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Hi all, Things to come next week on Ex Libris and the Graduate Programs Website: All Winter Quarter course descriptions Spring class schedule 2011-2012 Graduate assistantship applications Posts from MAE and MAWP students Student news Thanks, and keep checking back!
Program: MAE Graduate Assistant Role: tutor in the writing center and assistant to Matthew Pearson in faculty services Accomplishments, Publications: presented at Chicagoland Writing Centers Conference last academic year, Sigma Tau Delta member, Golden Key Honor Society member Favorite Author or Period of Study: Early Modern drama, but I also love several authors outside of that period (of course) such as George Elliot, Flannery O’Connor, T.S. Elliot, and Jessica Powers Plans for the school year: Finish two classes (Structure of Modern English and a Medieval req.) and write my thesis under the guidance of Professor McQuade. I also… Read Article →
Please visit the Newberry Library’s website for more information on this event. From the website… Now in its twenty-fifth year, this seminar brings together interested scholars to read and discuss selected precirculated papers on aspects of Milton studies. Each meeting is conducted by a seminar leader, who delivers a brief presentation and leads a discussion based upon a paper he or she has written. To obtain precirculated papers, see the registration section below. Sponsored by DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Newberry… Read Article →
The applications for a two-year college teaching internship, for Winter/Spring 2011, are due on Friday, October 22, not 23rd. Please email Professor Carolyn Goffman at cgoffman@depaul.edu if you have questions.
Program: MAE Graduate Assistant Role: Tutor, Receptionist, Research Team Leader in the Writing Center Favorite Authors: Chaim Potok, David James Duncan, Oscar Wilde Matthew is a first year student in the M.A.E. program and a Graduate Assistant in the Writing Center. He completed his undergraduate degree in 2007 from Purdue University with majors in English Literature and General Communications. After graduation Matthew joined the Peace Corps and lived for over two years in northwestern Kazakhstan teaching English, learning Russian, and eating horsemeat. He is pleased to have reentered the Western academy and is looking forward… Read Article →
Mark your calendars! DePaul professors and authors will be participating in readings around the city this fall. Don’t miss out on these fabulous opportunities below: TONIGHT: Thursday, September 30 Amina Gautier, a new assistant professor of English, joins author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry) and other writers for a discussion entitled “Ordinary Women: Extraordinary Heroines–A New Paradigm for the Modern Heroine.” Women & Children First Bookstore 5233 N. Clark St. Chicago … Read Article →
Program: MAE Graduate Assistant Role: Writing Center Outreach Team Leader, Writing Center Tutor Accomplishments: First place in American Literature and Film Critical Essay at the 2009 Sigma Tau Delta Conference Favorite Period of Study: Medieval Literature Favorite Genre of Writing: This is a tough one – I really enjoy long fiction, but I also enjoy short non-fiction. Plans for the school year: I’m a part of EGSA, I’m helping organize the Illinois Medieval Association Conference, I will attend the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies in May, 2011, and I will be applying to PhD… Read Article →
Program: MAWP Graduate Assistant Role: Tutor and Webmaster at the Writing Center Accomplishments, Publications: Learning to write CSS and HTML over the summer, most recent publication in 2010 issue of Threshold Favorite Author or Genre of Writing: poetry, but my favorite author is Milan Kundera Plans for the school year: continuing to pursue publication in various fields of study and finishing my degree in June Jessica earned her B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University where she majored in English-writing (specializing in poetry) and minored in History. She enjoys cooking and plans to open a diner upon… Read Article →
Professor Ted Anton’s essay, “Riff,” will appear in a book that just received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, called One Word: Writers on the Words They Love and Loathe, (Sarabande Books, due November 2010). Professor Amina Gautier won the 2010 Flanner O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Read more here: http://ugapress.blogspot.com/2010/08/flannery-oconnor-short-fiction-award.html Professor Rebecca Johns Trissler is anticipating the launch of her new novel, The Countess, published by Crown. She also has a forthcoming story, “Perpetua in Glory,” appearing in the winter 2010-11 issue of Ploughshares.
Rebecca Johns’s first novel, Icebergs, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, The Countess, is forthcoming in October from Crown Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, the Mississippi Review, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Ladies’ Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she is thrilled to join the English Department at DePaul. Rebecca is teaching ENG 484: Feature Writing during the Winter… Read Article →
Our students have been busy this summer and fall! Check out the great accomplishments and publications from current MAE and MAWP students below. Have your own announcements? Email mtranber@depaul.edu to see your accomplishments on Ex Libris! Teaching Internships in Two-Year Colleges The following students are currently doing the 2-Year College Teaching Internships: Heath Black (MAE), Harold Washington College; Steve Bogdaniec (MAWP), Wright College; Erin Carr (WRD), College of Lake County; Jennifer Davis (MAE), College of Lake County; Kevin Lyon (WRD) Wright College; Shabnam Mahmood (MAWP), Wright College; Jennifer McKinney (MAE) College of Lake County. Steve… Read Article →