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Application Deadline: March 16th, 5:00 p.m.
Current students, have you done your Online Teaching Evaluations? You have until midnight tonight, November 13th to (anonymously) tell the DePaul English Faculty how they’re doing. Check your email or Campus Connect for links to your evaluations. *** Wicker Park Press, a ten-year-old independent book publisher in Chicago, has an internship opportunity available for students interested in small/independent presses. Wicker Park Press is looking for energetic self-starters who can help utilize a great website platform and put some creative campaigns and web marketing tools together to promote the company’s books. Site to work is 363… Read Article →
All are encouraged to attend a RESUME AND JOB SEARCH WORKSHOP FOR ENGLISH STUDENTS on Wednesday, May 30th from 5:00-6:00p.m. in Arts & Letters Hall Room 308. The workshop will by run by Ed Childs of the DePaul Career Center. *** Current MAE and MAWP students looking for a summer internship should check their email for six summer internship opportunities available exclusively to DePaul students at this time. *** In These Times has a job opening for a Web Editor. In These Times, a not-for-profit national monthly magazine based in Chicago, seeks an editor to… Read Article →
Welcome back, students and faculty, from what was hopefully a very relaxing spring break! In case you did a little too much relaxing and forgot what was posted on Ex Libris before the break, here are a few reminders of upcoming dates and deadlines. Saturday March 31st-Anthony Grafton will be speaking about the future of the book in downtown Chicago as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Follow the link to learn how to get free tickets. Saturday March 31st- …is also the last day of open submissions to the Barely South Review’s fall issue…. Read Article →
Special update! It has just been confirmed that the guest writers on tomorrow’s DePaul Student Writers Show are English graduate students Bethany Brownholtz and Michael Van Kerckhove. Tune in to hear them read their work on Radio DePaul, radio.depaul.edu, this Friday from 10:00-11:00 a.m. *** Current students, are you interested in an internship at a two-year college or maybe even the Certificate in Teaching English in the Two-Year College? Then mark your calendars for an upcoming information session on Internships at Two-Year Colleges and the Certificate in Teaching English in the Two-Year College. The information… Read Article →
Welcome back and Happy New Year to all our graduate students starting their Winter 2012 classes this week! And a special welcome to all new students starting their English Graduate classes at DePaul for the first time this quarter. Like many of you current students, Ex Libris has accumulated quite a few announcements in our inbox over winter break, so be sure to check in frequently this week so you don’t miss anything, and please be patient if you are waiting for a response from us. As always, if you’re an alum or current student… Read Article →
Two exciting Faculty News updates today: Congratulations are due to Christine Sneed, who has just sold a novel, Little Known Facts, to Bloomsbury. And her short story, “The First Wife,” which appeared in the December2010/January 2011 issue of the New England Review, has been selected for this year’s O. Henry Prize Anthology. Congratulations also to Lesley Kordecki on the publication of her new book, Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds, which analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer’s poetry and interprets his adaptation of medieval genres through an ecofeminist lens. The book is a… Read Article →
Hopefully everyone has taken a few minutes to read the DePaul Magazine article “When the Teacher is an Author” that we posted about on Monday, because today we are happy to post two more exciting accomplishments of the DePaul English Department faculty. It has just been announced that faculty member Jim Fairhall is the 2012 winner of Crab Orchard Review’s John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize for his memoir, “Núi Khê Revisited.” The essay is about his recent trek through a forest in Vietnam in quest of a site of memory, Khê Mountain. “Núi Khê Revisited”… Read Article →
Like it or not, summer is officially over and we’re coming up on the last weekend in September. Not sure how you’re going to spend the weekend yet? Don’t worry, Ex Libris has some suggestions for you! 1.) Work on your Two-Year College Teaching Internship Application Are you working on your Two-Year College Teaching Certificate and interested in an internship at a local two-year college this Spring? The application deadline is October 14. These internships are for Spring SEMESTER, which runs January to mid-May. (The exception to this calendar is Robert Morris University, where an… Read Article →
By MAWP student Tracey Zdravkovic I never thought my mere presence in a classroom could cause a group of second and third grade students to go crazy with joy—especially as an MAWP student—but it is definitely something that I look forward to every week. Every Thursday, I trek to Jahn Elementary School (my alma mater, coincidentally) for Open Books Buddies, where I receive twenty hugs from twenty second and third graders, all dying to be better readers. “You’re very popular here,” their teacher often tells me. We try to hush the students into a low… Read Article →
Sabrina Martin continues her series on applying for teaching positions at two-year colleges. In this installment, she discusses how to apply your part-time work experience to a teaching job. Read her first article, “The Search for Two-Year Teaching Positions.” Now that you’ve started looking for two-year college teaching positions, you might be wondering, “How can I make the most of my part-time experience?” If you’ve never had a full time teaching position, you can still obtain a full time job- you just have to know how to present your experiences. DISCLAIMER: I am in no… Read Article →
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