Hi all, Things to come next week on Ex Libris and the Graduate Programs Website: All Winter Quarter course descriptions Spring class schedule 2011-2012 Graduate assistantship applications Posts from MAE and MAWP students Student news Thanks, and keep checking back!
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Meet the GAs: Katie Wesolek
Program: MAE Graduate Assistant Role: tutor in the writing center and assistant to Matthew Pearson in faculty services Accomplishments, Publications: presented at Chicagoland Writing Centers Conference last academic year, Sigma Tau Delta member, Golden Key Honor Society member Favorite Author or Period of Study: Early Modern drama, but I also love several authors outside of that period (of…Continue reading Meet the GAs: Katie Wesolek
Newberry Library Milton Seminar
Please visit the Newberry Library’s website for more information on this event. From the website… Now in its twenty-fifth year, this seminar brings together interested scholars to read and discuss selected precirculated papers on aspects of Milton studies. Each meeting is conducted by a seminar leader, who delivers a brief presentation and leads a discussion…Continue reading Newberry Library Milton Seminar
Two-Year College Teaching Internship Applications Due Date Change
The applications for a two-year college teaching internship, for Winter/Spring 2011, are due on Friday, October 22, not 23rd. Please email Professor Carolyn Goffman at cgoffman@depaul.edu if you have questions.
Meet the GAs: Matthew Fledderjohann
Program: MAE Graduate Assistant Role: Tutor, Receptionist, Research Team Leader in the Writing Center Favorite Authors: Chaim Potok, David James Duncan, Oscar Wilde Matthew is a first year student in the M.A.E. program and a Graduate Assistant in the Writing Center. He completed his undergraduate degree in 2007 from Purdue University with majors in English…Continue reading Meet the GAs: Matthew Fledderjohann
Upcoming DePaul Author Events
Mark your calendars! DePaul professors and authors will be participating in readings around the city this fall. Don’t miss out on these fabulous opportunities below: TONIGHT: Thursday, September 30 Amina Gautier, a new assistant professor of English, joins author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry) and other writers for a discussion entitled…Continue reading Upcoming DePaul Author Events
Meet the GAs: Kim Anderson
Program: MAE Graduate Assistant Role: Writing Center Outreach Team Leader, Writing Center Tutor Accomplishments: First place in American Literature and Film Critical Essay at the 2009 Sigma Tau Delta Conference Favorite Period of Study: Medieval Literature Favorite Genre of Writing: This is a tough one – I really enjoy long fiction, but I also enjoy…Continue reading Meet the GAs: Kim Anderson
Meet the GAs: Jessica Block
Program: MAWP Graduate Assistant Role: Tutor and Webmaster at the Writing Center Accomplishments, Publications: Learning to write CSS and HTML over the summer, most recent publication in 2010 issue of Threshold Favorite Author or Genre of Writing: poetry, but my favorite author is Milan Kundera Plans for the school year: continuing to pursue publication in…Continue reading Meet the GAs: Jessica Block
What We Missed: Faculty News
Professor Ted Anton’s essay, “Riff,” will appear in a book that just received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, called One Word: Writers on the Words They Love and Loathe, (Sarabande Books, due November 2010). Professor Amina Gautier won the 2010 Flanner O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Read more here: http://ugapress.blogspot.com/2010/08/flannery-oconnor-short-fiction-award.html Professor Rebecca Johns Trissler…Continue reading What We Missed: Faculty News
Meet the New Faculty: Rebecca Johns Trissler
Rebecca Johns’s first novel, Icebergs, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, The Countess, is forthcoming in October from Crown Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, the Mississippi Review, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle,…Continue reading Meet the New Faculty: Rebecca Johns Trissler
What We Missed: Student News
Our students have been busy this summer and fall! Check out the great accomplishments and publications from current MAE and MAWP students below. Have your own announcements? Email mtranber@depaul.edu to see your accomplishments on Ex Libris! Teaching Internships in Two-Year Colleges The following students are currently doing the 2-Year College Teaching Internships: Heath Black (MAE),…Continue reading What We Missed: Student News
Meet the GAs: Joe Olivier
Joe enrolled in the M.A.E. program in the winter of 2009 and is joining the Writing Center this fall as a Graduate Assistant. He earned his B.A. in Sociology with minors in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Loyola University New Orleans in 2006. After graduating from Loyola, he worked as a legal assistant for…Continue reading Meet the GAs: Joe Olivier