Category: Teaching

  • Continued Education in Chicago: Ellen Mueller (’14) on her Internship with The Odyssey Project

    I began the Odyssey Project internship knowing its reputation for being a choose-your-own adventure process and an exercise in multitasking. I left the summer feeling like the internship had transformed in ways I never had imagined. Unlike the interns before me, I didn’t teach a class as part of my summer internship, but I was,…

  • 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…

  • Volunteer for Learnapalooza! This Sunday in Logan Square!

      What is Learnapalooza? It’s a community-based festival offering free workshops and classes lead by volunteers and hosted by local businesses. This year’s Logan Square Learnapalooza takes place on Sunday, September 22 all day in various Logan Square locations.  Classes include:

  • Greg Langen on The Odyssey Project Internship: Freedom and its Discontents

    Check out MAPH Alumnus Greg Langen’s (’13) reflections on his internship at the Odyssey Project. Also be sure to see the Odyssey Project’s latest issue of In Medias Res, edited by Greg Langen.    A liberal arts education is, on the graduation speech level, freedom granting. With the powers of critical thinking and a strong (passable) handle…

  • Project on Civic Reflection – The Reflection

    Tim Fosbury, MAPH ’12, reflections on the MAPH year and his internship at the Project on Civic Reflection. Two phrases stick out in my mind from my MAPH year. First is David Wray’s assertion, during one of our first core lectures no less, that we could expect MAPH to be a sort of “P90X for…

  • The Odyssey Project: Anna Burch and Marybeth Southard (MAPH ’12) reflect on their internships

    I first heard about the Odyssey Project during a “What am I going to do with my life?” conversation with Hilary Strang, who teaches Critical Thinking and Writing to Odyssey students. To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what I was getting into, other than what I knew from the description on the Illinois Humanities…

  • Meet an Alum: Anna Piepmeyer

    Anna Piepmeyer graduated from MAPH in 2007.  She thought she had a pretty clear idea of what came after the Program.  “Like most people, I had assumed it was a PhD and that I’d be an English professor,” she told me during a phone conversation.  Anna spent the first half of the year thinking “I…

  • Missing your coursework? Take a class from a MAPHer!

    MAPH alum Hallie Palladino is teaching a six-week playwriting class through Loyola Continuum. Have you been putting your writing on the back burner and you’re looking for a way to push yourself back into it? Do you have an idea that would make a great one-act play? Or maybe you know someone else who might…

  • MAPH Alum Anna Piepmeyer: Awesome and Nerdy

    Anna Piepmeyer (MAPH ’07) is the Ambassador of Awesomeness for the new peer networking site, Dweeber (think of her as the equivalent to Tom of MySpace; if you join the site, she is automatically your friend). This site, however, distances itself from other peer networking sites, sites that usually serve as distractions to things like…

  • So you want to teach…

    MAPH Alum Kristin Scott shares her very insightful advice on how to get your foot in the door when applying for teaching positions. Thanks Kristin! Some advice for new MAPH graduates and those looking for their first teaching positions: Over the last couple of years, I’ve had a few folks come my way asking about…