Today we bring you a very special guest post from Zhanna Vaynberg, a second-year M.A.W.P. student. You may recognize Zhanna’s name from several Student News spots on Ex Libris because she’s gotten a few pieces published this past year. Now she’s here to tell us what she’s learned from these first forays into the wide world of publishing. Oh, and she just got another poem published in After Hours journal. Congratulations, Zhanna, and thanks. *** During much of January, I spent quite a bit of time moaning to my professors about a short story of… Read Article →
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Today we are happy to announce the 3rd Annual English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) Spring Conference and its call for papers. This isn’t your ordinary conference announcement and call for papers; the EGSA Spring Conference is held each year at DePaul, organized by DePaul English graduate students involved in EGSA, and features DePaul students as panelists and presenters. Read the following announcement from EGSA to get all the details: EGSA is pleased to announce its third spring student conference, to be held in the late afternoon and early evening of April 13th at the Arts… Read Article →
Join us this THURSDAY, JANUARY 26 at 6 p.m., for a reading by DePaul’s own Professor Hannah Pittard at the DePaul University Bookstore at 1 East Jackson in the Loop. Prof. Pittard wrote the critically acclaimed novel, The Fates Will Find Their Way. She is also the winner of the 2006 Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, the recipient of a 2012 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a consulting editor for Narrative Magazine. This event is free and open to the public. *** The American Studies Program at Purdue University announces its 37th annual Symposium to be… Read Article →
If you’re a returning MAE or MAWP student, you might have been thinking, I wonder what happened to E.G.S.A. If you’re new to the program, you’re probably thinking, What in the world is E.G.S.A.? In either case, Ex Libris has the answers. The English Graduate Student Association (E.G.S.A.) brings together students in the Master of Arts in English and Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing graduate programs, seeking to enhance the experience of the students in both programs through social and cultural events in and around Chicago. Check out E.G.S.A.’s Ex Libris page for information… Read Article →
By MAWP student Steve Bogdaniec I was one of the organizers of the 2011 EGSA Conference, held on April 15, 2011, and I’ve been asked to say a few words about it. This was the second annual conference, and it was bigger than last year. We had thirty-seven total participants, grads and undergrads, reading pieces in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and literary criticism and theory. Many presented twice, as I did (poetry and nonfiction). The EGSA was honored to cap the event off with keynote speaker Hannah Pittard, a DePaul professor in the Department of English… Read Article →
Twenty-two M.A.E. and M.A.W.P. students will present at the upcoming EGSA Spring Conference on Friday, April 15, 2011. Organized by Kimberly Anderson (M.A.E.), Steve Bogdaniec (M.A.W.P.), Heath Black (M.A.E.), Christopher Smith (M.A.W.P.), Brianna Tonner (M.A.W.P), and Angel Woods (M.A.W.P.), the conference features twelve panels of student presenters and a keynote address by Professor Hannah Pittard, author of The Fates Will Find Their Way. Please join the English Department in congratulating the graduate student presenters, listed below: Angela Ames (M.A.W.P.) Kimberly Anderson (M.A.E.) Steve Bogdaniec (M.A.W.P.) Katelyn Cunningham (M.A.E.) Jennifer Finstrom (M.A.W.P.) Amanda Fowler (M.A.W.P.) Trudie Gauerke… Read Article →
Absurdity and the Everyday University of Washington Seattle, Washington May 17-18, 2011 The University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference invites papers for its 2011 session: “Absurdity and the Everyday.” Given Jonathan Lee’s recent documentary on Paul Goodman and his nearly forgotten work Growing Up Absurd, we might consider the relevance of absurdity today. “Growing up absurd” serves well as an alternative way to think of this year’s theme (a phrase Arthur Danto borrowed to describe the late sculptor Eva Hesse): Does the age of reproducibility and the technology revolution leave room for the absurd,… Read Article →