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Senior Mary Ellen Dingley won this year’s AAP Prize. This year’s Academy of American Poets College Prize at GW has been awarded to Mary Ellen Dingley. Founded in 1934, the Academy supports poets in all stages of their careers and works to foster an appreciation of contemporary poetry. The judges–Profs. Jane Shore, Mary-Sherman Willis,…
¡Quejío!: Shout!’ (Suhayl Saadi, October 13)
Suhayl Saadi describes his talk on Monday, October 13, 2008; 8:15 p.m. (Media and Public Affairs Building. Room B07, 801 21st NW at H St NW, Washington, D.C. ) thus:¡Quejío!: Shout!’ A partial understanding of the interweaving ontologies of language, memory, time and place forms the basis of any creative literary endeavour. Mapping this process…
Fresh-Baked English Links
Our sidebar has grown quite long, lengthened by the occasional poll, a request for feedback, and list of department supporters. Scrolling the entire length of our sidebar can be a daunting task, so let me call attention to a few promising sections in which you might be interested, and to which you will hopefully contribute….
Howard Jacobson’s Newest Novel
Lots of us remember last year’s visit to GW of English novelist Howard Jacobson, our 3rd British Council U.K. Writer-in-Residence, and author of the witty and wonderful Kalooki Nights. Well, the “Jewish Jane Austen” (or, as he might prefer, “English Woody Allen”) has a new novel, The Finkler Question, recently published in Britain. Click here…
The Short Story & the Truth Behind Grad School: Talking to Magali Armillas-Tiseyra
You know that graduate school is getting to you when teaching a summer course is considered a “break.” While working on her dissertation on the dictator novel in Latin American and Franco- and Anglophone African literatures, GW alumna and current NYU graduate student Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, decided it would be good to slow down this summer…