Posts Tagged: depaul
MAWP student Stephanie Crets now writes for Time Out Chicago. You can read a recent article “Go Time,” on the Time Out Chicago: Kids website. Congratulations, Stephanie! Have your own announcements? Email mtranber@depaul.edu to see your accomplishments on Ex Libris!
You are invited to attend the 18th annual philosophy graduate student conference on April 9th, 2011. The conference, “Urban Nature and the Praxis of Denaturalization,” will be held in the DePaul Student Center, Room 220 (2250 N. Clifton, Chicago 60614) from 9am-6pm. The scope of this conference makes it of interest not only to philosophers, but also those working in environmental studies, urban studies, geography, political science, anthropology, sociology, English, literature, and other fields. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Timothy Morton, of the University of California at Davis. Author of Ecology Without Nature and… Read Article →
Thursday, April 14, 2011 Master Class with William Lychack 3:30-5 pm Location (on Lincoln Park campus) TBA Reading by William Lychack 6 pm Richardson Library, room 400 2350 N. Kenmore Free & open to the public The MAWP is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for graduate students to work with visiting writer William Lychack, author of The Architect of Flowers, a new short-story collection that novelist Charles Baxter describes as “an amazing accomplishment, very complex and exceptionally beautiful.” In addition to reading from his work on the evening of April 14, Lychack has agreed… Read Article →
Christopher Walsh graduated from the MAWP in 2009 and then spent nearly a year living in China and teaching English. Here are his reflections on that experience. Confucius once said, “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” Now, Confucius said a lot of things, and if you happen to go to China, there will be no shortage of people who can recite something the great sage uttered. I like this quote though, because it describes the best attitude you can have when choosing to live in a foreign country. Be heartened: China wants you…. Read Article →
By MAWP student Tracey Zdravkovic I never thought my mere presence in a classroom could cause a group of second and third grade students to go crazy with joy—especially as an MAWP student—but it is definitely something that I look forward to every week. Every Thursday, I trek to Jahn Elementary School (my alma mater, coincidentally) for Open Books Buddies, where I receive twenty hugs from twenty second and third graders, all dying to be better readers. “You’re very popular here,” their teacher often tells me. We try to hush the students into a low… Read Article →
DePaul Humanities Center presents Launch Reading and Reception for Brute Neighbors: Urban nature poetry, prose and photography Monday, March 7, 2011 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Lincoln Hall 2424 North Lincoln Avenue THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The book features some of Chicago’s best writers: Reginald Gibbons, Stuart Dybek, Christian Wiman, Miles Harvey, Michele Morano, Mark Turcotte, and more. Come hear these vastly varied voices and unexpected styles that illustrate how our cityscapes and our rolling fields aren’t as separate as we once thought. For more information, please contact the DePaul… Read Article →
By MAWP student Brittany Petersen Read the first part of this topic in Brittany’s previous post: “The Girl and the Romance Novel, Part One.” As I’ve discussed in my previous post, the romance genre has a simple formula that doesn’t necessarily include sex or an unflattering portrayal of women: An authentic love story (or at least lust story) with a happy ending. That’s all we ask. Even if people are cool with the sex scenes and the perceived portrayal of women, the happy ending bit might still give pause, and for that we blame Aristotle…. Read Article →
By MAE student Jonathan Kittl On Thursday, February 17, 2011 at the John T. Richardson Library, Professor James H. Murphy presented his newly published book, Irish Novelists & the Victorian Age. Professor Murphy started the evening with a brief explanation concerning his process in constructing this new work. Professor Murphy includes references to well over 200 Irish novelists. During the evening Professor Murphy noted several Victorian Irish authors are frequently passed over in favor of other “big name” writers whose work might be interpreted as relevant to or representative of Ireland. One of the examples… Read Article →
By MAWP student Brittany Petersen As we finish up the chocolates, watch the balloons deflate and lay Valentine’s Day 2011 to bed, it seems appropriate to turn back to the source from which we as English students and authors get our romantic fix the other 364 days of the year: romance literature. Wait—you do read romance novels, right? The romance genre is an easy target for criticism (we’ll get to that), and yet it’s one of the most profitable of the fiction categories: In 2008, out of more than 47,000 fiction books published in the… Read Article →
Congratulations to Professor Jim Fairhall Winner, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Fiction Contest Professor Fairhall will read from his winning story, “Pink,” at the 25th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Sunday, March 27. For more information on the contest and the festival, see http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/ Professor James H. Murphy Professor Murphy will celebrate his new book, Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age, with a reading and reception at DePaul’ s Richardson Library. (see below for details) Professor John Shanahan (DePaul Humanities Fellow) and Professor June Chung Professor Shanahan will lead a discussion of the changing relations of… Read Article →