Congratulations to our very own Kathleen Rooney, who has received a Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Grant from the City of Chicago! The grant will support Kathleen’s visit to the Margaret Herrick Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library in Los Angeles to research a novel when it is safe to travel…Continue reading Congrats to Kathleen Rooney!

One of our very own, Kathleen Rooney, was published in the Chicago Tribune this past week. If you’re looking to order books and support local businesses, you can find the article here.

Congrats to DePaul English Professor Miles Harvey on his new and upcoming book, THE KING OF CONFIDENCE, which will be published May 12 by Little, Brown & Company!   THE KING OF CONFIDENCE has been receiving a wonderful early response. National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick calls it a “masterpiece”; Pulitzer Prize-finalist Dave Eggers describes it as a “ludicrously…Continue reading Congrats to Miles Harvey!

Congrats to DePaul English professor Sarah Fay! Longreads just published her very timely essay, “On Solitude (and Isolation and Loneliness [and Brackets]).” Click on the essay title to read Dr. Fay’s reflection on four years spent in solitude (and isolation [and loneliness]), viewing it through the lens of punctuation.

Read all about Professor Kathleen Rooney’s Poems While You Wait initiative at the Chicago Reader: “Submarine kangaroos and space pirate birthday parties.”  

One of DePaul’s very own English professors and editor of Poetry East, Richard Jones, has had a piece selected for poem of the week in Narrative magazine! Read the poem, “Double Doors” here.

Congrats to Professor Kathleen Rooney, who is the recipient a Louise de Merrilac Woman of Spirit and Action Award from DePaul!

Congrats to Paula McQuade, who was interviewed last week by Crawford Gribbens, Professor of History at Queens University Belfast! The pair discussed Professor McQuade’s book, women’s writing, and early modern religion.  The podcast is now up and available at the New Books Network. Find a copy of  Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press,…Continue reading Congratulations to Paula McQuade!