Author: Jessica Haley
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Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel
If you live in Chicago, you may already know about next week’s Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel. The festival, which runs from May 9-11, will feature screenings, concerts, talks, art installations, talks, performances, oral histories–all celebrating the incomparable Studs Terkel.* There has been a lot of attention surrounding “Reinventing Radio – An Evening…
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“The Nervous Writer” by Steven Flores (MAPH ’10) in Contrary
A guest post by Jeff McMahon, MAPH Writing Advisor (MAPH ‘ 02) S.W. (Steven) Flores (MAPH ’10) has a story in the current issue of Contrary that satirizes creative writing workshops at their less than optimum. Flores is a second-year MFA student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His story is in no way reflective of the UW-Madison…
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Stephen Tapert (MAPH ’02) Announces Book and Exhibition at The Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin
Film historian, writer, and filmmaker Stephen Tapert, who earned his M.A. from The University of Chicago in 2002 and later worked at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is set to curate his first exhibition at the world’s largest film museum: The Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, Italy.
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LA MAPHers: Catch Young Joon Kwak’s (MAPH ’10) MFA Thesis Exhibition TODAY!
Today is the last day to see the exhibition! You can also see some of Young Joon’s work in Issue 1 of Colloquium. Mutant Salon: Who Are Worth Our Love Young Joon Kwak MFA Thesis Exhibition March 11 – March 17, 2014 Mutant Salon: Who Are Worth Our Love will present new sculpture, photo, video, performance,…
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Marooned! with Matt and Bill
Download Marooned! with Matt & Bill, a new podcast by and for graduate students. It’s about graduate student life and all things academic. Features Bill Hutchison (MAPH ’12) and Matt Hauske (current MAPH preceptor). Free on iTunes – leave a review!
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AWP 2014: On Giving/Getting Permission
“Find the place that scares you most and run to it.” — Eric McMillan (MAPH ‘10) on writing and, well, life Last night, while leading eight current MAPH creative writers on an uphill March from the Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center to Von Trapp’s in Capitol Hill, I was marveling (aloud, perhaps unfortunately for my…
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Alumni Blog Spotlight: Selective Viewing by Kate Blair
Kate Blair (MAPH ’13) writes about her continuing exploration of film, video, and other visual media on her blog Selective Viewing. It includes reviews and
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MLA Meet-up! Come have a drink with us Saturday.
The MLA Convention begins tomorrow in Downtown Chicago. This means that many of you will be in town
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Archivist as Gatekeeper: Liisa Freeh (’13) on the MAPH Internship at the Newberry Library
My experience in MAPH taught me the relevance of archival work and the way it breathes life into the arguments I want to make in my field. My MAPH internship made me a participant, a gatekeeper, in that archival work. As an intern in the Department of Special Collections at the Newberry Library, I have been…
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Blurred Lines*: A Critical Examination of the Trans/Cis Dichotomy
a guest post by Nicole Rea, MAPH’s 2013 recipient of the Rafael Torch Memorial Fellowship “What makes you interested in transgender issues?” “So then, are you cis or are you trans?” As a woman perceived to be “cis” doing work that centers on issues faced by the transgender community, these are questions that I’m asked…