Author: jshanahan

Mihaela reports: The second event in a tentative three-part series of One Book One Chicago programming at DePaul took place on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, on the Lincoln Park campus and paired a screening of Jessica Edward’s film Mavis! with a special appearance by Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune music critic and author of I’ll Take You There.

The event was hosted by the English Department, and Professor Francesca Royster moderated the Q&A session at the end of the evening. The discussion covered many subjects as Kot touched on a variety of topics: the difficulty of describing music in layman’s… Read more

Mihaela reports: With the help of more than twenty community partners, the Chicago Public Library’s One Book One Chicago program has focused on expanding citywide community relations through events that facilitate learning and engagement not only with the OBOC selection but also with a book related theme essential to the lives of all Chicagoans.

DePaul University’s English Department has a longstanding partnership with OBOC. This winter quarter, Professor Francesca Royster of the English Department is teaching an undergraduate course exploring the current season’s selection,… Read more

Reading Chicago Reading (RCR) co-PIs Robin Burke, Ana Lucic, John Shanahan, and Megan Bernal will be conducting a workshop at the twelfth annual meeting of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS). The meeting takes place November 17-19, 2017, at the Illinois Tech downtown campus and brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities and to explore and identify new pathways of inquiry and perspectives for future research.

The workshop, Mining Diverse Texts for Location and … Read more