Author: mwl89
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Danielle Simon, MAPH ’11, Wins Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize
Congratulations to Danielle Simon, a 2011 alum of MAPH and current PhD candidate in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, for being awarded one of this year’s Rome Prizes by the American Academy in Rome! This fellowship will provide her the opportunity to do independent work in the arts and humanities as a…
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My MAPH Internship Experience – Torch Fellowship with Universidad Popular, by Rachel Kamins
Each year, MAPH Partners with several Chicago cultural, literary, and non-profit organizations to provide paid summer internships designed specifically for MAPH students. One of these opportunities, the Torch Fellowship, gives students the opportunity to reach out to an organization of their choice to propose a summer internship project. This fellowship, named in honor of Rafael Torch, writer, teacher…
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My MAPH Internship Experience — Newberry Library, by Ikumi Crocoll
A Summer at the Newberry Ikumi Crocoll I had been looking forward to the summer internships since I started MAPH. There are, of course, many amazing organizations to work with, but, as someone with a previous library degree, I had my eye on the Newberry Library from the start. My summer experience there did not…
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Michael Robbins’ Poetry Reviewed in n+1
Michael Robbins, whose poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Harper’s, and Boston Review among other places, graduated from MAPH in 2004. His MAPH thesis focused on lyric subjectivity after language poetry. He has since earned a PhD in English from UChicago, published two books, and published critical articles and continues to teach creative writing. Frank Guam just…