2010-2011 Graduate Assistantship Applications: In spring the English Department will award a limited number of graduate assistantships for the 2010-2011 academic year. Graduate assistantships carry full tuition for up to eight graduate-level courses taken for credit towards your degree during the 2010-2011 year....More
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Important Deadlines:
Oct 19: Winter Enrollment begins.
Oct 23: Deadline for applications for Two-Year
College Teaching Internships for Spring semester 2010. Read more about the internships here.
Oct 27: Last day to withdraw from a class, last day for a chair or designee to request a substitution or waiver for AQ
Dec 3:
'IN' grades issued Winter 2009 lapse to 'F' grades, 'R' grades issued Autumn 2008 lapse to 'F' grades
Upcoming Events and News:
NCTE National Day on Writing
October 20, 2009 is the National Day on Writing. The NCTE established this celebration to draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing we engage in and help make writers from all walks of life aware of their craft.
NCTE National Gallery of Writing
NCTE has created a National Gallery of Writing in collaboration with the National Day on Writing. Essentially, this is a website on which writers post their writing within "galleries."
Anyone can create a gallery and anyone can submit to the gallery through the "curator" -- usually the person who created the gallery. What kind of writing can be posted? Letters, journal entries, emails, blog posts, reports, e-presentations, photo-essays, how-to directions, short stories, memos, etc.
Margaret Atwood Year of the Flood Special Event
Celebrated author Margaret Atwood will present a 70-minute dramatic reading from her new novel, The Year of the Flood, backed by
a troupe of actors and a choir, on Friday, November 6 at 7:30 pm in DePaul's Merle Reskin Theatre!
A limited number of student tickets are available to DePaul students for $10 each. To order, please call the Merle Reskin Theatre box office at (312) 922-1999 and have a DePaul Student ID# for each ticket ordered (limit four tickets per order). Student tickets will be available for pickup in the English Department office, McGaw 255 on Friday, October 23 after 2:00 pm to Friday, October 30 by 2:00 pm. Student IDs must be presented.
Professor Ted Anton to Give Talk at Newberry Library
Professor Ted Anton will be giving a talk on Friday, Nov. 20 at 3:30 pm at the
Newberry Library. It is part of the Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture, sponsored by the Scholl Foundation.
Homer Representing: The "Funeral Games for Patroclus" as a Cultural
Study of Trash Talk
The funeral games at the close of Homer's Iliad present one of the earliest portrayals of sport in western literature and a vision of the early Oympics. Rather than an Olympian ideal of behavior, though, the games feature incessant boasting, baiting and taunting, in a remarkably contemporary construction of identity through verbal self-inflation. Homer's athletes and fans talk almost nonstop. Their taunts cite personal and tribal history, seek spoils of victory, analyze ethics of behavior, and display dazzling tricks of verbal imagination. Homeric trash talk is as competitive and multi-dimensional as the games themselves. It is a kind of poetry that offers new understanding of both the epic and of athletics today.
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