Kenny Wassus, a MAWP grad and former BSB student worker, is now at the Wall Street Journal as a senior video journalist covering tech video. He has a pitch in for his first written piece, so stay tuned for when it might be in print! Wassus has also worked for New York Magazine, and you…Continue reading Alumni Shoutout!
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Congrats to Chris Green!
Chris Green worked with 99 other Chicago poets to write one collaborative poem addressing gun violence, speaking to its victims and their loved ones. Watch the full book trailer here. Listen to Chris on Fox32Chicago, WBEZ’s Reset, WGN, and WBBM Newsradio. Read more about the poem’s pantoum form in this interview with Hypertext Magazine, and…Continue reading Congrats to Chris Green!
Kathleen Rooney’s recent article about Alice Duer Miller
In her article for The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Rooney discusses the question in Alice Duer Miller’s book Are Women People?, a title that became a suffragist catchphrase. Read the article here.
Kathleen Rooney: How Fiction Allows Us to Inhabit Animal Consciousness
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Kathleen Rooney discusses her novel “Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey”
Hear our very own Kathleen Rooney talk about her new novel with Rick Kogan at WGN Radio here. Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey was published in August 2020.
Professor Ted Anton Zoom Talk
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Fall Quarter 2020: Important Dates
Fall quarter begins: Wednesday, September 9th Last date to drop courses with no penalty: Tuesday, September 22nd Deadline to submit Fall 2020 conferral: October 1st Last date to withdraw: Tuesday, October 27th Fall quarter ends: Tuesday, November 24th
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Watch the Spring English Conference Panels!
If you weren’t able to join us last Friday for the 11th Annual Spring English Conference, you can now find all of the recorded panels here on the conference website.
Deadline Extended: Study Abroad in London and Dublin
The London and Dublin: Travel, Heritage, and History program during December Intersession examines the heritage, public history and travel narratives of both cities. These two cities are irrevocably entwined historically, in material culture and in public memory. This continued connection can still be seen today in the difficulty of constructing BREXIT and the ongoing connections between…Continue reading Deadline Extended: Study Abroad in London and Dublin
The First Issue of Tellus is Now Live!
TellUs, the multilingual and multicultural e-magazine from the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR), a program within the University Center for Writing-based Learning, is now LIVE. Find their first issue here.
At Home with Literati series: Professor Miles Harvey in Conversation with authors Donovan Hohn and Eileen Pollack.
Professor Miles Harvey will be discussing his new book, The King of Confidence, on June 3rd at 7 p.m. alongside authors Donovan Hohn and Eileen Pollack as part of the At Home with Literati Series with Literati Bookstore. Find more info about the At Home Literati series and the Zoom event here.