Graduate Student Resources

Here students can find helpful links to libraries, literary resources on the web, writing and research tools, and other paths to useful information.

Professional Organizations

NU Electronic Resource Page
NU Desk Reference Tools - includes OED, Roger's Thesaurus, Britannica Online, Bartlett's Quotations, phone books, and more
My Virtual Reference Desk - Whoa! Somebody did a lot of work on this site! Complete reference and news site.
WWWebster Dictionary
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition - from the University of Chicago's ARTFUL Project

The Writing Place - Northwestern University's writing resource center.

The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus
Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival
Creative Writing students congregate at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern
Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert