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Register Here for the Event Find copies of the books below: Like Love by Michele Morano Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong
Newcity Lit (June 4, 2015) “Lit 50 2015: Who Really Books in Chicago” Newcity Lit, a Web site about Chicago’s culture of writing, just released this year’s Lit 50 list. The list of Chicago’s literary luminaries features DePaul associate professor and MAWP director Michele Morano (#28) and visiting assistant professor Kathleen Rooney (#37). Congratulations!
DePaul associate professor and MAWP director Michele Morano will be reading at Sunday Salon Chicago, a free literary series, on May 31 at 7 p.m. The event will take place in the Roscoe and Damen Room at Riverview Tavern (1958 West Roscoe Street). Other featured readers include Jeffrey Condran, Aviya Kushner, and Jillian Lauren.
Michele Morano, an associate professor and director of the MAWP program here at DePaul, has published “The Afterlife of Travel: On the Work of Philip Graham and Alma Gottlieb” in online literary review The Millions. Christine Sneed, who is teaching at DePaul part-time this year, has published a piece on fact versus fiction in the Chicago Tribune. She cites Michele Morano and DePaul assistant professor Miles Harvey in her essay.
Today in Student News, we are happy to announce that MAWP student and GA Mark Brand will be heading to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Fall 2013 where he’ll will be working on a PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. Mark will be studying with Liam Callanan and Valeria Laken in their fiction-writing faculty and working toward a new novel as a creative dissertation. Congratulations, Mark! Also in Student News, congratulations to Rhiannon Falzone on her most recent publication in ChicagoSide online magazine. Rhiannon’s article, ‘Girls on the Run’ Gets Chicago Kids… 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 →
We’re starting the week off on a high note, with news about publications from two of our faculty members and an invitation to a MAWP gathering. — Prof. Michele Morano‘s essay, “Boy Eats World,” is published in the current issue of the creative nonfiction journal, Fourth Genre. In addition, her essay, “Evenings at the Collegeview Diner,” which appeared last fall in Water~Stone Review, has been named a “Notable Essay” in this year’s Best American Essays anthology. Congratulations to Prof. Morano on these great honors! Kathleen Rooney‘s second single-authored book of poetry, Robinson Alone Provides the… Read Article →