All are invited to an Open Mic Poetry Night hosted by MAWP students Meredith Boe and Maria Hlohowskyj this Thursday, May 30th, at the Bourgeois Pig Cafe, 738 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, from 8:00-10:00 p.m. If you are interested in reading, arrive a few minutes early to sign up, and have a short poetry selection prepared. Fiction and nonfiction are also welcome, as long as selections are under five minutes long. For more details, you can join the Facebook event at facebook.com/events/327394267388656. *** Triumph Books, the country’s leading sports book publisher, seeks an ultra-organized, proactive… Read Article →
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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 →
Each year the DePaul Humanities Center selects a few DePaul faculty members to receive a Faculty Fellowship, and this year the English Department is very happy to announce that the six Faculty Fellows selected for 2012-2013 include two of our own faculty: James Murphy and Michele Morano. As faculty fellows, Murphy and Morano will each be researching and presenting a project. We’ve asked them both to share a little about their research, and here it is in their own words. From Prof. James Murphy, on his project, “The Dublin Quartet: A Cultural, Intellectual, and Literary… Read Article →