In the market for a teaching job? Need some advice? Read this post by MAE student Sabrina Martin about her own struggle looking for teaching jobs at two-year colleges. For some newly admitted graduate students, this winter term will be the first in their journey towards their MA here at DePaul. For others, such as myself, it will be a time to juggle thesis research, requirement completion, and the dreaded job search, which will inevitably overtake our every waking moment. If you’re like me, you will sift through hundreds of job postings online, hoping to find… Read Article →
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You are invited to attend the Newberry Center for Renaissance Students 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference to be held January 27-29. Seventy-two graduate students from consortium institutions throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. will present their research during the conference’s eighteen sessions. Two DePaul University Masters in English students, Brianna Tonner and Diana Anderson, will be presenting. Support from their peers and colleagues is appreciated and encouraged. From the website: The Center for Renaissance Studies’ annual graduate student conference, organized and run by advanced doctoral students, has become a premier opportunity for maturing scholars… Read Article →
This guest post by graduate assistant Javaria Afghani explores the current state of the book publishing industry and small, independently-owned bookstores during a night at Women and Children First in Andersonville. She attended a book reading for Professor Christine Sneed, who teaches creative writing in the MAWP program. On November 17th, I attended Christine Sneed’s book release party for Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010) at Women and Children First in Andersonville. Christine, as many of her students call her, is a warm and encouraging… Read Article →
This guest-post is from graduate assistant and MAWP student Andrew McNamara. As associate editor for Poetry East, Andrew has learned a lot about poetry this quarter. Read on to learn more about the journal. Admittedly, I’m no poet. I know Ezra Pound from James Dickey, and like most, I’ve read Maya Angelou. But I’m not intimately familiar with the world of modern poetry, its poets, or the myriad of journals dedicated to the craft. But somehow I find myself working every day, up to my elbows in poetry, and loving it. My renewed (if it… Read Article →
In his monthly series, Matthew Fledderjohann (MAE) discusses his adventures and misadventures teaching English Literature abroad. Read his previous post on Kazakhstan here. This post, written in response to a comment on his previous story, explores Kazakhstan’s response to the movie Borat. I lived in Kazakhstan for twenty-seven months and I never once met Borat Sagdiyev. The closest I ever got to his global celebrity was seeing the pluralization of his name on a sign outside a commerce building in city of Shymkent. “Borats”—posted above an uncertain advertisement depicting an extreme close-up of a high-heeled… Read Article →
You are invited to attend DePaul’s Inaugural Book Tasting, which features DePaul faculty and their recently published books, on December 8th at 6 p.m. Treat yourself to hors d’oeuvres and a wine tasting while you “taste” new books written by DePaul faculty, including English department faculty Achy Obejas and Rebecca Johns Trissler. You must be 21 or older to attend, and an RSVP is required. The event will be held in the University Center Conference Chicago, 525 S. State St. Please visit the DePaul Newsline for more information on this event.
From the DePaul Humanities Center: Please join us as Terry Eagleton, Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, discusses C.P. Snow’s The Two Cultures on Monday, November 8, 2010. Professor Eagleton is the first speaker in the Humanities Center’s 2010-2011 lectures series: Reflections on C.P. Snow’s The Two Cultures: Science and Literature Revisited. Please see attached flyer and below for details. Monday, November 8, 2010 5:30pm Reception 6:00pm Lecture DePaul Student Center, room 120 2250 North Sheffield Avenue This event is free and open to the public. The abstract for Eagleton’s talk:… Read Article →
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 is the National Day on Writing! Started by the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Day on Writing seeks to celebrate the significance of writing in our everyday lives. As stated on their website, the National Day on Writing will: celebrate the foundational place of writing in Americans’ personal, professional, and civic lives. point to the importance of writing instruction and practice at every grade level, for every student and in every subject area from preschool through university. emphasize the lifelong process of learning to write and composing for… Read Article →
Guest-post by graduate assistant and MAE student Matthew Fledderjohann. Interested in learning about the choices involved with joining the Peace Corps? Read on. “English literature, eh? So, uh, what will you do with that exactly?” As I neared the completion of my undergraduate degree, the questions that had confronted my educational aims for the past four years only increased in intensity. “What’s the marketability of that education?” “Can you get a job with that?” “But how will you make rent?” With less than six months before graduation, I had no idea how to answer any… 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 →