Joe enrolled in the M.A.E. program in the winter of 2009 and is joining the Writing Center this fall as a Graduate Assistant. He earned his B.A. in Sociology with minors in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Loyola University New Orleans in 2006. After graduating from Loyola, he worked as a legal assistant for a non-profit law office in New Orleans. In addition to great literature, Joe’s academic interests include philosophy, economic history, and social theory. Stay tuned for more graduate assistant profiles in this series.
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From the Directors: We’d like to encourage you to attend a special DePaul performance of Edward Albee’s play *At Home at the Zoo* on Friday, October 8th. The Office of Student Life has arranged for a special price for anyone with DePaul ID: $15 includes a ticket to the show and pizza beforehand. The show takes place at the Victory Gardens’ Biograph Theatre (aka the Zacek McVay Theatre) at 2433 Lincoln, a short walk from DePaul. A group of English faculty, students, staff and alumni will be heading to this event together. If you’d like… Read Article →
On behalf of the entire graduate faculty in the Department of English, we would like to welcome the nearly 70 of you who began your master’s studies this month, and to the over 200 students who are returning to DePaul after a summer away from graduate classes. We extend to you a warm “Welcome back!” We send greetings as well from Ms. Jan Hickey, the assistant director of the English department’s two graduate programs. From Prof. John Shanahan: I am delighted to be the new director of the Master of Arts in English program. I… Read Article →
On behalf of the other committee members, I would like to tell you about The English Graduate Student Association. The group was formed in Fall 2009 to bring together English and Writing and Publishing students, enhancing the experience of the students in both programs through social and cultural events in and around Chicago. In the 2009/2010 school year, we went to a production of Faust at the Lyric Opera House in the Fall, participated in a rousing tour of the Art Institute in Winter, watched a minor-league baseball game in the Spring, and took a… Read Article →
Professor David Welch has been on the English Department faculty since 2008, but he is teaching his first graduate class this year. David Welch is a recipient of the Hill-Kohn Prize from the Academy of American Poets and former Poetry Editor of Black Warrior Review. His poems have appeared in journals including AGNI Online, Kenyon Review Online, and Subtropics, as well as the anthologies Best New Poets 2007, Best of the Web 2010, and Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets University & College Prizes, 1999-2008. Look out for more faculty profiles… Read Article →
Sarah is a first-year M.A.E. student and a Graduate Assistant in the Writing Center. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from DePauw University in Greencastle, IN in 2006, where she majored in English Literature. For the past four years, Sarah has been teaching reading and writing in Bronx, New York while also earning her M.A. in education from Hunter College. As an undergrad, she worked as a tutor at DePauw’s writing center and with teacher recruitment and preparation as a Teach for America campus campaign manager. When Sarah is not at the Writing Center or class,… Read Article →
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce: Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010 Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011 www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html PDF flyer printable in color or black-and-white. Please distribute and post. We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious… Read Article →
Dan Stolar read some of his new fiction, entitled “Hymie and Ruth,” on Tuesday May 25, 2010. Josh Covell, an MAWP student, writes his thoughts on the new story. Josh is graduating from the program in June. With a whiteboard of Yiddish translations behind him, Professor Dan Stolar was brave enough to give a reading of his new fiction piece, the as-yet-unpublished “Hymie and Ruth.” From the moment he started to read aloud, it was apparent that he had captured a familiarity and bittersweetness with the titular elderly characters Hymie and Ruth Schoenberg. Hymie, who… Read Article →
Ex Libris, DePaul’s Graduate English Newsletter, is making a move to WordPress and the blogosphere. Stay tuned for more updates as Molly, the graduate assistant, figures all this stuff out. For now, you can find out about events, classes, and news at the old Ex Libris site here. As you can see, our Flickr page is linked here. Look at all the fun conferences and activities students in the MAE and MAWP are involved in!