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REMINDER: Registration for Fall Quarter 2013 begins this week. Check Campus Connect to find out your exact registration date and time and to fill your course cart. English Graduate classes are posted on Ex Libris under Autumn 2013, and are being updated with course descriptions from the professors. *** In Student News: Congratulations to MAWP student Lisa Applegate, whose piece, “Heartland Love Story: This Is What Your Government Would Tear Asunder,” was published as the cover story of this week’s Newcity magazine. Lisa originally wrote “Heartland Love Story” for Prof. Ted Anton’s Literature of Fact… Read Article →
In Alumni News: Jim Kraus (MAW 2008) is pleased to announce the publication of his 22nd book, a novel entitled The Cat That God Sent. It will be released this spring by Abingdon Press. His previous novel with Abingdon, The Dog That Talked to God, spent two months on the CBA Best Seller list. Congratulations, Jim. *** The Department of Visual Arts at Western University in London, Ontario, is pleased to present (Re)Activating Objects: Social Theory and Material Culture, a three-day interdisciplinary graduate conference, and has extended a special invitation to all DePaul graduate students. Taking place… Read Article →
REMINDER: Tomorrow, October 23rd, is the last day to drop a Fall Quarter class. See Campus Connect for more information. *** Purdue University is pleased to invite all interested graduate students, scholars and professionals to submit abstracts for the 13th Annual Graduate Symposium, “Humanities and Social Change: How Literature Impacts Class, Gender and Identity.” The symposium will take place March 1-2, 2013, at Purdue’s West Lafayette, Indiana, campus. This year the Symposium Committee is honored to welcome Dr. Raúl Coronado from the University of Chicago as keynote speaker. With its focus on the influence of… Read Article →
The Chicago Humanities Festival is hosting an upcoming event with Anthony Grafton on the past, present, and future of the book. It will take place on Saturday, March 31 at 2pm at First United Methodist Church (77 West Washington Street). Grafton, a distinguished writer, author, and professor of history at Princeton University, will be giving a lecture entitled, “The Book: Past, Present, and Future,” which the event page describes as: “Many of us love a good cliffhanger, but today we find ourselves in a state of suspense about the book itself. What happens next for the… Read Article →
Believe it or not, tomorrow is the last day of January. Literary-event-wise, it’s going out with a bang with what is sure to be a fascinating reading and reception with author Mahmoud Saeed at the Lincoln Park campus. Luckily, February will be packed with even more great literary events in and around DePaul. Grab your calendars and get ready for these upcoming literary events from the DePaul Visiting Writers Program, the DePaul Humanities Center, the Guild Literary Complex, and more! February 2nd – DEPAUL POETS DePaul’s own Mark Turcotte, Chris Green, David Welch and Kathleen… Read Article →
This Tuesday, join the DePaul Humanities Center in a very special event with one of DePaul’s visiting writers. Iraqi writer Mahmoud Saeed is marking the release of his newest novel in translation, The World Through the Eyes of Angels with readings from his writings and a round table discussion with Saeed and DePaul faculty members Nesreen Akhtarkhavari (Modern Languages), Carolyn Goffman (English), and Michael McIntyre (International Studies). The event will take place Tuesday, January 31st in room 314 of the Student Center. It will begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m., and the reading and… Read Article →
Happy Halloween, everyone! Remember the Guild Literary Complex Prose Awards contest? Well, today we are very excited to announce that current M.A.W.P. student Lisa Applegate has been selected as one of 3 semifinalists for the 2011 Prose Award for Short Non-Fiction. Not only that, but Lisa’s piece is an edited version of one she wrote for Brenda Fowler’s class on writing in Chicago last winter quarter. That means Lisa will be reading her submitted piece at the recognition event, and that she is still in the running to receive this year’s award and cash prize…. Read Article →
DePaul Humanities Center presents Launch Reading and Reception for Brute Neighbors: Urban nature poetry, prose and photography Monday, March 7, 2011 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Lincoln Hall 2424 North Lincoln Avenue THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The book features some of Chicago’s best writers: Reginald Gibbons, Stuart Dybek, Christian Wiman, Miles Harvey, Michele Morano, Mark Turcotte, and more. Come hear these vastly varied voices and unexpected styles that illustrate how our cityscapes and our rolling fields aren’t as separate as we once thought. For more information, please contact the DePaul… Read Article →
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 →
Please join us as Literary Agent Michele Rubin, of Writer’s House in New York, discusses “The Future of the Book” on Tuesday, October 26, 2010. She is the first speaker in the Humanities Center’s second 2010-2011 lectures series: Digital Humanities: The Future of the Book and Other Quandaries. Please see attached flyer and below for details. DIGITAL HUMANITIES The Future of the Book and Other Quandaries Tuesday, October 26, 2010 DePaul Student Center, 314 2250 N. Sheffield Ave. 5:30 reception • 6:00 lecture Michele Rubin Literary Agent, Writer’s House, New York “The Future of… Read Article →
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