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NEWS!
NEWS! NEWS!
It's
a Busy Time in the English Department
- Keep Reading to Find out all of
the Important Up and Coming News
and Events!
University
Writing Centers Awards for Scholarship
in Writing and Literature
The DePaul
University Writing Centers
is pleased to sponsor two awards
for previously unpublished critical/scholarly
writing, one to a student in the
MAE program and one to a student
in the MAW program.
If you are currently enrolled in
either the MAE or MAW and have a
paper you are especially proud of
that you have written for a class,
conference, or other academic forum,
please consider submitting.
Papers will be reviewed by a student
panel, which will select finalists.
Winners will be chosen from among
the finalists by a faculty panel.
To submit, please
place the following in the Writing
Center mailbox (in McGaw 255)
by 5:00 pm on Monday, April
11:
• a cover
letter listing your name, which
program you are in, contact information
(phone number and email), and title
of your paper.
• three anonymous
copies of your paper.
The awards will be presented at
the departmental awards ceremony
near the end of Spring Quarter.
The
Spring
MAE Exam
will take place April 2nd,
2005. The location has
been changed to McGaw 145 and McGaw
312A (the foreign language lab).
We'll meet in the McGaw lobby at
8:45 and divide up into two groups
for the exam.
The Afternoon question will be
e-mailed to all confirmed exam-takers
on Saturday, March 26th at noon.
If you have not yet registered for
the exam or have changed your e-mail
address since you registered, please
contact Jan
Flood as soon as possible.
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Display
Your Portfolio
Gain valuable
feedback on your video, web
design, photography, music,
advertising, art, journalism,
creative writing, game reels,
still and/or graphic design
portfolio at the:
Multimedia Showcase
Tuesday, May 24th
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Student Center, Multipurpose
Room, Lincoln Park Campus
2250 N. Sheffield, Chicago
All
majors and levels of experience
are encouraged to participate!
Event
Details
Student check-in and set-up
is between 12:00 and 12:30
pm on the day of the event.
You will be assigned a table
to display your work.
Professional reviewers will
circulate from table to table
starting at 1:00 pm and will
spend approximately 10-15
minutes per student providing
comments and advice.
The event will be open to
the DePaul community, giving
other students, faculty, and
staff the opportunity to observe
and review your work.
To
Participate
To register, you must fill
out a participation form describing
your work. Participation Forms
should be picked up and turned
in to the Career Center.
Registration
begins on March 28. Space
is limited and assigned on
a first come basis first serve
basis, so don’t delay!
You should
receive a confirmation within
three business days of handing
in the form. If you do not
get confirmation, please contact
the Career Center.
Questions?
Please contact:
Aisha
Ghori, Assistant Director,
at (312) 362-5874
Ed
Childs, Assistant Director,
at (773) 325-4339
Sarah
Laggos, Networking Intern,
at (312) 362-5042
TEACHERS
-
You Can Nominate
Your Own Students!
Nominate up to three (3) students
to display their digital,
fine art, print, and/or film
portfolio at the Career Center's
Multimedia Showcase. Professionals
and members of the DePaul
Community will be on hand
to review and comment on the
students' work.
LEARN
MORE
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Announcing
the arrival of the first issue of
Hortulus,
a new online journal of medieval
studies written and published by
graduate students.
The
premiere edition features articles
on iconic art and religious theory,
music in the Purgatorio, and feminine
autonomy in Chaucer; it also incorporates
lighter fare under the aegis of
Hortus Amoenus, a section featuring
a variety of articles from Gregorian
chant to arms and armor.
From
the very beginning, it has been
our intention not only that Hortulus
would showcase the very best in
graduate-student writing but also
that the journal would bring graduate
medievalists into conversation with
one another and with the field as
a whole. To that end, the Hortilus
website
includes a host of interactive
elements, including moderated message
boards and opportunities for readers
to respond to individual articles.
Please feel free to join what we
hope will be a vibrant and growing
conversation. If you are a graduate
student, please also consider contributing
an article to a future issue; otherwise,
we hope that you will encourage
your students to explore our journal
as a possible venue for their publications.
Our second issue will appear in
June 2005.
It
is our privilege to thank the individuals
and organizations whose support
has in one way or another made it
possible for us to begin publication.
We are especially grateful to the
Graduate Student Organization of
Rutgers University; to Dr Richard
Emmerson and his colleagues at the
Medieval Academy of America; to
the organizers of the Vagantes graduate-student
conference; to Christopher Cevasco
and Paradox; and to all our contributors.
NEW
TO EXLIBRIS:
FEATURED COURSE
ENG
409: "Topics in Language,
Rhetoric, and Writing: Text
and Image"
Professor Roger Graves,
Wednesday, 5:45-9:00, Lincoln
Park Campus
In this era
of video gaming, personal
and professional webpages,
and e-books, how do words
and and images function together
to convey and shape meanings?
Readers today experience texts
in inextricable conjunction
with pictures, and true literacy
requires that we understand
how these relationships seek
to persuade, to teach, and
to entertain.
This class
meets in the Digital Media
Center on the 5th floor of
SAC. The center is open outside
of classroom hours, so you
can use it after class, on
weekends, and on nights when
no classes are scheduled in
it. It is a Macintosh-based
facility with CD burners on
each machine (14 machines
total). Buy several CD-RW
disks to save work you do
in class.
Text and Image
counts as an elective in the
MA in English and the MA in
Writing, and also counts as
an elective for the MA in
New Media Studies.
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Document
Your Language Proficiency!
DePaul's
Academic Resource Center will begin
offering placement tests in foreign
languages for MA in English students
who want to document their study
of foreign languages for PhD programs
or for professional applications.
If you take the placement exams,
your score (and its equivalent in
years of study) will appear on your
MA transcript. You can document
proficiency in Arabic, Chinese,
French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian,
Japanese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish.
Please
see Professor Bartlett for further
details.
Conference
Opportunities!
Art for Art’s Sake!?:
The Political Currency of Literature,
Criticism, and Media Culture
The Second Annual Graduate Student
Conference hosted by the students
of the graduate English program
at the University of Cincinnati
Date: Nov 4 & 5 2005
more
info
Call for submissions and
members! The Ninth Annual
Conference of the Illinois Philological
Association will be held April 1-2,
2005 at Richmond Community College
in Decatur, IL. For more information,
check out their website
The Midwest Conference
on British Studies is proud
to announce that its fifty-first
annual meeting will be held at the
University of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, Indiana, Spetember 22-25,
2005. Proposals due April 15, 2005.
More
info including contact information
The 11th Annual Southwest
Graduate English Symposium:
"Isms, Irritants and Ideologies:
(In)Visible Violations of Power"
will be held March 25-27 at Arizona
State University in Tempe, Arizona.
more
info
Western
States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference
2005
October 20-22, 2005
San Francisco, CA
University of San Francisco
First Call for Proposals.
info
What
is the New Rhetoric?
University of Sydney, Australia:
September 2, 2005 to September 4,
2005.
Contact: Susan Thomas at susan.thomas@arts.usyd.edu.au
.
more
info
Originality,
Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary
Conference on Writing
September 23-25, 2005 at the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
info
Job
Opening: ITT
Technical Institute is
currently looking for English Composition
Teachers for Online Programs. more
info
Reading
Tutors Needed! CS&C-Julex
Learning is seeking experienced
candidates for their Reading Tutor
Position.
more info
Ph.D.
Programs!
English
Graduate Program Michigan State
University PhD Program
The PhD program is flexible and
responsive to students’ research
interests. Students have the freedom
to organize a course of study oriented
toward completing the degree requirements
efficiently and maximizing their
professional training. To assist
students, the department of English
has established several doctoral
emphasis areas: Literatures of the
Americas, Medieval and Early Modern
Studies, Narrative Theory, Postcolonial
and Diaspora Studies, and Transatlantic
Modernities. More info –
www.english.msu.edu
Graduate
Study at the University of Tennessee
–
"We believe that the
Ph.D. in English and the Ph.D. with
Creative Dissertation offer outstanding
training in the many facets of our
discipline. In addition to breadth
of faculty expertise, we have been
cultivating particular areas of
strength in Medieval and Renaissance
studies, Modern and Contemporary
Literature and Culture, and Rhetoric
and Composition, as well as other
nexus points of research. Our nationally
recognized faculty work closely
with graduate students, providing
excellent instruction, mentoring
relationships, and research opportunities
that develop the intellectual and
professional potential of our students.
"Our Website
explains more about who we are
and how we support our students,
financially and intellectually,
in all of our M.A. and Ph.D. programs."
Looking
for a PhD program in Rhetoric and
Writing? The
Bowling Green State University Rhetoric
& Writing PhD Program seeks
to prepare women and men to be scholar-teachers
who understand the professional
synergy of mastering knowledge,
advancing it through their own inquiry,
and sharing knowledge and habits
of inquiry with students in the
writing courses they teach and administer.
In
pursuing this broad goal, students
and faculty in the program utilize
a range of the
intellectual approaches (rhetorical,
cultural, empirical, political)
that characterize the field of rhetoric
and composition. For more information,
check out the program's
website
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