Faculty News: One of the duties of Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein is to feature outstanding Illinois poets in order to “highlight the poetic legacy of Illinois and showcase the bevy of fine poets currently writing within the state.” We are pleased to announce that Stein’s most recently selected Featured Illinois Poet is DePaul’s own…Continue reading Mark Turcotte Selected for Featured Illinois Poet & This Week’s Reminders
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Faculty News, A Short Fiction Contest, and More
Faculty News: The PEN/ O.Henry Prize Stories 2012 Anthology has just hit the shelves, and DePaul English grad students will recognize a familiar name in the list of prize winners. Congratulations to Professor Christine Sneed, whose short story “The First Wife” is among those stories selected for inclusion. Prof. Sneed’s story will appear alongside other…Continue reading Faculty News, A Short Fiction Contest, and More
Faculty News: Humanities Center Faculty Fellows
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…Continue reading Faculty News: Humanities Center Faculty Fellows
DePaul MAWP at the AWP Conference
Ten thousand people are registered for the sold-out Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference this weekend right here in Chicago. If you’re lucky enough to count yourself among them, stop by the DePaul Masters in Writing and Publishing Program table at the book fair to say hi! It’ll be located in the lower level of…Continue reading DePaul MAWP at the AWP Conference
Faculty News and a Short Story Award for New Writers
Congratulations to two of our DePaul English faculty for their recent accomplishments! Prof. Hannah Pittard’s short story, “Orion’s Belt,” was read as the opening selection at the Selected Shorts event last week at Symphony Space in New York City. The story is one of thirteen commissioned from “emerging writers” to open the Symphony Space events…Continue reading Faculty News and a Short Story Award for New Writers
Spotlight on: Christine Sneed
If you’ve been diligently reading the faculty news bits in Ex Libris this quarter, you’ve probably noticed Christine Sneed’s name come up more than once. Which is why when we received yet another exciting piece of news about her award-winning first book, we decided it was high time to turn the Ex Libris spotlight on…Continue reading Spotlight on: Christine Sneed
Faculty News, Radio DePaul, and More
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…Continue reading Faculty News, Radio DePaul, and More
Essay Fiesta, Turcotte Reading, and a PhD Program
Did you know that this Thursday, Oct. 20 is the National Day on Writing? The National Day on Writing, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, honors the significance of writing in our lives and draws attention to the remarkable variety of writing that we engage in. NDW emphasizes the lifelong process of…Continue reading Essay Fiesta, Turcotte Reading, and a PhD Program
Spotlight on Amina Gautier
In anticipation of the release of her new book, At-Risk, and the book-release party taking place on campus this coming Monday, we would like to take this time to turn the Ex Libris spotlight on DePaul’s own Prof. Amina Gautier. Praise for At-Risk, winner of the Flannery O’Connor award for Short Fiction: “In this wonderful…Continue reading Spotlight on Amina Gautier
Faculty News and MAWP Meet & Greet
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…Continue reading Faculty News and MAWP Meet & Greet
Faculty News, an Internship Opportunity, and a Call for Papers
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…Continue reading Faculty News, an Internship Opportunity, and a Call for Papers
A Writing Contest, a Job Fair, and Four Faculty Writers
While going through Ex Libris announcements this afternoon, it occurred to Jan Hickey and me that were someone so inclined, one could easily attend a writerly event almost every single day in October. It’s just a good time to be an English Graduate student! Check back frequently for events, writing contests, and other news as…Continue reading A Writing Contest, a Job Fair, and Four Faculty Writers