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:
Dec 3:
'IN' grades issued Winter 2009 lapse to 'F' grades, 'R' grades issued Autumn 2008 lapse to 'F' grades
Jan 2: First Day of Saturday Winter Quarter Classes
Jan 4: First Day of Winter Quarter Classes
Jan 10: Last day to add Winter Quarter classes
Upcoming Events and News:
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.
Open Books Grand Opening Event with Michael Kadela
Michael Kadela (MAE '09) will be participating in a poetry panel, moderated by Poetry Senior Editor, Don Share, at the grand opening of Open Books on Sunday, November 22nd at 5:00pm. 213 West Institute Place. For more information, click here.
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