English Club
CUC’s English Club presents an opportunity for majors and non-majors alike to come together over good books. We hold on-campus coffee hours, attend campus readings and productions, and travel to literary events happening in Chicago. English Club began in 2011. Check out our ongoing discussions and announcements on Facebook.
Events
In our first year, we
- heard a night of W.B. Yeats’s poetry at the Poetry Foundation in downtown Chicago
- held a talk-back to the theater department’s productions of Julius Caesar and String
- travelled throughout the city to see Professor Jayme McGhan’s The Fisherman, An Illiad, and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
- attended on-campus poetry readings and held coffee hours
- talked with the managing editor of Triquaterly Online
For the upcoming 2012-2013 academic year, we are planning to
- see Shakespeare’s Richard III at the Oak Park Festival
- see a show at Steppenwolf
- attend an open-mic night at a local writers’ series
- attend a screening of The Great Gatsby
- hold discussions on literature, graduate school, and professional opportunities
Newsletter
Bookends and Bindings, the newsletter of the English Department, chronicles these events and the achievements of our students and faculty:
Volume 1 Issue 1(Summer 2011)
Volume 1 Issue 2 (Fall 2011)
Volume 1 Issue 3 (Winter 2012)
Volume 1 Issue 4 (Spring 2012)
Email Jennifer.Smith@cuchicago.edu for more information about the English Club.