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Happy New Year! If you are planning to apply for a Graduate Assistantship in 2021-22, please use the link below to our Scholarship Connect website. Applications are due by January 31st for new and continuing students. https://depaul.academicworks.com/opportunities/35267. For any questions, please contact Professor June Chung for the MALP at jchung10@depaul.edu or Professor Rebecca Johns-Trissler for the MAWP/MFA at Rebecca.johns@depaul.edu.
The Academic Success Center in DePaul’s College of Education has an opening for a partial graduate assistantship this spring, which will continue as a full graduate assistantship next year. For the partial graduate assistantship, the student will work 10 hours a week and receive a tuition waiver for one course. The 2015–2016 full graduate assistantship will entail working 20 hours a week in exchange for a $6,000 annual stipend and tuition waivers for two courses. Download the Word doc with the graduate assistantship description here.
Name: James Neisen Program: MAE Graduate Assistantship: James works as a GA in the Writing Center. Fun fact: Before coming to DePaul to pursue a master’s degree in English, James earned an MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. *** The deadline to apply for 2015–2016 graduate assistantships is Friday, January 23.
Name: Kate O’Brien Bio: I am a second-year graduate student in the Master’s of Writing and Publishing program here at DePaul. I am primarily a fiction writer, but I also write for the web and enjoy writing in a variety of genres. I spent the three years between graduating from undergrad and beginning grad school teaching English abroad. I spent two years in Colombia and a year in France and did some traveling in between, and I am happy to work with writers on any piece of writing in English, Spanish, or French. Graduate Assistantship Description: I… Read Article →
Current and prospective MAE and MAWP students can apply for a graduate assistantship through Friday, January 23.
Name: Josh Fisher Program: MAWP Graduate Assistantship: Josh is the graduate assistant/associate editor for Poetry East, where he developed a Poetry East app called The Poet’s Almanac. The Poet’s Almanac is available as a free download in the Apple App Store and Google Play. Fun fact: Josh was the GA for Ex Libris last year. A poet with considerable web design skills and an eye for beauty, he built this site from scratch and fielded many questions from the current editor (me) last quarter. *** The deadline to apply for 2015–2016 graduate assistantships is January 15, 2015.
Name: Rachel Pomeroy Program: MAWP Graduate Assistantship Description: As a Graduate Assistant, I work at DePaul’s University Center for Writing-based Learning as both a Peer Writing Tutor and the Social Media Team Leader. My role as a tutor involves working with writers of all levels of experience and at all stages of the writing process, which is a fun and rewarding experience. I have several years of previous tutoring experience, yet I continue to grow as both a tutor and writer through my work at the UCWbL every day. As the Social Media Team Leader, I… Read Article →
DePaul English Graduate students had a very productive winter break– we received announcements from the following students about their recent awards and publications. Are you a student or graduate with news to share about an award, publication, job, or other accomplishment related to your degree? Email Maria at mhlohows@depaul.edu to be featured in Ex Libris’s Student & Alumni News. Congratulations to Bethany Brownholtz (M.A.W.P. ’12) on getting a poem published in the December 2012 edition of Broad Magazine, the online publication of Loyola University Chicago’s Women’s Studies & Gender Studies department. Bethany’s poem, entitled “What it’s… Read Article →