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Welcome Back from the Department Chair
Dear English Department students, Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-2025 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as Chair of the English Department. I return for my second year leading the department, rejoining an amazing group of…

Composing Disability: A Cultural History of Disability
[UPDATE: This event has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information will be forthcoming!] Composing Disability returns to George Washington University this semester with a celebration of the publication of A Cultural History of Disability. The six volumes focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth…

UPDATED: Jewish Literature Live is Back: Spring 2015 Schedule
Sandra Bernhard returns to Jewish Literature Live to begin the semester on Thursday, January 22 UPDATE: Sandra Bernhard’s schedule now requires her to stay in Los Angeles for rehearsals of four episodes of Two Broke Girls. It will be great to see her on the show, but it unfortunately means that her appearance is cancelled for…

Reassessing the Theater of the Absurd
What are you waiting for? Come to Michael Bennett’s talk! Prof. Michael Bennett (BA ’02) will be returning to GW this week to speak about his book Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd. His talk, on Tuesday, March 27 at 10:30 a.m. in Rome Hall 663, is open to all. Bennett is Assistant Professor of English…

Stephen Greenblatt is coming to GW
Although all of the Inauguration Festivities are likely in their own way to be worth attending, allow me to call your attention to two that you will not want to miss, both of them on Wednesday November 14. 1. “Cultural Mobility: The Travels of Shakespeare’s Cardenio” by Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English, Harvard University. In…

Final Nadeem Aslam Event Monday!
A reminder that this Monday evening the English Department will be sponsoring a panel discussion, FICTION AND SURVIVAL: IMAGINATION, MIGRATION, AND DIASPORA, featuring Nadeem Aslam, H. G. Carrillo, and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman. Nadeem Aslam is our inaugural British Council U.K. Writer in Residence; H. G. Carrillo teaches Creative Writing here at GW; Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a…