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A monthly update on events, opportunities, student and faculty accomplishments,
and other goings-on at the Loyola English Department

Announcements

The Loyola Community Literacy Center will be beginning its 30th year of service to the Rogers Park community and is now recruiting student-tutors for the Fall 2021 semester. 

The learners are neighborhood adults, most of whom are non-native English speakers who have immigrated to or sought refuge in the United States and are eager to improve their English skills and become active members of their new community. Loyola student-tutors learn about the cultures that thrive in Rogers Park, make friends from other countries, and take an active role in serving others and practicing Jesuit values.

The Literacy Center has been conducting tutoring online this year and has provisional plans in place to operate both online and in person in Loyola Hall in the coming semester. Students can volunteer or take a course for credit, and need no previous tutoring experience. They will able to earn Core credit by enrolling for three credit hours in English 393 or Honors 290, which are open to second-semester freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.  When taken for three credit hours, the courses satisfy the Core Engaged Learning-Service Learning Internship requirement.  The only prerequisite is UCWR 110. More information can be found here.


As of March 29th, all Loyola faculty and staff are eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This includes teaching graduate students and other student workers such as teaching assistants and residence hall assistants. Undergraduate students and graduate students who are not teaching will be eligible to receive the vaccine in Phase 2, which experts predict will begin in Chicago on May 1. More information and resources are available here.
Events

Meeting Grounds: Mutual Ethics and Action in Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, and Posthumanism

Critical Workshop: Friday, 4/23, 1:00 PM CDT, to be conducted via Zoom
Virtual Symposium: Saturday, 4/24, 9:30 AM CDT, to be conducted via Zoom


Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, and Posthumanism meet in the space created by urgent cries for a better world.

In this virtual symposium, Dr. Joshua Bennett and Dr. Kath Weston will address our linked desires for actionable ethics generated across these fields. By uniting through our shared stakes, we hope to develop a more ethical orientation and practice for our writing, our teaching, and our larger communities.

These two keynote panels will also feature three respondents and a period of Q&A. Attendance is free and open to the public, but registration is required.


Symposium Registration

Critical Workshop Details
Department Achievements
Students
  • Lydia Craig has been awarded Best Paper in the Humanities at the 14th Annual GSAC Graduate Student Research Symposium for “Library Lane: Digitally Discovering A Lost American Impressionist Painting.” The paper and presentation document her investigation into the origins of a painting found on the curb using textual studies methods and digital resources. The abstract and presentation can be viewed here. Congratulations, Lydia!
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Chicago, IL 60660-1537






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