mathews on the publication of his poem “Urban Archer.” And congratulations as well to M.R. Byrd on the publication of his poem, “Athena.” The Summer 2013 issue will be released at the Printers Row Book Fair, June 8-9th; if you’re at the fair, stop by the After Hours table to pick up a copy and check out David and M.R.’s poetry! *** The DePaul Humanities… Read Article →
Chicago Tribune’s annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest, drawing more than 125,000 book lovers and featuring over 250 authors and 150 booksellers, is approaching. Events will run all weekend on June 8th – 9th, 2013. The event’s success relies on over 200 volunteers and the organizers are looking for more help! Benefits of being a Lit Fest Volunteer include free t-shirt, free lunch and rubbing elbows with authors such as Judy Blume, cartoonist Art Spiegelman, celebrity chef Rick Bayless and more. The volunteer application can be found online at: http://trib.in/ZE9azZ. More information about… Read Article →
REMINDER: Registration for Fall Quarter 2013 begins this week. Check Campus Connect to find out your exact registration date and time and to fill your course cart. English Graduate classes are posted on Ex Libris under Autumn 2013, and are being updated with course descriptions from the professors. *** In Student News: Congratulations to MAWP student Lisa Applegate, whose piece, “Heartland Love Story: This Is What Your Government Would Tear Asunder,” was published as the cover story of this week’s Newcity magazine. Lisa originally wrote “Heartland Love Story” for Prof. Ted Anton’s Literature of Fact… Read Article →
Today in Student News, congratulations to MAWP student Raul Palma, whose story “The Roasting Box” recently placed in the top 25 in Glimmer Train’s January 2013 Very Short Fiction contest. Raul, who graduates in June, is also excited to announce that after DePaul, he will be moving on to the Creative Writing PhD program at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he’s received full funding for six years. All of us at the English Department send him our best wishes! *** Next week, April 8th-12th, is Liberal Arts Week at the DePaul Career Center. The Career Center… Read Article →
The DePaul English Department is excited to announce a Call for Papers for the Fourth Annual Spring English Conference. This student-run conference, formerly known as the EGSA Conference, will be held on the afternoon of Friday, May 3rd, 2013 in Arts & Letters Hall. We encourage all DePaul English graduate students to submit their works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, literary studies, and more by April 2nd, 2013. Click over to the Spring Conference page on Ex Libris to get complete guidelines on how to submit your work. You can also browse archives of previous… Read Article →
In Faculty News, congratulations to Prof. Christine Sneed. This week marked the release of Sneed’s debut novel, Little Known Facts. From the official press release: The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature—his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, his colleagues in the film industry—long to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Will are Renn’s grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as less-important extensions of their father. They are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows… Read Article →