Department of English
Faculty News
News
Mary Hilbert of Professor Ted Anton's Writing for Magazines graduate course published an article in the Southtown Star (of the Sun Times News
Group).
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Bayo Ojikutu will be participating in a reading at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference at the Chicago Hilton, Feb 12-Feb 15 2009:
Chicago's Global Voices: Other Voices Magazine Celebrates the "New" City
Friday, February 13
4:30-5:45 pm
Chicago Hilton, Wiliford C
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Sean P. Murphy just published an edited collection of essays titled Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life with the MLA Press. Order now.
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Chris Green, a visiting fellow at DePaul University’s Humanities Center, has invited seventy-five acclaimed poets in Chicago to contribute to an anthology honoring the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The anthology is titled, A Writersʼ Congress: Chicago Poets on the Inauguration of Barack Obama. The collection will include a variety of well-known writers, including Richard Jones, Stuart Dybek, Kevin Coval, Elise Paschen, Marc Smith, Reginald Gibbons, Judy Valente, Haki Madhubuti, and Luis Alberto Urrea. The book celebrates an historic election and honors a president committed to social change.
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Nathan A. Breen will be leading a Spring Consortium Graduate Seminar for The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies' Spring 2009 Programs.
Titled The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: The Junius Manuscript, students will translate selections from the four Old English poems in manuscript Junius 11 (Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan), with an eye toward the functions of poetry based on Biblical translations in Ango-Saxon England. Participants will read critical essays concerning the literary and cultural elements of the manuscript, and in addition, they will become familiar with the Junius MS, its owner and its history, by examining facsimile editions, particularly Israel Gollancz's 1927 facsimile edition in the Newberry's collection, and books written or edited by Franciscus Junius, also held at the Newberry.