150 Scholars Gather for “Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After,” June 4-7, 2013
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Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 |
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Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 Inauguration Library of Congress – Civil War photos – Item 96511712 |
The idea for Open Space came up after a department meeting earlier this semester when Professor David McAleavey noted that undergraduate poets had no public venue on GW to share their poems. Recent public poetry projects for National Poetry Month like “Rent-a-Poet” and the “Poem of the Day” series, which was organized by Professors Thea…
Professor Faye Moskowitz LUNCHTIME LECTURE Patchwork Quilts and the Jewish Concept of the Kapore GW ALUMNI HOUSE, 1918 F STREET, NW Wednesday, September 17, 12 PM Faye Moskowitz, a professor in GW’s English Department, will discuss and read from her essay “And the Bridge is Love.” Moskowitz uses an antique patchwork quilt to illustrate the Jewish concept of…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Claudia Rankine Join us on Monday, April 11th at 7:30PM in Gelman 702 for the next installment of The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Claudia Rankine, who will read from her new book, Citizen: An American Lyric. Her new work won both the PEN Open…
October and early November are chock-a-block with English department or English-affiliated programming. Mark your calendars now for these upcoming events. October 4: E. Patrick Johnson The Northwestern University Professor and performer E. Patrick Johnson visits GW during the run of his critically acclaimed one-man show “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” at Arlington’s…
Join GW English and Creative Writing next Thursday at 7:30 PM for a reading by Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang. Professor Chang joined our faculty this year and teaches poetry in the Creative Writing Program. Check out our interview with her from last May here. And see you at the Honors Townhouse next week! Share on…
Beverly Lowry, author of Who Killed These Girls? will read on February 22nd at 7:30 PM in Gelman Library, Room 702 as the next installation of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series. From Penguin Random House: ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BEVERLY LOWRY is the author of six novels and three previous works of nonfiction. Her writing has…